Experienced Small Animal General Practitioner Colchester, North Essex
Vets for Vets Colchester Group is looking for an experienced, passionate General Practitioner who enjoys traditional general practice and wants to take their career to the next level by working in a truly integrated first-opinion and referral environment.
About the Role
You will spend approximately 75% of your time in our busy, well-equipped first-opinion practice and 25% working at our nearby Referral & ECC Hospital in Colchester, Essex. This unique setup gives you seamless access to advanced diagnostics, surgery, and 24/7 inpatient care, allowing you to deliver a higher standard of medicine for your patients while continuing to enjoy the rewards of being a true generalist.
This role is ideal for a vet who wants to focus on being a clinician, rather than for example carrying the heavy non-clinical and management responsibilities often associated with a Clinical Director position.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
This role offers a rare opportunity to combine the satisfaction of traditional general practice with the support and resources of a modern referral hospital, all within a collaborative and forward-thinking team.
If you’re an experienced GP who values strong clinical standards, enjoys mentoring, and wants to escape the heavy management side of practice leadership, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now — we’d be delighted to show you around and discuss how this role could be a great next step in your career.
Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
