About the Job

Peterborough– Veterinary Surgeon

Up to £75,000 DOE pro rata plus benefits

Join our Emergency and Critical Care service in Vets Now Peterborough

As a Vet Surgeon at Vets Now Peterborough you will see an exciting range of cases as well as being fully supported throughout your Vets Now journey by our team of Vets, Nurses, Animal Care assistants and reception team.

Enjoy a balanced and sustainable career, designed around you

At Vets Now we champion work/life balance and understand how important this is for our people. In a Full-Time role, you will work an average of 3 shifts per week, which will be a mix of midweek nights, and also 1 in 2 weekends, plus a fair share of bank holidays.

This role can also be offered as a Part-time position.

We look after you, so you can look after them

With access to the largest ECC caseload in Europe, this role will be both stimulating and rewarding allowing you to break up the routine of day practice we also offer an outstanding benefits package which includes the following:

  • Private medical insurance
  • Membership of employee wellbeing programme
  • Enhanced sick pay
  • Enhanced maternity policy including 6 months full pay
  • Family-friendly policies including paternity and adoption pay schemes
  • 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
  • Your birthday as a paid day off
  • Paid volunteering days
  • £1500 CPD allowance plus 35 paid hours pro rata
  • ECC certificate support – financial and paid study leave
  • Access to our Edge programmes
  • RCVS fees
  • VECCS membership
  • VDS cover
  • Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
  • UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
  • Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
  • Death in service of two times annual salary

Give yourself the AdvantEdge

We can also offer a place on our two week programme, AdvantEdge. Designed for experienced Vets who want to refresh or cement their emergency and critical care knowledge and skills, AdvantEdge is available on all contract sizes, large or small.

Thrive on saving lives and making a lasting difference?

We are at the forefront of emergency and critical care. Working as an emergency Vet Surgeon will expose you to an interesting range of cases that you simply won’t see in general practice.

For further information about joining our Peterborough team, please contact Tom in our Talent team on 07890 897894 or email [email protected].

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.