Permanent Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon

Recruit4vets; Preston; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading independent mixed animal practice in Preston as a Permanent Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon. They offer a supportive work environment with a varied caseload and competitive salary. Enjoy the benefits of a large team, a generous CPD allowance, and flexibility in working hours.

Benefits

Regular wellness exercise sessions

5 annual CPD days

Accommodation available for relocation

Social events and charity events

Generous lieu time for out-of-hours shifts

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience or completed vet GDP portfolio.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and provide high standard of care.

Responsibilities

• Provide veterinary care to small animals.
• Work in a busy practice with medical and surgical cases.
• Participate in out-of-hours care as needed.

Skills

Veterinary experience

Emergency care

Education

Veterinary degree

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02.07.2025

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16.08.2025

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Job Description:

Permanent Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon - Preston

Type: Small Animal

Location: Preston, Lancashire

Practice Type: Independent mixed animal practice - They are a busy mixed practice providing veterinary services to companion animals, farm animals, and equines in Lancashire.

Facilities/Services:

• Their purpose-built practice is bright and spacious. With heating and air conditioning to provide a pleasant work environment.
• They have a varied caseload both medical and surgical, with excellent facilities including 7 consult rooms; a dedicated bereavement room; 2 operating theatres; a separate dental suite with dental x-ray; brand new ultrasound machine; digital x-ray; endoscopy; 5 patient wards; hydrotherapy; stance analyser and class IV laser.
• They provide a supportive workplace to all staff, especially new graduates. Several of their senior vets are GDP mentors actively assisting new graduate progression and a clinical director or senior vet is available 24 hours a day for advice or help if required.

Team: Their large team is friendly and caring, providing gold-standard treatment to patients. They have a great mixture of experienced vets as well as more recently qualified vets.

Role: An exciting opportunity has arisen for two small animal vets to join our clients' team due to expansion. They are a

proudly independent practice consisting of a large team of friendly and supportive vets, nurses, and receptionists. They work in a purpose-built RCVS status hospital with two branch practices.

Hours: Full-time, rota to be discussed in the interview

Weekends: 1 in 4 weekends, always backed by an experienced director

OOHS: They provide their own out-of-hours cover, which provides clients and patients with seamless care. As well as giving their vets the ability to tackle some more exciting emergency and critical care cases. The OOH rota is equally split between 8 vets with a separate backup rota which allows for an experienced vet to always be available for support as a second on-call.

Consults: Their consultation slots are a minimum of 15 minutes, with sufficient breaks between blocks to catch up on admin and/or brew breaks

Skills/Exp: They are currently looking for 2 vets with at least 2 years of experience (or having completed their vetGDP

portfolio) to join their team.

Salary: They offer a generous salary that is reflective of skills and experience - for example, a New Grad would start from £37,722 pa rising generously with experience.

The Package:

• Regular lunchtime wellness exercise sessions to promote positivity and wellbeing
• 5 annual CPD days
• Social events from nights out to charity events such as walking the 3 peaks!
• Generous lieu time given for any out-of-hours shifts worked
• Accommodation is available for a 3-month period to help with the relocation period if required