Full Time Experienced vet near Southampton salary up to £75k pa

Location Southampton
Discipline: Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon
Contact name: Louise Evans

Contact email: louise@brightleaf.co.uk
Job ref: 7844
Published: 4 months ago

Our client has a small but busy practice located on the beautiful Hampshire Coast Line, enjoying the tranquillity of small-town life whilst being located between two major cities, Southampton, and Portsmouth.

They pride themselves on preventative medicine and aiming to provide gold standard care, being able to offer many in-house procedures that would normally require costly referral. They have a friendly, compassionate, supportive team of vets and nurses, who regularly enjoy social events together outside of work. In terms of toys, they have ultrasound, cardiac ultrasound, DR radiography, Dental radiography, Endoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Rhinoscopy, Laparoscopic surgery, Surgical laser, 4 Anaesthetic monitors, Orthopaedic equipment including MMP and SOP kits.

This is a team of 6 Veterinary Surgeons and 8 Veterinary Nurses. They have a certificate holder in Cardiology who is also studying towards a Medicine Certificate. They do most of their own in-house orthopaedics, including MMP's, MPL, fracture repair and the majority of their own medicine investigations. They also have vets trained to perform Laparoscopic procedures. There are 2 managers, 5 qualified nurses and 3 trainee nurses at all levels of their training (the clinic has been a nurse training practice for the last 23 years) and 2 receptionists.


There is a team of 6 Veterinary Surgeons with a busy and varied caseload, including laparoscopy, orthopaedics, BOAS and cardiology. The perfect candidate will be enthusiastic in contributing to the ongoing development of their medical and surgical caseload, in house training, community events and in delivering the highest level of customer care.

This is a full-time role, with no night duties and 1:5 weekends, a weekend on is followed by a 4 day ‘weekend’. CPD is encouraged and funded. The salary for this role is up to £75,000 depending on experience, a welcome bonus of £5k and a relocation allowance up to £5k. The are looking for an enthusiastic Veterinary Surgeon who is looking to develop and utilise their skills. This can be either medical or surgical or a mixture of both. Attitude and enthusiasm are as important as clinical ability, being part of a high performing team.

For more information on this role or if you would like to apply then please contact Juliep@brightleaf.co.uk or give me a call on 01422 433900.

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