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Veterinary Surgeon - Small Animal

Inglis Vets Hospital, Dunfermline, Dunfermline, Scotland

Discipline: Small Animal

Full Time, Part Time, Flexible

Up to £57,000 DOE

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Discover the next step in your career


Inglis Vets is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Veterinary Surgeon to become a valued member of our large, friendly team. This is a permanent position that offers a diverse and fulfilling workload.

As part of this role, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a varied caseload that includes hospital shifts, where you'll manage more complex cases and provide care for patients requiring intensive treatment and hospitalization. You’ll be working closely with a well-supported, collaborative team of Registered Veterinary Nurses, Animal Care Assistants, and Client Care professionals. In addition to hospital shifts, you’ll also enjoy the benefits of working at our branch locations. These shifts offer a change of pace, focusing on more routine cases in a smaller, close-knit team setting, allowing you to build meaningful relationships with clients from the local community and develop a loyal caseload.

You work/life balance is important to us 


At Inglis Vets, we’re happy to consider both full-time and part-time applications to suit your lifestyle. Our full-time positions offer a 4-day working week, Monday to Friday, providing an excellent work-life balance. We take pride in offering our own in-house Out of Hours (OOH) service and also provide OOH support for a couple of small local practices. You’ll be joining a highly experienced team, including dedicated Night Nurses who are onsite throughout the night to ensure the highest level of patient care.

For those with a passion for emergency and critical care, this is an excellent opportunity to hone your skills in a supportive and professional environment. When on duty, you will have time off during the day and enjoy generous stand-down periods to help maintain your energy and focus. Our OOH duty shifts are typically on a 1 in 12 rotation, ensuring a manageable workload. Weekend day shifts also rotate on a 1 in 12 basis, offering further variety while maintaining a healthy balance.

Why join us


We are a busy and well-established vet practice with a main hospital and 8 branches located in Fife and Central Scotland. We are dedicated to providing our clients with an excellent care plan and offer our own out of hours services. Our Cowdenbeath Branch is a clinical training centre for RDSVS Vet Students. Our Hospital Hill branch features a hydrotherapy treadmill. The branches are well located in Fife and Central Scotland with ease of access to Edinburgh, the beaches of the Fife coast and beautiful Perthshire. The branches are easily accessible but a full driving licence and own transportation is a must. 

We have a passionate and hardworking team of over 100 employees, including around 40 Registered Veterinary Nurses and Animal Care Assistants, 30 Vets and 30 Support Staff. In addition to our permanent staff, we have a visiting orthopaedic surgeon, ophthalmologist and dermatologist. We are very enthusiastic about our teams’ development and currently have vets studying for certificates in medicine, surgery, and cardiology and we have new graduate Vets and also Student Nurses.

Because our people matter


We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from -
 

Work-life balance

  • 6.8 weeks annual leave
  • Additional holiday entitlement for your birthday
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    Wellbeing

  • Private medical insurance
  • Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
  • Non-accidental injury support
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    Development

  • £1250 CPD allowance with 40 hours paid pro rata
  • Certificate support
  • Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy
  • Access to Vetlexicon – our online encyclopaedia provider
  • All our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding
  • All our Vets get £1250 per annum to spend via our Care Fund
  • Infection Prevention and Control Programme
  • Quality Improvement Programme
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    Professional Memberships

  • BVA membership
  • VDS cover
  • RCVS fees
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    Additional

  • Pawsome Benefits – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
  • Pension – 5% Employee/3% Employer
  • Discounted staff pet care
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    Inglis Vets Hospital, Dunfermline

    120 Halbeath Road, Dunfermline, KY11 4LA, United Kingdom

    Animals treated

    Small animals

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    Any questions before applying?

    Speak to Taylor Findlay from our recruitment team who would be happy to help you with any questions you have before applying for this role.

    Senior Talent Partner

    Taylor Findlay

    taylor.findlay@ivcevidensia.com