Senior Equine Vet
Senior Equine Vet
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Job Description
Senior/Experienced Equine Vet Required from May 2025
- Full or parttime position
- Based near Royston Hertfordshire
- 1:5 outofhours rota
- 65k prorata plus pension
- 22 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Support from the owner/director clinical director and a fantastic team of associate vets RVNs and admin staff
- Private Healthcare
- Confidence/mental health coaching available
- Beautiful rural location
- Fun sociable team
- Dogfriendly workplace
About the Clinic
This friendly independent equine clinic has been providing dedicated care to horses for over 20 years. The clinic is a busy independent equineonly veterinary practice that prides itself on offering a full range of attheyard and clinicbased services to its loyal and longstanding client base. With a team of 5.5 FTE vets 2 RVNs and 4 support staff the clinic is wellequipped to provide highquality care. The purposebuilt clinic includes 6 stables a surgical suite a treatment room with stocks areas for lameness assessments and modern diagnostic treatments including an objective gait analysis system.
About the Role
This senior/experienced Equine Vet role is integral to the practice providing routine advanced and emergency services alongside senior and associate veterinary surgeons. The role involves working with a broad range of horses including leisure horses sports horses thoroughbreds and even the occasional donkey. Clinical cases in this role are varied interesting and where possible allocated based on the vets areas of interest. As an independent practice with its own facilities the clinic gives its vets the freedom to work up cases pass them on internally or refer to external hospitals as they see fit.
Essential Skills
- Skilled in all areas of first opinion/ambulatory clinical work
- Capable of providing more involved procedures such as poor performance/lameness internal medicine minor surgical/dental work anaesthesia and prepurchase examinations (a combination of these skills is desirable)
- Enjoys mentoring and supporting less experienced veterinary surgeons and nurses in skill development
- Confident and empathetic in communication with both staff and clients
- Collaborative and proactive team player
- Experience in stud work is highly advantageous
Opportunities
This role offers opportunities to further develop clinical or managerial skills with the potential to move towards a clinical director role if desired (but this is not essential).
How to Apply
This friendly independent equine clinic is excited to welcome a senior/experienced equine vet to their dedicated team where work is varied and professional growth is encouraged. Submit your CV and call Mia onfor a confidential chat.
MGL26047
Employment Type
Full Time
