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Job Title: Client Care Coordinator (Veterinary Receptionist)

Salary: £11.56 per hour

Location: Cromwell Vets, Huntingdon

Job Type: Permanent , Part-time

Hours: 40 hours per week, 5 Days per week, 1 weekend shift per month. Bank holidays on a shared rota.

We're looking for a dedicated individual to join our amazing team at Cromwell Vets as a Client Care Assistant.

At Cromwell Vets we pride ourselves on our excellent standards for patient and client care and rely on our client co-ordinators to help promote this.

Your role and responsibilities

• Answering the phone in a polite and friendly manner, dealing with any enquiries and booking appropriate appointments, using our in-house system.

• Managing the diaries effectively and ensure the smooth running of vets and nurses consults.

• Helping to assist with administrative duties including answering email enquiries and online booking requests.

• Taking payments over the phone.

• Transferring calls to the appropriate person.

• Have a clear speaking voice and be empathetic and sensitive at certain situations.

• Have a full clean driving license - Required to cover across our branches as Required

Personal Specification

• Previous Customer facing experience

• Strong administration and organisation skills

• Confident using the telephone

• Reception or Client Care experience

• Cash handling and till operation

• Previous experience of working in a veterinary/doctors surgery (Desirable)

• IT skills – confident in the use of Word, Excel and Outlook as a minimum

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave

• Career progression opportunities

• Staff discount schemes

• Life Assurance

• Enhanced sickness pay

• Enhanced equal family leave

• E-car salary sacrifice scheme

• Employer contribution pension scheme  

• Wellness program including:

  • Employee assistance program

  • Eyecare voucher scheme

  • Free annual Flu jab

  • Cycle to work scheme

• Recruitment referral reward scheme

About Us

Established over 100 years ago, Cromwell Vets offer primary care services for small animals within the county of Cambridgeshire.

We provide a comprehensive diagnostics service as well as a 24-hour emergency care service that is available 365 day of the year to care of our patients at any time.

Our team is immensely proud of their work and keeping up with the heritage of caring for Cambridgeshire’s loveable pets.

To submit your application, please click the 'Apply now' button at the top of the screen. Or, for any questions, contact Katie Riley on katie[email protected] 

Salary Value: £11.56 per hour;

We are proud to be Linnaeus, part of Mars.

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking group of highly respected primary care and specialist referral practices in the UK and Ireland. Being family owned and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the largest veterinary company in the world, allows us to focus on advancing the veterinary profession to provide industry-leading pet care and unique career opportunities for our people.

Why Linnaeus?

-    We pride ourselves in offering high-quality excellence of service and clinical care for our clients and their pets

-    We lead on sustainability and collectively drive positive change for people, pets and the planet

-    We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing – valuing equity, diversity and inclusion

-    We support your personal and professional development with best-in-class career frameworks and training programmes. We will empower and support you to grow your career from day one.

We team up within our Mars family in partnership for a stronger future.

Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We treat each other fairly and equitably and we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our Associates.

At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people.

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button or for more information or please reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]