Courier Six Mile Bottom, England
Job description
Courier
Salary: £22,000 – £25,000 pro rata (dependent on experience)
Location: Newmarket, Cambridge
Job Type: Permanent, part-time
Hours: 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday), plus paid overtime
Your role and responsibilities
The Laboratory Courier is the face of Dick White Referrals and Antech 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 Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough.
The position is working every Monday to Friday for up to 6 hours per day, starting at 16:30. 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.
Requirements For the Role
- Full, clean driving license
- Ability to use satellite navigation systems and plan routes effectively
- 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
- Annual inflationary salary review
- Contributory pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday
- Birthday leave
- Annual CPD allowance
- Life assurance scheme
- Sick pay
- Income protection scheme
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity leave
- Shared parental leave and adoption leave
- Benefits hub that offers retail and cinema discounts
Part of an amazing global family
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.
We are part of Antech and Linnaeus, both 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.
The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individuals, but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week
Salary: £22,000.00-£25,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Six Mile Bottom: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
