Veterinary Surgeon – Selby Vets for Pets
Salary: Up to £70,000 DOE + £5,000 welcome bonus
Hours: 40 hours a week | 1 in 4 Saturdays (9am–4pm)
Location: Selby, YO8 8LY
Are you looking for a veterinary role that combines exciting clinical opportunities, supportive colleagues, and a true work–life balance? Selby Vets for Pets has the perfect opportunity for an experienced Veterinary Surgeon to join our friendly and inclusive team!
About the Role
You’ll be joining a warm, easy-going but hard-working team of experienced vets, including a Clinical Lead with 26 years’ experience. We welcome special interests, whether it’s Ophthalmology, Behaviour, soft tissue surgery, or other areas of passion and actively encourage CPD, with certification fully funded.
As part of the team, you’ll:
Why Selby Vets for Pets?
Our purpose-built practice is designed to deliver the highest clinical standards. With loyal clients and room for growth, you’ll have everything you need to develop your skills, work up cases, and explore your clinical interests. Overnight care is not required, with the support of nearby OOH providers and referral hospitals within a 40-minute drive.
We value work–life balance, inclusivity, and creating a culture where colleagues are empowered to be their best.
The Perks
Location
We’re based on a busy retail park inside a Pets at Home store, just outside Selby town centre. Free parking, excellent transport links, and easy access to Leeds, York, and the East Coast make commuting simple.
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!
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/
