Belvoir Vets

21/06/2024

Congratulations to Sarah for not just passing her Animal Care and Welfare Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship, but getting Distinction!

Lots of hard work both in the practice and in her own time has paid off and the next step is beginning her Veterinary Nurse training with us in September.

14/06/2024

***JOB OPPORTUNITY ***

At Belvoir Vets, we are looking to expand our nursing team with an additional Patient Care Assistant. We are the only independent vets in Grantham, having opened in October 2021 and are growing rapidly.

We are a happy team of 20; reception, nurses and vets. We were Petplan Practice of the year finalists in 2024. In short, the practice is flying, so jump in and enjoy the ride!

The recently converted premises have a lovely airy, but homely feel with sofas in consult rooms and separate cat and dog waiting areas. We have a diagnostics suite and large theatre; we have a significant ops load including Laparoscopic and Orthopaedic procedures.

We value our Patient Care Assistants as these are a vital cog in the machine to keep everything running smoothly. You will be involved in caring for animal patients, preparing theatre for ops, cleaning instruments, running lab samples, reception duties and dealing with orders

We are looking for a full-time position over 4-5 weekdays with 1 in 3 Saturday mornings from 8.30am to 1.30pm.
Salary expectation for 39 hours per week £23,200.
5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays pro rata and overtime is always paid or taken as toil.
We don’t offer a bonus scheme because instead we want everyone to share in how the practice is doing. As we grow and the practice does well this will be reflected in the salaries paid to everyone that is part of that success.
Give us a call on 01476 848443 for a confidential chat with any of our team or alternatively please email your CV and a little information about yourself to [email protected]
Applications close on 30th June 2024

06/06/2024

Gordon is here to remind you....
"ALL CATS NEED TO BE MICROCHIPPED BY 10TH JUNE 2024"

Owners could face a £500 fine for unmicrochipped cats after this date

Microchips can prove ownership, they can allow animals and owners to be reunited and our microchips also allow the temperature to be checked without using a traditional re**al thermometer (so most cats will be happy about that 😜)

06/06/2024

We partnered with Belvoir Vets to support our pet friendly community with a 10% discount for customers while their friends are being cared for. Relax and refresh with a bite to eat or a drink at the bar 🐰🐱🐶

Check out the website: tinyurl.com/MCGrantham

⚠ T&C's ⚠

🐾A 10% discount will be offered to all Guests of Belvoir Vets Grantham whilst using their services.

🐾The discount must be used on the same day that the guest is using Belvoir Vet Services.

🐾A signed receipt as proof of services with the correct date must be obtained from the vets and presented upon payment at Miller and Carter Grantham to be entitled to the discount.

🐾The discount will cover the Bar for drinks only, as well as Food for guests dining in the Restaurant/outside Dining Area.

🐾The offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other Miller and Carter discounts or offers.

🐾The offer cannot be used in conjunction with our set menus including but not limited to the Fixed Price Menu, Signature Set Menu, and Occasional Menus.

🐾The offer will be valid to use between the times of 12noon-6:30pm from Monday to Friday.

🐾The offer cannot be used on days where the Vets is closed.

02/06/2024

So proud of the Trickstars. Amazing gang of dogs and Lucy their handler and owner. These dogs are soooooo loved and give everything they've got to please.
Good luck. VOTE TRICKSTARS

20/05/2024

A big shout out to our amazing nursing team here at Belvoir Vets to celebrate Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month.
Our nursing team consists of a combination of Registered Veterinary Nurses: Melissa, Lucy, Wendy, Courtney and Karen
Student Veterinary Nurses: Tom and Laura
And our Patient Care Asisstant: Sarah.

Together they work extremely hard both behind the scenes and in nurse consultations.
Registered Veterinary Nurses monitor anaesthetics and sedation, care for our hospitalised patients and administer medications under the direction of the vets, they cuddle and care and cajol inappetant animals to eat, they run our blood samples, help with xrays, endoscopic, surgery and generally keep the vets organised!

The are such an important cog in the 'Veterinary machine' and we couldn't do it without them. Thank you

16/05/2024

INTRODUCING....RICHARD CURTIS
VETERINARY SURGEON

Prior to joining the veterinary world, Richard worked in accounting for 7 years after sixth form. During this time, he decided to pursue his dream to become a veterinary surgeon, returning to education alongside work to make this a reality.

After graduating from The University of Nottingham in 2022, Richard worked for a busy Leicestershire small animal practice providing both GP and out of hours emergency care until joining Belvoir Vets in April 2024.

Richard has a keen interest in surgery and emergency care and continues to develop his knowledge in these fields. Through consulting, he enjoys building relationships with clients and their pets.

Away from the practice, Richard enjoys hiking, music, painting miniatures, and horse riding. He lives locally with his fiancé Lucy and their 4 cats, Gordon, Bonnie, Mimi and Nori. He also owns a horse called Tas which he trained as a yearling.

29/04/2024

Some dogs (like Nalu here) just don't do being still and don't do rest.
We get it! This is why we offer the keyhole spaying technique.
With lower pain levels and tiny wounds dogs can be back out and walking just the day after the spaying procedure.
Nalu can't wait!

