Pets at Home

Veterinary Surgeon

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Job Description

Experienced Veterinary Surgeon – clinical freedom | supportive multi-vet team

Norwich Hall Road – Vets for Pets

We’re looking for a confident Veterinary Surgeon who enjoys the variety of first opinion practice, from building relationships with clients and managing medical cases to performing surgery and providing excellent patient care.

We’re offering a position with clinical freedom, a supportive multi vet team, well equipped theatres, and future partnership potential for the right person. If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, we’d love to talk.

Why Norwich & Why Us

Norwich is one of those rare places that strikes the perfect balance: vibrant city life, beautiful countryside, and the coast just 30 minutes away. Whether you love architecture, independent shops, the Broads, or long walks on the beach, you’ll find your lifestyle here.

Across Norwich we have three individually owned and run Vets for Pets practices. You’ll be primarily based at Hall Road, but with occasional flexibility to support our other sites.

At Hall Road, you’ll join a 6 vet team (including a new graduate), supported by 8 brilliant nurses, VCAs, and an experienced admin team. Our vets hold special interests in orthopaedics, soft tissue surgery, and imaging, creating a collaborative environment where clinical discussion and development are part of everyday life.

We’re purpose built, well equipped, and backed by a regional team who actively support leadership development — ideal if you’re looking to grow into a senior or future partner role.

What Makes Our Practices Stand Out

  • 15 minute vaccination appointments
  • 30 minute clinical consults
  • Well stocked orthopaedic kits
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • BVA Good Workplace Guide implemented
  • Regular clinical meetings
  • Small Animal GP status with PSS

We also have ambitious expansion plans, and we’re looking for someone who wants to be part of that journey.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experienced Veterinary Surgeon with RCVS registration
  • Ideally 2+ years’ experience in small animal practice
  • Full time: 39 hours, 4 days (9–7), 1:5 weekends - can consider part-time hours
  • Weekend rota at our Norwich Sprowston site
  • No OOHs
  • Bank holidays on rotation
  • Excellent communication skills
  • A team focused mindset with confidence working independently
  • Passion for high quality patient care and animal welfare

What We Offer

  • Salary up to £65,000 (DOE / FTE)
  • Generous CPD allowance + certificate funding
  • 5.6 weeks holiday, rising to 6.6 weeks after 2 years
  • Birthday leave
  • Contributory pension
  • Paid RCVS & VDS
  • Visa sponsorship + potential relocation support
  • In house career development pathways
  • Access to wellbeing & pastoral support
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • 40% Vets for Pets discount
  • 20% Pets at Home & Groom Room discount
  • Access to Retail Trust, Port of Call & MHFA support
  • We’re genuinely enthusiastic about CPD — if you want to develop, we will back you.
  • Partnership opportunities may be available for the right candidate as our practices continue to grow.

For an informal, confidential chat, contact Lizzie in our Talent Acquisition team on southvets@vets4pets.com Or apply directly — we’d love to hear from you.

Location: NR4 6DH

Equal Opportunities Employer

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. 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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