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Veterinary Surgeon

Vets for Pets
Middlesbrough
1 month ago
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Are you looking to join a dedicated, kind team that work hard to establish solid bonds with our colleagues, clients and their pets, continually striving to provide a consistent caring service. With team members who have over 20 years' experience?

  • You will join the practice at an exciting time after just undergoing a refurbishment
  • The practice would love the opportunity to work with an orthopaedic specialist and can offer the support for this in practice
  • The practice is a stable of the local community providing fantastic care for its local community and their furry friends
  • There are no OOH or Sundays and Saturday mornings are worked on a 1 in 4 basis
  • You will ideally be a good all rounder and your development will be encouraged and supported
  • You will have the same day off weekly to support your other commitments
  • Excellent location with great public transport links
  • Paying a fantastic salary up to £65,000 per annum (FTE, DOE)


About the role:

Here at our newly refurbished Middlesbrough practice, we have had an exciting opportunity arise and are looking for a full time Veterinary Surgeon to join our team.

With the added attraction of no OOH and no Sundays, this position can be flexed around what is importance to you, working patterns are mouldable, let it be around childcare, study, certificate time or wellbeing, we acknowledge and respect everyone is an individual, and their needs will vary, whilst all focusing in the common bond of providing the best clinical care we can.

We are ideally looking for a vet to join us on a full-time basis working 4 days a week, with 1:4 Saturday mornings 9am-12.30pm on a rota basis. As a balanced quality of life for colleagues is important the applicant's working pattern is mouldable and if part-time working/shorter days are preferred this can be offered. We are located on Marton Road, Middlesbrough amongst a caring community of pet owners and we strive to be the community vet of choice.

The practice is well established, partner owned now by Kat Goldsbrough MRCVS for 16 years, at Vets for Pets we have full clinical autonomy and enjoy a wide variety of interested medical and surgical cases. You will be joining an established team led by Kat, with support from a practice manager, alongside 3 vets, 5 nurses, 2 student nurses all full supported by 5 client care advisors. Within our vet team we aim to achieve ultimate job satisfaction from carrying out a good mix of consultations, medical work up and surgical cases. We have in house haematology, biochemistry, urinalysis, mircoscopy, ultrasound, tonopen, multiparameter monitoring, dental and standard digital radiology. With joining our team, you will receive the additional befits below:

  • Competitive salary of up to 65K per annum dependant on years' experience and any specialism or certification.
  • RCVS/VDS's fee's paid.
  • Exclusive company discounts including 20% off Pets at Home and The Groom Room.
  • 25% off veterinary bills.
  • Paid ½ day birthday leave.
  • Contributory pension scheme.
  • Encouraged to join the fun at Vets for Pets annual Wellbeing Mid-Winter Ball.
  • Fun opportunities to fundraise for the Pets Foundation.


If we sound like the team and practice for you, and you would like to find out more, talk to Katherine the JVP, then we would love to hear from you.

For further information please email or call to speak to the practice manager.

Location: TS4 2PT

Pets just see people. They aren't biased and they don't discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don't perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

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