Companion Animal

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Who We Are

We have over 470 Companion Animal first opinion veterinary practices in the UK. They retain their unique identity and individual feel with clinical autonomy to give the best possible care to their patients. We pride ourselves on career development and progression within the division, whilst maintaining our focus on delivering a great client journey. 


Our MiNightVet is a dedicated out-of-hours emergency provider for local veterinary practices. We have 40 companion animal out-of-hours MiNightVet practices to ensure 24/7 joined up care. Each has state-of-the-art facilities and dedicated overnight colleagues to ensure patients receive the highest standard of care. 

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Companion Animal roles

Regional Directors are vital to the success of our business. They provide support, coaching and leadership to enable our people and practices to achieve their full potential. Day-to-day our Regional Directors; give strategic direction and leadership to our practices; ensure the delivery of excellent clinical and client care; provide consistent support, training and coaching to meet the needs of practice teams; and help maximise the operational performance of each practice.

Our Clinical Directors lead and support our practice teams. The role is open to qualified veterinary surgeons already in leadership or experienced vets with a desire to progress into a management role. Our Clinical Directors are supported by a wide clinical support network throughout our group.

Our veterinary roles include a variety of consults, surgeries and sole charge. There’s the ability to become involved in QI projects and the opportunity to move into advanced practitioner, certificate holder, internship, specialist or management roles. Our vets are supported by an advanced practitioner and specialist clinical network. 

The operational anchor for all of our sites, our Practice directors and Managers recruit, train and supervise team members. They play a huge role managing day-to-day operations and ensure high levels of client satisfaction. From veterinary or non-veterinary backgrounds they normally have management or leadership experience.

We encourage our nurses to be the nurse they want to be! We promote career and skills development and support our nurses in schedule 3 procedures where they wish to. CVS offers an exciting and varied caseload and career development with our internal Nursing Career Pathway. There’s also the ability to move into leadership roles.

Enthusiastic individuals with a passion for animals make great Patient Care Assistants. The PCA role is one of the foundations of an outstanding veterinary practice, and our PCAs are involved in supporting our team of qualified RVNs and Vets to provide outstanding care to our patients. Many of our PCAs go on to be veterinary nurses. 

Our valued receptionists are the backbone of our practices. On the front line, they regularly act as the key point-of-contact for clients - a key focus of the role. They also play a huge role in organising the workload of a practice, including triaging cases. We offer regular sessions to support our receptionists, where team members collaborate, share experiences and support one-another.

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Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal Pennine Vets (Tottington) PEN Tot0045 Bury Greater Manchester United Kingdom Bury Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
  Part Time Small Animal Vet – Pennine Vets, Greater Manchester   Are you a Small Animal Vet looking for a role offering a great work/life balance, with no OOHs and working with a truly amazing team? If so, we have the job for you…   Pennine ...

Registered Veterinary Nurse - Maternity Cover

RVN Companion Animal Nursing Registered Veterinary Nurse Mildmay (Basingstoke) MILD Bas0004 Basingstoke Hampshire United Kingdom Basingstoke Nursing Nursing Maternity Cover
  We are looking for an Experienced Part time RVN to work in our friendly Small branch practice located in Overton for a 9-month FTC. We are  looking for an experienced RVN who enjoys consulting and assisting with a small amount of surgery to jo...

Weekend only Small Animal Vet

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal PD (Woking) PD WOK Wo0157 Woking Surrey United Kingdom Woking Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
Are you a Small Animal Vet that enjoys helping develop New Graduate Vets and team collaboration? Looking for a busy 24hr practice that you can work cases up? Looking for a weekend only position? Then look no further! Here at Pet Doctors Woking ...

Clinical Director

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal Endell Veterinary Group 5086 Salisbury Wiltshire United Kingdom Salisbury Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
We have an exciting new opportunity available for a Clinical Director to join us at Endell Vets Salisbury. We are a busy first opinion 3 vet practice with a wide & varied case load. We're extremely proud of our team, not only due to their drive a...

Small Animal Vet

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal Miller & Swann (Elgin) MIL&SWA0054 Elgin Moray United Kingdom Elgin Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
  Are you looking for a practice to call your home?  Our RCVS accredited general practice and veterinary nurse training centre based in Elgin are looking for a Small Animal Vet to join our team.   Our practice (there is 16 of us here!) has such...

Small Animal Vet - Full time or Part Time

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal PD (Seaford) PD Sea0104 Seaford East Sussex United Kingdom Seaford Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
Salary of up to £60000 DOE + Benefits / Relocation packages and Visa Sponsorship available (must be eligible to register with RCVS) About us: Here at the Seaford Hub our clinics have been established since the early 1970s. We are a tight knit te...
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