Companion Animal

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. 

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

Plymouth OOH Permanent
OOH Veterinary Surgeon – MiNightVet Plymouth – Permanent or FTC – Part Time – Up to £78,000 Pro Rata Rota: 1 week on 5 weeks off.  Opened in 2022, our OOH service is based within the RCVS-accredited Woodlands Veterinary Hospital. Due to continue...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Isle of Wight First Opinion Permanent
Here at the Isle of Wight hub we are looking to welcome a Registered Veterinary Nurse to our team. Your new role would be working across our HUB. Our state of the art hospital is equipped with 6 anaesthetic stations, Laparoscopic kit, ECG, ultraso...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Bishop Auckland First Opinion Permanent
Role: Registered Veterinary Nurse Location: Castle Vets (Working across Bishop Auckland and Barnard Castle) Hours: Full Time or Part Time hours can be considered Castle Vets are looking for a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly and...

Veterinary Surgeon

Trowbridge Small Animal Vets Permanent
  OOH Veterinary Surgeon - MNV Trowbridge - Salary up to £80k FTE depending on experience   Join our established OOH team providing exceptional emergency care across Wiltshire!   MiNightVet Trowbridge has been delivering a  high-quality out-o...

Neurology RVN

Alton Referrals Permanent
  Referral Neurology Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) On Site Selborne Road, Alton, Hampshire, United Kingdom, GU34 3HL Referrals Permanent Lumbry Park (Alton) Up to £35,000   Join the Excellence at Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists Lumbry...

Anaesthesia RVN

Alton Referrals Permanent
  Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists is a large multidisciplinary referral hospital providing veterinary referral services across the South of England including London and the Thames Valley. Our specialist services include Anaesthesia and Analges...

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