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

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Kilmarnock First Opinion Permanent
Role: Registered Veterinary Nurse Location: Valley Vets (Kilmarnock, Scotland) Salary: £27,000 to £32,000 dependant on experience + benefits Hours: Full time Contract: Permanent Are you a passionate Registered Veterinary Nurse looking for a new ...

Twilight Veterinary Surgeon

Maidstone OOH Permanent
Twilight Veterinary Surgeon, Newham Court Veterinary Hospital, Maidstone. Rota: 2pm-12am, 7 on 14 off. Newnham Court Veterinary Hospital are looking for a Twilight Veterinary Surgeon to join their existing highly experienced Day and ECC team of ...

Registered Veterinary Nurse

TELFORD First Opinion Fixed Term Contract
  Registered Veterinary Nurse, Full-time, 12-month Fixed Term Contract - Haygate Vets, Wellington   Are you an experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse with a passion for high clinical standards and client care? Do you want to the opportunity to ...

Veterinary Surgeon

Falmouth OOH Permanent
OOH Veterinary Surgeon, PT, Rosemullion Veterinary Hospital, Falmouth, Cornwall Are you a vet looking for a role with real clinical variety and autonomy in a modern practice with a great work life balance? If you enjoy the challenge of emergency...

Lead Surgical Registered Veterinary Nurse

Manchester First Opinion Permanent
Are you an RVN with an interest in Emergency & Critical Care and looking for the next step in your career into a Lead Surgical Nurse role? Would you like access to an interesting caseload? If so, then this is the ideal opportunity for you! We a...

Veterinary Surgeon

Caterham OOH Permanent
OOH Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon – MiNightVet Caterham, The Village Hospital.    Are you looking for a new clinical challenge whilst maintaining a fantastic work life balance? We have just the role for you within our MiNightVet Caterham team!  ...

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