Senior Vet

We are looking for an experienced Veterinary Surgeon to join us here at Castle Vets. You will join an established practice with many loyal clients, varied cases, and the chance to develop your specific areas of interest. This role will offer the opportunity to work across our Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland practices. This is a 40 hours per week position, offering a salary up to £70k FTE, depending on experience plus benefits. We also offer relocation packages. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced veterinary surgeon to work in our small animal practices. You'll be joining a hard-working, well established team who work in a very collaborative way to support each other.

This role as a Senior vet will allow you to lead by example and take responsibility not just for your own cases but also to help the practice achieve the best possible client and animal care. To achieve this, you will be supported by a fantastic vet and nursing team who are passionate about patient care. This team offers you a strong, caring and supportive mix of RVN's, PCA's and receptionists.

Your senior peers will support you in helping implement, review, and support clinical excellence and improving the patient and client journey for our well-established client base.

Why join us?

Established in the 1930's, our practices have gone from strength to strength and our friendly and experienced veterinary team provides the highest quality of care.

Alongside our facilities and specialist equipment, including endoscopy, laprascopic spaying, advanced orthopaedics and soft tissue surgery, our dedicated veterinary team are here to provide several services to our clients, including regular check-ups and routine procedures.  

We are passionate about animal care. We know as well as anyone that our clients pets are important family members. That is why the whole team here treat their patients as one of their own.  

Our nurses are exceptional, with a huge range of skills. They do many regular nurse clinics and are heavily involved with maintaining high clinical standards. As a practice, we have very regular lunch and learns, which also help us to maintain our CPD and keep up to date.

There is a good management structure to support with all aspects of daily vet life! Wellbeing is important, and our diary set up enables us to do our job effectively without having to compromise on time.

We also have a separate farm department – Castle Farm Vets. 

Salary and Hours:

This is a permanent full-time role. (part time considered)

Our practice opening hours are Monday to Friday 08:30 to 18:00 and Saturdays 09:00 to 12:30pm

Our practice is supported out of hours by Wear Referrals.

The salary is up to £70,000 dependent on experience, plus benefits.

Our rewards package includes:

• Dedicated CPD support and access to a suite of internal courses developed by our in-house learning & development team of Vets and Nurses
• Free Knowledge Hub offering over 260 courses and 235 webinars covering a variety of clinical and non-clinical topics
• Wellbeing initiatives including access to over 280 wellbeing champions across our group
• Other Health and Wellbeing benefits include the Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to Work scheme, and discounted Gym Membership
• Forward-thinking policies including fertility treatment, Pregnancy Loss, extended sick pay, enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave
• CVS Save as your earn scheme – purchase discounted shares in the company and benefit from the Group's increase in share price over that time!
• Health cash plans, discounted critical illness cover, 8 weeks' pay to support exceptional life events, private medical insurance available after the first month of service at discounted rates
• Workplace Pension
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme 
• RCVS and VDS support
• Discounted Treatment for your Pet/s

To apply…

Want to know more, or do you have any questions you want to ask confidentially? 

Then feel free to contact David in the resourcing team at david.vaughan@cvsvets.com or on 07780 436 395

To submit an online application, click Apply Now, upload your CV, and we'll be in touch.

CVS is committed to being a fully inclusive place to work where all our colleagues are encouraged and supported to be themselves, where difference is celebrated and where everyone feels able to deliver their best. We are also determined to build a workforce that is more representative of our diverse communities and the people we provide our services to.

routeto: david.vaughan@cvsvets.com