Operations Support Manager – Make a difference across our Veterinary Network

Are you an experienced operations professional with Veterinary or Healthcare experience, who thrives on being out in the field, solving problems and helping teams perform at their best?

We’re looking for an Operations Support Manager to become a trusted operational partner to our veterinary clinics, working closely with Partners, Lead Vets and the wider network team to keep our practices running smoothly, efficiently and consistently.

This is a varied, fast-paced role where no two days are the same. From supporting recruitment and onboarding, building effective rotas and resolving operational challenges, to overseeing compliance, facilities and resource planning, you’ll play a vital role in making sure our clinics have the support they need to deliver an excellent experience for their teams, clients and patients.

The Ops Support Manager is the key liaison for day-to-day clinic operations, ensuring timely resolution of issues and proactive support for our Partners and Lead Vets.

This role has no direct line management responsibility, but supports the clinics by maintaining operational excellence, coordinating recruitment and onboarding, resource planning and rotas, management of maintenance issues and ensuring compliance across all assigned clinics.

Working closely with the Network Administrator and wider network team, the Ops Support Manager drives consistency, responsiveness, and high standards across the network. They support local Practice Managers with support from their assigned clinics as required for the 24hr clinics.

This role works on a rotation (including approximately 1 in 6 weekends), ensuring the network is always covered for any requests over the weekend by at least one Ops Support Manager.

• Visit each clinic at least fortnightly, acting as the primary contact for clinics, supporting operational queries for Partners and Lead Vets, escalating to Network Partner and Network Director as required.
• Support cascade of actionable communications from the centre to the clinics.
• Ensure clinic teams are logging complaints and resolving them effectively within 15 days, liaising with Head of Ops Admin as required.
• Ensure clinics are holding meetings covering critical topics and effectively communicating as a team.
• Support clinics by ensuring transfers are managed effectively between hub & spokes and referral centres.
• Escalate risks and opportunities to Network Partner/ Network Director.

• Action recruitment requests and organise interviews under the direction of the Partner, Lead Vet, Network Partner and Network Director.
• Ensure clinic team are supported with setting up new starters on schedules and training is completed with an excellent onboarding experience.
• Coordinate BP launch days and support onboarding activities.

• Complete and maintain clinic rotas 6 months in advance, in collaboration with the Network Administrator.
• Create and manage ongoing changes to schedules, ensuring the clinics are fully covered, requesting locum cover as required from Network Administrator.
• Support Network Administrators in scheduling BH and weekend cover for hubs and runs across network.
• Track and process leave requests and absences on Workday, once approved by the Partner or Lead Vet, arranging cover and liaising with Network Administrator to support.
• Ensure accurate payroll submission, including outstanding timesheets, approval of locally agreed overtime rates, one-time payments and cross-branch working.
• Check Workday dashboard daily for notifications or tasks to be actioned.

• Support with logging and managing maintenance jobs as required by the clinics.
• Support clinics in event of incidents and crisis management, escalating issues to Network Partner/ Director, as required.
• Oversee accommodation administration, ensuring smooth operations and issue resolution.

• Check H&S actions are completed in time across all assigned clinics, against Evotix records, including:

• Radiation and laser safety
• Risk assessments (RA)
• Visitor logs
• Fire safety
• Accident and incident reporting
• First aid…