Pets at Home

Veterinary Surgeon

Pets at Home  •  £78k/yr  •  Onsite  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Veterinary Surgeon – Farnham Vets for Pets

Salary up to £78,000 + excellent benefits

At Farnham Vets for Pets, we’ve recently taken ownership of the practice and have exciting plans for introducing new services. We’re now looking for an experienced and ambitious Veterinary Surgeon to join us on this journey and play a key role in shaping the future of our practice.

We’re seeking a confident, dynamic and motivated vet to become part of our friendly, close-knit, and forward-thinking team.

Our New Practice Owners

Our owners bring a wealth of experience and a strong commitment to clinical excellence and team development:

  • Kirsty – 15 years qualified, holds a surgical certificate, with a background in hospital practice and particular interests in regenerative medicine and chronic pain management
  • James – 14 years’ experience, specialising in physiotherapy and arthritis management. He leads business development and is driving the introduction of gold-standard rehabilitation services. James is passionate about supporting career progression and fostering a positive, progressive working environment

Our Team

You’ll be supported by a highly skilled and collaborative clinical team:

  • Amir – strong interest in surgery
  • Cathy - enjoys both medicine and surgery
  • Ezgi – currently undertaking a certificate in diagnostic imaging
  • Emma – thrives on complex medical cases

Our Facilities

Our purpose-built practice is designed to deliver the highest clinical standards, with excellent facilities including:

  • Two operating theatres
  • Dedicated imaging/theatre room
  • In-house diagnostics and advanced equipment including syringe drivers, drip pumps, multiparameter monitoring, capnography, doppler, suction, diathermy, dental radiography, tonopen, ultrasound, and a PRP machine
  • Future plans will include onsite Hydrotherapy/ Physiotherapy to benefit our arthritic and Orthopaedic patients.

We manage the majority of cases in-house, including advanced procedures such as stem cell therapy and PRP intra-articular injections, and are supported by visiting orthopaedic, cardiology and ophthalmology specialists.

The Role & Culture

With a loyal and growing client base, you’ll have the opportunity to work cases up locally while developing your own clinical interests. Certification is actively encouraged and fully funded. We value collaboration and innovation—if you bring new ideas or CPD experience, we’d love to hear them.

What We Offer

  • Salary up to £78,000 (dependent on experience)
  • Flexible working – full-time or part-time considered
  • 1 in 4 Saturday rota (shared fairly across the team)
  • No Sundays
  • Pension
  • Paid professional memberships
  • Fully funded CPD and development opportunities
  • Death in service benefit
  • Exclusive lifestyle and shopping discounts (including up to 30% off at Pets at Home)

We’re conveniently located on a retail park with free parking, easy access to main A roads, and a newly opened Marks & Spencer nearby.

Interested?

If all this sounds like the perfect step in your career journey, please contact Kirsty.raistrick@vets4pets.com james.beacroft@vetsforpets.com for more information or an informal chat about this role.

Location GU9 9QJ

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

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/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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