Receptionist / Client Care Team Member

If you are a current Linnaeus Associate, you will need to apply internally. In order to do this, please contact our Talent Acquisition team (details can be found via The Link) and someone will be in touch to discuss and progress your application.

Due to ongoing growth, we are inviting applications for an experienced Receptionist/Client Care Team Member to join our team at Wear Referrals.

This is a genuine opportunity for candidates with extensive high-level reception experience gained in a busy and challenging professional environment to join a successful and growing business with scope for career development for the right candidate. A customer service qualification is preferred.

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to:)

• Welcoming clients and their pets in a warm, professional manner.
• Managing the diary; booking in appointments and surgical procedures.
• Answering a range of client questions via email and telephone.
• Pro-active communication between clients and colleagues to ensure the day runs smoothly.
• Administration duties e.g. scanning paperwork, filling in forms etc.
• Processing prescription requests.
• Taking payments.
• Promoting offers and services.
• Ensuring that reception is clean and well-stocked.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in a similar high-pressure client care environment, be organised, smart and professional in appearance, detail orientated, committed to excellent customer service and able to commit to a shift-based role. Client Care Team Members are required to wear a corporate uniform and be able to sit and stand for long periods to cover the reception area and the back office, aside from scheduled breaks.

This is a full-time position working 40hrs/week over 5 days, Monday to Sunday, shifts between 7am -10pm.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Private healthcare
• Staff discounts
• 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

Wear Referrals is a multi-disciplinary, specialist veterinary referral hospital in the North East of England, close to the historic university city of Durham, the thriving city of Newcastle, and set between the northeast coast and the Pennines. The hospital is also within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and Scotland.

Our specialist services include neurology, orthopaedics, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, anaesthesia, oncology, diagnostic imaging and cardiology, a busy primary care out-of-hours emergency service, in-house hydrotherapy.

Our team of 150 staff includes 17 European/RCVS Specialists and 70 registered veterinary nurses. We have an established internship programme and residency programmes in surgery, internal medicine and oncology; additionally, we are accredited as a training venue and examination centre for veterinary nurse training.

Wear Referrals is part of Linnaeus and Mars Veterinary Health, the largest family-owned veterinary company in the world. Being privately owned, we can truly be driven by our purpose, to create a better world, and think long-term as opposed to being focused solely on short-term profits.

At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people. Our Associates are over 6000 strong and empowered to speak up, step up and deliver quality services. You’ll have access to a huge network of specialists, worldwide development opportunities and an easily accessible, comprehensive wellbeing package that prioritises your physical and mental health, allowing you to focus on what you do best – care for pets.

We are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse, we care about you and want you to be authentic, with everything you need to perform at your best. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to achieve our purpose.

All applications with the relevant skills and qualifications will be carefully considered. If you need any support in completing your application or simply want to find out more about Wear Referrals, Linnaeus or the role, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at ***email_hidden***.