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

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Gaerwen First Opinion Permanent
  Registered Veterinary Nurse – Bennet Williams Vets Location: Anglesey Salary: Between £27,000 - £32,000 depending on experience Contract: Full-time, 40 hours across 4 days a week  Practice Type: First Opinion   At CVS, caring is what we do. A...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Plymouth First Opinion Permanent
At CVS, caring is what we do. As a Veterinary Nurse, you'll be at the heart of promoting pet wellness—monitoring patients' health, supporting their recovery, and offering reassurance to the people who love them. Because for us, caring isn't just a...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Cambridge First Opinion Permanent
  Registered Veterinary Nurse | Arbury Road Vets Location: Cambridge Contract: Permanent & 3-month FTC | Full-time Practice Type: First Opinion Salary: Competitive Salary up to £36,000 depending on experience.    At CVS, caring is what we do. A...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Longwell Green First Opinion Annualised Hours
  Night Veterinary Nurse Highcroft Vets, Longwell Green Location: Bristol Contract: Part-time, Monday-Friday nights on a one week on, one week off basis Practice Type: First Opinion Small Animal Competitive Salary: £27,000 - £33,000 (pro rata)...

OOH Veterinary Surgeon

Trowbridge OOH Permanent
OOH Veterinary Surgeon - Trowbridge - Salary up to £60-80k FTE depending on experience Are you looking for a part time role in Emergency and Critical Care? Here at Harris, Hill & Gibbons we are looking for an additional vet to support our curren...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Tilehurst First Opinion Fixed Term Contract
  12-Month FTC Registered Veterinary Nurse Active Vet Care Tilehurst Location: Reading Contract: Full-time, 40 hours across 4 or 5 days with a share in the 1:4 Saturday rota | 12-month fixed term contract, maternity cover Practice Type: First...
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