Companion Animal

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Let’s find a career in Companion Animal

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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Current Vacancies

Veterinary Surgeon

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal Deveron (Turriff) Up to £60k dependent on experience plus benefits Region 1 DEV Turr0039 Turriff Aberdeenshire United Kingdom Turriff Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
  An exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished, innovative and highly motivated Vet to join our busy established veterinary practice at Deveron Vets, based in Turriff, working full time/40 hours a week. We are looking for a Vet to work ...

Part Time Small Animal Vet (Salary up to £55K DOE pro rata)

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal Melton (Woodbridge) Salary up to £55K FTE DOE Region 12 MELT Woo0029 Woodbridge Suffolk United Kingdom Woodbridge Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
We are a Small Animal practice based in Woodbridge, Melton. This is a rare opportunity to join our forward thinking, progressive, supportive and loyal team - who like to have a laugh to make the days go quicker! This is a part time role working 2...

Veterinary Surgeon - Up to £65,000

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal PD (Rustington) Up to £65,000 DOE + Benefits Region 16 PD CHI Rus0022 Rustington Sussex United Kingdom Rustington Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
  Up to £65,000 DOE  Full or Part time hours  No OOH  1:6 Weekends  Consult Only available   Small Animal Vet at Pet Doctors Felpham and Rustington - Up to £65,000  Here at Pet Doctors Felpham and Rustington we have an exciting opportunity fo...

Head Vet

Senior Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vet Surgeon - Small Animal Buchan Vets (Peterhead) Up to £70k FTE, dependent on experience plus benefits Region 1 5150 Peterhead Aberdeenshire United Kingdom Peterhead Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
  A very exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished, innovative and highly motivated Head Vet to join our busy established veterinary practice at Buchan Vets, based in Peterhead, working full time/40 hours a week and covering two local s...

Registered Veterinary Nurse - Part time

RVN Companion Animal Nursing Registered Veterinary Nurse Beechwood (Kidsgrove) Up to £30,000 FTE, depending on experience plus benefits Region 6 BEECH Kids0048 Stoke on Trent Staffordshire United Kingdom Stoke on Trent Nursing Nursing Permanent
  Exciting opportunity alert! Beechwood Veterinary Practice is looking for a passionate Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our team on a part-time basis. With a competitive salary of up to £30,000 FTE, depending on experience, this role offers a...

Veterinary Surgeon

Vet Companion Animal Small Animal Vets Vets Carrick (Chesterfield) up to £29,350 FTE, depending on experience plus benefits Region 5 CARR Che0077 Chesterfield East Midlands United Kingdom Chesterfield Small Animal Vets Small Animal Vets Permanent
  We are excited to announce an opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Veterinary Surgeon to join our team at Carrick Veterinary Group on a part time basis – if you'd be interested in joining a PSS award-winning practice that also has a gold ...
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