Vet Surgeon – Bradford – Up to £60,000 (Permanent)

Vet Surgeon – Bradford – Up to £60,000 (Permanent) Overview

Vet Surgeon – Bradford – Up to £60,000

You’ll benefit from a high-volume, varied caseload that offers outstanding opportunities to develop your surgical skills and clinical confidence. With a busy mix of daily consultations, emergency work and complex surgical cases, you’ll gain valuable practical experience and broaden your capabilities at pace.

Our structured Veterinary Surgeon Skills Development Framework provides a clear pathway for developing your surgical expertise, with opportunities to gain experience across a wide range of procedures, including:

• Soft tissue surgery: Pyometras, cystotomies, enterotomies, enucleations and caesarean sections.
• Orthopaedics: Cruciate repairs, femoral head and neck excisions (FHNE), hip reductions and fracture management.
• Dentistry: From routine extractions through to more advanced surgical extractions.
• Emergency and complex surgery: Opportunities to progress towards advanced skills in soft tissue surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmic surgery and complex reconstructive procedures.

Your progress through the framework is formally reviewed each year, providing a structured pathway for clinical development, career progression and salary progression as your skills and experience grow.

About you

We’re looking for a Veterinary Surgeon who enjoys a varied clinical role, combining consultations with hands-on surgery and managing a diverse caseload. You’ll be passionate about delivering excellent patient care and making a genuine difference to pets and owners who rely on our support.

To be successful, you’ll have:

• MRCVS registration.
• Experience delivering high standards of patient and client care.
• A pragmatic, efficient and welfare-focused approach to clinical decision-making.
• The confidence and adaptability to work effectively in a busy, fast-paced environment.
• Good IT skills and confidence using clinical systems.
• At least 12 months’ UK small animal practice experience.

About the hospital

Our hospital is a busy, collaborative environment where teamwork, clinical discussion and shared learning are central to the way we work.

With a high volume of varied cases and a significant emergency workload, you’ll have excellent opportunities to learn from experienced colleagues and develop your clinical skills across a broad range of disciplines.

You’ll work alongside a supportive team with diverse clinical interests, giving you access to a wealth of knowledge and experience. To help you thrive in this environment, we also offer flexible working arrangements, with both full-time and part-time opportunities available.

Our well-equipped Pet Hospitals offer excellent facilities to support your development and patient care, including separate dog and cat kennelling, in-house radiography, ultrasound, endoscopy, piped gases and extensive orthopaedic equipment.

Work pattern and rota

We recognise that a rewarding veterinary career needs to work alongside life outside the hospital. Our rota is designed to offer flexibility, consistency and a good work-life balance.

• 7.5-hour working days within core hours of 08:30-18:00.
• Fixed daily hours, with flexibility around the days you work.
• A range of working patterns considered to suit individual circumstances.
• A balanced caseload, with approximately one-third surgical work and two-thirds consultations.
• A fair, shared weekend rota, with no lone working.
• A minimum of two vets on duty at weekends – one surgical and one consulting – ensuring support and collaboration.
• Weekend shifts (Saturday and Sunday) are either 7.5 or 9 hours.

Rewards, support and benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your professional development, wellbeing and life outside work.

• Flexible working: Options to support your work-life balance and individual circumstances.
• CPD and professional development: Five days and £1,000 CPD allowance per year, full RCVS fee payment (where applicable), extensive internal CPD programmes and discounts for BSAVA Congress and London Vet Show.
• Annual leave: 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to five additional days.
• Additional time off: Three paid special days each year – a Volunteering Day, Celebration Day and Wellbeing Day.
• Pension: Generous pension scheme, with employer contributions starting at 5% and increasing to 10%.
• Life assurance: Cover worth four times your annual salary.
• Health and wellbeing: AXA Health Employee Assistance Programme, 24/7 wellbeing support and private medical cover.
• Lifestyle discounts: Access to retail, holiday and lifestyle savings through our staff Fetch benefits platform.
• Family support: Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support might be available.

If you’re looking for a role offering exceptional hands-on surgical experience, a diverse caseload and a structured pathway to develop your clinical skills, we’d love to hear from you.

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