Vets for Pets
Experienced Veterinary Surgeon
Requirements
We're looking for someone with solid experience in small animal practice who is confident with routine consultations and surgery. A genuine passion for delivering high clinical standards and a desire for professional development are essential.
Job Description
Hours: 40 hours per week | 1 in 4 Saturdays (9:00am - 4:00pm)
Ready for your next career move?
Are you an experienced Veterinary Surgeon looking for a practice where you can fully utilise your clinical skills, influence case management, and continue developing your career within a supportive team?
At Selby Vets for Pets, we're looking for a confident and compassionate Veterinary Surgeon to join our established practice. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys clinical autonomy, values collaboration, and is looking to work in an environment that genuinely supports both professional growth and work-life balance.
The Opportunity
As an experienced Veterinary Surgeon, you'll play a key role within our clinical team, managing a varied medical and surgical caseload while working alongside highly skilled colleagues. You'll have the freedom to work cases up to a high standard, with the support, equipment, and experienced nursing team needed to deliver exceptional patient care.
We actively encourage Vets to pursue their clinical interests and are happy to support certificates, whether your passion lies in ophthalmology, behaviour, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, or another discipline.
You'll be joining an experienced team led by our Clinical Lead, who has over 26 years of veterinary experience, creating an environment where knowledge sharing and continuous learning are part of everyday practice.
What You'll Bring
We're looking for someone who:
- Has solid experience working in small animal practice
- Is confident with routine consultations and surgery
- Enjoys building lasting relationships with clients
- Works collaboratively and supports colleagues across the practice
- Has a genuine passion for delivering high clinical standards
- Is keen to continue learning and developing professionally
Our purpose-built practice is designed to support high-quality veterinary care and clinical excellence. You'll benefit from:
- A loyal and established client base
- Clinical freedom and autonomy to work cases up thoroughly
- An experienced team of Veterinary Surgeons, RVNs, Clinical Care Advisors, our Head Nurse and Practice Manager
- Fully funded CPD, including certificates
- No overnight responsibilities, with dedicated out-of-hours providers and referral hospitals nearby
- One trained Mental Health First Aider and a culture that genuinely prioritises colleague wellbeing
Our Benefits
- Salary up to £70,000, depending on experience
- £5,000 welcome bonus
- Relocation support available
- Visa sponsorship available (A-rated sponsor)
- Pension scheme and healthcare benefits
- Paid professional memberships
- Generous CPD allowance with certificate funding
- Excellent career progression opportunities
- Colleague discounts, including up to 20% off at Pets at Home
- Supportive, friendly, and inclusive working environment
Based within the Pets at Home store on a busy retail park just outside Selby town centre (YO8 8LY), our practice offers free parking and excellent transport links to Leeds, York, and the East Coast.
Interested?
If you're an experienced Veterinary Surgeon looking for a practice where you'll be valued, supported, and encouraged to develop your career, we'd love to hear from you.
For an informal and confidential conversation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at covet@vets4pets.com.
We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!
Skills
About Vets for Pets
Vets for Pets and Companion Care are our brands within The Pets at Home Vet Group. We are part of the Pets at Home Group plc, which also includes Pets at Home retail stores and Pets Grooming salons. Together, we are the UK’s leading pet care business, providing pet owners with everything they need to be able to look after their pets. We are proud to be one of the largest veterinary groups in the UK with a national network of practices of all shapes and sizes run by our Joint Venture Partners (JVPs). The Pets at Home Vet Group operates 440+ small animal veterinary practices across the UK, including standalone and in-store practices. We believe in giving Veterinary Surgeons, Nurses and Practice Managers the opportunity and freedom to take control of their own career and future by owning and running their own practice. We are the home of joint venture partnership for ambitious veterinary surgeons in the UK veterinary market, we are committed to delivering first class service and high standards of care. Our practices are supported by dedicated business professionals based in our Support Office in Handforth who have the expertise to help them thrive. We were extremely proud to be announced the winners of the 2020 Institute of Student Employers Award’s Best Graduate Onboarding and Induction Activities Programme category, in recognition of our two-year Graduate Development Programme. Designed by vets with extensive practice and industry experience, we help develop medical, surgical and professional skills. If our unique veterinary business interests you, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.vets4petscareers.com/