27/04/2024

And the winners of the Summer Photo competition are......
Dexter Armstrong for the Cats 👏👏👏👏👏

Bernie and Bear Hawkins for the Dogs 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Please come to the practice to claim your goodie hamper 😋
Thank you to all the entries, keep your eyes peeled as all the runner up photos are displayed in the consult rooms

23/04/2024

INTRODUCING......COURTENEY BALDING
REGISTERED VETERINARY NURSE

Courteney has been working in veterinary practice since 2016, qualifying as a registered veterinary nurse in 2019. She joined us in February 2024 and has worked primarily in small animal practice. Her main interest is surgery with her preferring to spend most of her time in theatre and aims to undertake the Advanced Veterinary Nursing Certificate in Surgery. Although surgery is her main interest Courteney also has a love of orthopaedics, particularly fracture repairs, and emergency & critical care.

Outside of work Courteney enjoys reading, crafting, puzzles, and swimming. She is a bit of a ‘nerd’ being a fan of the big named sci-fi and fantasy franchises. She also enjoys camping trips across the UK in the Land Rover with her partner, with a particular love for Scotland.
Courteney is proud to call herself an RVN and looks forward to caring for your pets.

20/04/2024

So nice to see our client Lucy with Strike, tempo, peach and trip on Britain's Got Talent. Rooting for you 🥇🥇🥇🥇

19/04/2024

**Belvoir Vets Home Visit Service**

We are excited to announce the beginning of a trial for a new service, beginning 9th May. We have recently acquired a van that you may see out and about, with the aim of providing a home visit service. This will begin at limited times in the week while we evolve it and see what demand there is but we hope to grow this and offer something a little different.

This service will be available for all routine appointments, from vaccines to illness and even end of life decisions. By being out in the van for a group of appointments we have aimed to reduce the cost of a normal home visit and as such this service will cost £60 with all other prices being the same as in the clinic.

To begin with we will be running this on Thursday mornings, beginning the 9th May. If you are interested in making an appointment please call as usual and the reception team will discuss options. We will be unable to give a specific time of the morning as the route we will take and order of appointments will be decided on the morning based on geographic location. We will aim to text 30 mins before arriving.

We hope this will help for those animals that really struggle with visiting a vets as well as for those clients with any transport difficulties, but also for where a lower stress home environment is just better for all.

17/04/2024

INTRODUCING.....BROOKE PARDY
CLIENT CARE ADVISOR

Brooke joined Belvoir Vets in February 2024. Previously, Brooke worked on the Endoscopy unit at the Rotherham Foundation Trust as a Clerical administrator. During her 3 years at the trust, Brooke gained extensive experience working with patients and their families both in person and on the phone.

Brooke recently moved to Lincolnshire full-time, to pursue a career working with animals. She is an accomplished horse rider, competing in show- jumping events all over the country. As well as her horse, Brooke has 2 miniature Jack Russell's Chico and Paul, who are her world.

Brooke looks forward to meeting you all and your pets!

14/04/2024

🏖🏖🏖 COMPETITION TIME 🏖🏖🏖

With the weather (finally) warming up. We would like to celebrate this with a little photo competition.

The title of the competition is "fun in the sun"

To enter please attach a photo of your pet having fun in the sun in the comments.

The 2 winners (one dog and one cat) will recieve a hamper of goodies!
Our favourite 12 photos will be displayed in our consult rooms over the summer.
Obviously by entering you are giving us permission to display your photo 😁
Please feel free to share as you don't need to be a registered client to enter.

Can't wait to see all the entries

10/04/2024

**Warning - graphic content **

Hetty the chicken was in today with an impacted crop. Joanna operated on a very wide awake Hetty using local anaesthetic only, with the biggest challenge being to keep Hetty from pecking at the grass being removed! Hetty was very interested in what was being done regardless and wasn't at all bothered by all of the impacted content being removed or the surgery. As you can imagine the fermented content was quite smelly!
Stitched up and now hopefully Hetty will be back to normal!

03/04/2024

It's Mylo's 15th Birthday Today! Happy Birthday from all of us at Belvoir Vets 🎂🥂🎊🎁. To celebrate he came for his monthly arthritis jab

02/04/2024

***We need your input***

We have recently been looking in to the possibility of acquiring a new in-house laboratory machine that will enable us to run a blood test called the Nu-Q Vet Cancer Screening test. This is a significant investment and we would like to find out if this would be of interest to our clients.
This is a blood test for dogs designed to screen for certain cancers, particularly in senior dogs aged 7 years and older and for breeds with a higher cancer risk such as Flat Coated Retrievers, Labrador Retrievers, French Bulldogs, and Golden Retrievers, to name a few. It is for otherwise healthy dogs rather than those who are ill and the results are based on a traffic light system of risk indicating if further investigation is required. It has been designed to give a low incidence of false positives but it will therefore miss some cases. This has been run for sometime in the USA and Germany but has been limited so far in the UK.

There are a lot of aspects to this blood test that would make it not suitable for all and if we were to proceed in acquiring this equipment much more information would be provided and it would be discussed individually. We would love to share more technical details for those who are interested but all of the information we have been given is vet practice specific!

