Castle Vets is a Small Animal hospital looking for an experienced individual to join our team of 8 vets. We offer a collaborative environment where we support individual interests, from medicine to surgery. We prioritize your professional growth and support your career goals. With a team that includes certificate holders in ophthalmology and diagnostic imaging, we offer fully funded certificate programs and will support your CPD schedule.

There is no sole charge as there are a minimum of 3 vets working each day, with at least 2 vets operating (2 separate theatres, plus separate dental and imaging suites). We have a large, experienced team who support each other sharing case knowledge and advice daily. We have 2 consult only vets so we would ideally be looking for a vet who also enjoys surgery. Flexible appointment length based on case requirements. 

 

 

The right person is most important so we will happily discuss full-time, part-time or flexible working hours. Full-time work is normally split over 4 long days or 5 shorter days. Shift patterns cover varying portions of our opening hours: 8-7pm. Plus Saturdays 8:30-1pm. There is no OOH/bank holidays– we are a VetsNow host practice so are lucky to be able to keep our inpatients on site, with dedicated care. This enables further skills sharing between the team.   

 

We are passionate about work-life balance and run monthly wellbeing activities within the practice and also a monthly social activity outside of work. These have included activities such as a wellbeing breathwork session and a team doing the muddy dog challenge.

 

We are an RCVS accredited small animal hospital and hold ISFM gold standard cat friendly status as well as the silver rabbit friendly award. The team are also currently working towards the dog friendly award. 

 

We recently refurbished a number of areas within the practice, including our cat only dedicated side of the building.  Why not come and have a look around?  We have:

 

We value high clinical standards within first opinion care and have a large client base of established loyal clients. Having the CT scanner enables us to keep more complex cases in house and work cases up to a high standard. 

 

Castle vets has a great team culture and a strong knowledge sharing environment. We prioritise high standards of care for both our patients and our team. 1/3 of our team have been with us for over 14 years but we also take on new ideas. 

 

Visiting orthopaedic and soft tissue specialist weekly. 

 

We are a nurse training practice and have dedicated teams – ANA & Auxillary team, experienced receptionists and a dedicated insurance team, finance administrator and Practice Manager. 

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 -