Job Title: Veterinary Surgeon 

Location: Village Vet Hampstead and Vet24, London 

Role type: Permanent 

Salary: From £45,000 per annum, depending on experience. 

Hours: Full-time 42 hours per week. 4-day week and 1 in 4 full weekends with time back in lieu. 

Join Village Vet Hampstead’s Hospital and play a pivotal role in shaping outstanding veterinary care! 

We are looking for a general Vet to be a part of a passionate team committed to delivering the highest standards of service and outcomes for our patients and clients. The role will involve first opinion consulting, procedures and integrating into the emergency and ICU stream, with the addition of time working with our dedicated night team on our 'swing shifts' until 10pm.  

Working hours: Full-time across a 4-day week, including 1 in 4 full weekends. You’ll have a fixed day off (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday), with one swing shift per week finishing at 10pm. 

Why join us: 

• Hampstead is a fantastically well-equipped 24hour hospital. You will have access to a CT scanner, full dental suite, fully kitted out ICU, endoscopy, ultrasound and much more. 

• We are looking for a general vet, but specific areas of interests encouraged and supported.  This clinic has springboarded many vets into internships and residencies  in the past!  You will be working alongside certificate holders in Surgery, ECC, medicine, exotics and diagnostic imaging. 

• Our primary care clinic is a well-established part of our community and sees a great variety of dogs, cats and some exotics.  It offers the full range of services to provide excellent and convenient services throughout life with s focus on excellent customer care. 

• Vet24 receives internal and external surgical referrals and serves as the 24-hour emergency clinic for many North London vet practices. With the high emergency caseload, it would be a great environment to develop an interest in emergency medicine and ECC. An imaging interest would also compliment this position very well. 

• We have an experience dedicated night team on site, making this a day only position.  The late 'swing shifts' overlap with the night team for great continuity of care, teamwork and care provision for the community of referring vets and their clients. 

What we are looking for: 

• MRCVS 2- 4 years’ experience and confidence in small animal general practice. 

Benefits 

• Certifications encouraged and funding available  

• 5 weeks' holiday + bank holidays + birthday leave  

• RCVS and VDS fees paid  

• £1500 allowance for CPD in addition to access to incredible resources from Linnaeus 

• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program  

• Career progression opportunities  

• Staff discount schemes  

• Enhanced parental leave and sick pay 

• E car salary sacrifice scheme  

• Enhanced equal family leave  

• Wellness program including:  

• Employee assistance program  

• Eyecare voucher scheme  

• Free annual flu jab  

• Cycle to work scheme  

• Recruitment referral reward scheme.  

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please reach out directly to Natalie Shoemark [email protected]