At this stage we would like to gauge interest by asking you to complete the attached survey. We estimate the blood test would cost approximately £100 and would require a fasted blood sample at Belvoir Vets only.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J9SRZLX

27/03/2024

Wishing all our clients and their animals a very HAPPY EASTER 🐥🐣🐥🐣

We are closed on Good Friday 29th March
Open as normal Saturday 30th March 9am -12pm
We are closed Easter Sunday 31st and Easter Monday 1st April.
Open as normal from 8.30am onTuesday 2nd April.

For any out of hour concerns please use our vidivet service or ring Sutterton Veterinary Hospital on 01205 345345

26/03/2024

HRH Prince Monty snuggled up with his blanket and duckie today. We loved having him for cuddles 🫅🫅🫅🫅🫅

22/03/2024

So we had a wonderful night at the Petplan Awards. We didn't win Practice of the Year but to be finalists at such a prestigious awards was amazing. We all got a little bit starstruck with Claudia hosting and the band were amazing, so there was little bit of dancing too. Well done to House and Jackson and all the other amazing vet staff who won and to Mulberry House Vets and all the other finalists.

13/03/2024

After our Petplan Award news hit the Grantham Journal we have had some interesting comments about Cees based on the reporting. We'd like to confirm that Cees remains male and has not been replaced!
Also to help, Cees is a Dutch name and is pronounced "Case", although he will generally respond to anything from Cess, Cece, Cheese, Casie and even Kate this morning!

07/03/2024

We’re amazingly proud to announce that we are finalists in the 2024 Petplan Veterinary Awards for Practice of the Year!

To be named as one of 3 finalists for Practice of the Year having been open 2 years genuinely left us stunned. We were confident that how we work, the team we have and what we have created would work and to be nominated by our clients is a fantastic confirmation, but to then be judged by our peers as doing things well is a great affirmation and one that left the whole team grinning and feeling proud. Thank you to everyone who nominated us and wish us luck for the finals!

To read more about the awards and view all finalists, visit https://www.petplan.co.uk/about-petplan/vets/

We are a Independent Veterinary Practice in Grantham owned and run by two local vets Cees and Gemma

21/02/2024

Please beware thar the traffic is very heavy in and around Grantham this morning

13/02/2024

Sofa poses from this little trio today, patiently waiting for their vaccinations 💚💛🧡

06/02/2024

We helped welcome these gorgeous puppies to the world this morning. They were ready for the milk bar! Spring is in the air 🐶🌤🌼⚘️☘️

05/02/2024

The Belvoir Vets contribution to the Tub2Pub recycling campaign with proceeds to Macmillan Cancer support. We might quite like chocolates 😬

If you would like to help, empty tubs can be dropped off between 1 January and 11 February 2024 at any Greene King pub.

24/01/2024

Have you ever wondered what happens once you've signed the consent form and left your pet with us....

On Monday Flowers 💐 came for her neutering and microchip

🐱Firstly she had a clincial examination where her heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature was checked
🐱Next she had a cannula placed in the vein of her front leg to allow intravenous access. At this point she has an injection of pain relief
🐱Then she had a premed which is a mild sedation that is given prior to anaesthesia to help a smooth induction.
🐱Flowers was induced into anaesthesia with a propofol injection and then after local is sprayed into her larynx an Endotracheal breathing tube is inserted.
🐱Flowers is maintained under anaesthesia with a mixture of oxygen and isoflurane anaesthetic via the Endotracheal tube. She has her surgical area clipped and scrubbed to be aseptically prepared for surgery.
🐱Once transferred to theatre she is covered in a surgical drape and has her operation.
🐱Once the operation is completed and her sutures have been placed she starts to wake up from the anaesthetic, she has a medical pet shirt placed to stop her picking at her stitches
🐱On recovering from the anaesthetic she is reassured by our nursing team and then placed into the incubator to fully come round.
🐱Once awake she has a little lunch and will move to the cat ward until home time later in the afternoon.

23/01/2024

INTRODUCING.....Jenny Harper
CLIENT CARE ADVISOR

Jenny joined Belvoir Vets in October 2023 as a Client Care Advisor.

She retired from the NHS after a 35 year career including Adult and Peadiatric acute nursing, Health Visiting , specialising in a safeguarding role. During this time Jenny received a Queen’s Nurse Award and a Fellowship of The Institute of Health Visiting. She retired from the NHS in 2022. Jenny is looking forward to making everyone welcome and meeting all of your pets!

Jenny is married to Mark and they have two adult children.

She has a love of animals and has a Cockapoo called Alfie, a house cat called Albus Dumbledore, a tortoise called Sullivan and 5 hens.

Jenny enjoys walking, reading but especially open water swimming.

12/01/2024

Handsome Weasley was bossing it during his vaccine today and took full advantage of our sofa. Any Harry Potter fans can see where his name came from. The question is he more Fred or George? 🤔🧡🧙‍♂️

22/12/2023

Wishing all our clients a Very Merry Christmas and a huge thank you for all our gifts. You have been most kind and generous. Thank you all