Laboratory Courier

Job Title: Laboratory Courier

Salary: £21,500 - £25,000 pro rata

Location: East Anglia inc. Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: 10 hours, Friday’s

Your role and responsibilities

The Laboratory Courier is the face of Dick White Referrals to all our external clients and is a key part of our Laboratory team. This role is responsible for collecting samples from a regular route of veterinary practices across East Anglia (including Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk).

The position is working every Friday for up to 10 hours, starting at 14:00. No weekends or bank holidays are required. Flexibility to cover staff annual leave/sickness is desirable. Paid overtime is available where necessary

Key Skills

• Collect and deliver samples in a well organised, timely and professional manner
• Careful and up to date record keeping
• Maintain vehicle cleanliness, internally and externally
• Carry out daily and weekly vehicle checks performing general maintenance tasks including checking oil, tyre pressures etc
• Report any vehicle faults or defects immediately
• Represent DWR in a friendly and professional manner
• Cover colleagues' routes when they are on annual leave
• Follow and abide by all road laws and legislation at all times
• Drive in a professional and courteous manner.

Essential

• Full, clean driving license
• Ability to use satellite navigation systems and plan routes effectively.

Preferred

• Previous driving experience of a similar role is preferred although not essential
• Some light mechanical knowledge would be ideal e.g., changing bulbs, checking oil levels, changing tyres etc.

Personal Attributes

• Passion for people and pets
• A team player
• Enthusiastic, positive, and determined
• Reliable and flexible to changes in routes
• Friendly with colleagues and clients
• Ability to work alone
• Organised with a good level of customer care.

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

Dick White Referrals (DWR) is one of the largest specialist multi-disciplinary veterinary referral centres in Europe, offering outstanding levels of clinical care in state-of-the-art facilities. Our dedicated vets, nurses, and nursing assistants, supported by the client care teams and are committed to providing the highest quality surgical and medical care for pets. Many of our clinicians are nationally or internationally recognised specialists in their field and bring unique experiences to care for pets.

We accept referrals in Anaesthesia, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Dermatology, Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency and Critical Care, Internal Medicine Neurology and Neurosurgery, Oncology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physiotherapy and Soft Tissue Surgery. We have comprehensive and established clinical and non-clinical programmes for training, development, and CPD.

If you would like to apply for this position or discuss in more detail please contact sophie.taylor@antechmail.com

Part of an amazing global family

Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition Specialist at sophie.taylor@antechmail.com