Veterinary Surgeon

Are you a Veterinary Surgeon looking for an exciting role with the opportunity to expand and develop your clinical skill set?

Here at Pet Doctors Isle of Wight we are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic and caring Veterinary Surgeon to join our dedicated team on the Isle of Wight.

We welcome applications from any areas of interest. Especially those with surgical experience, a surgical bias or even exotics!

Along with having the opportunity to join our dedicated veterinary team here at Pet Doctors you will also be encouraged to continue your professional development in practice.

We are true believers of learning and nurturing our vet talent and therefore offer structured support and development of clinical skills with the potential for support in gaining a fully funded certificate. You will be joining a team of certificate holders (or working towards) in Surgery, Cardiology, ECC, Internal Medicine and Dermatology. The IOW vet teams work collaboratively and contribute to Clinical Excellence projects, regular vet meetings, case reviews and dedicated CPD days held in-house for the team to learn and grow together.

Rota: 40 hours a week across 4 days. We are also open to considering part time applications.

Who are we?

Our IOW hub consists of a Veterinary Hospital and three branches across the island.

The Isle of Wight hosts a vast amount of beautiful countryside and beach walks, historic landmarks, and an abundance of local produce and eateries.

Our RCVS accredited hospital houses five consult rooms, two surgery suites, in-house lab, ultrasound scanner, digital and dental x-rays, CT scanner and endoscopy. Our three branches each host three - four consult rooms, theatre, in-house labs and imaging suites. Each of these branch's feed into our main hospital for over-night care where our dedicated OOH team care for patients overnight.

See what we get up to in practice: https://www.facebook.com/PDIOW/

Our standard benefits include:

• An excellent, highly competitive salary up to £70k + benefits package
• RCVS, VDS and subscription fees paid
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (or equivalent) with our Buy/Sell holiday scheme - allowing you to purchase an additional two weeks of annual leave
• Generously encouraged and fully funded CPD – abundant opportunities within the business aided by internal and external development courses and programmes
• Receive an extra days leave each year in your first 5 years at CVS
• Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme – automatic enrolment and completely hassle free
• Access to First Aid for Mental Health and Wellbeing Champions across CVS and 300 trained CVS colleagues in this role
• Colleague discount on pet products and treatments including free consults, cost price drugs and a discount to our online pharmacy, Animed.
• Access to the company share-save scheme

Intrigued? Click apply now! For further details or an informal chat, please contact Jim in the recruitment team at jim.mcdowell-massar@cvsvets.com

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.