Veterinary Surgeon - Small Animal

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 12 August 2025
LOCATION
Burton-on-Trent
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£55,000 / year
CATEGORY
Healthcare
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SKILLS

Veterinary Surgery Small Animal Clinical Medicine Surgery Veterinary Medicine Patient Care

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

Scarsdale Vets is seeking a Veterinary Surgeon to join their team, split between Stapenhill & Hilton practices, offering flexible working patterns and opportunities for specialization. The role offers a competitive salary, relocation support, and a welcome bonus, within a well-equipped and supportive environment. Benefits include a strong emphasis on work-life balance and career development.

Key Responsibilities/Duties: The job details were not available.

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: Veterinary Surgery, Small Animal, Clinical Medicine.

Veterinary Surgeon - Small Animal

### Scarsdale Vets, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, West Midlands

#### Discipline: Small Animal

#### Full Time, Part Time, Flexible

#### Up to £55,000 DOE (pro rata)

Here at Scarsdale Vets, we’re on the look out for a Veterinary Surgeon to join our established team on a permanent basis. This role would be split between our Stapenhill & Hilton practices. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established team. If you are looking to specialise, we can provide that opportunity, whether you would like to study for a certificate or offer specialist services or treatments. We have varied surgical and medical caseloads where you will have clinical freedom to follow your own cases with regular opportunities for operating. We’re offering relocation support of up to £5000, as well as a welcome bonus of £5000 (pro rata).

Rota patterns that work for you

We offer flexible working patterns that flex with you and your lifestyle and interests. Whether looking to balance home and work life or around the school timetable we can offer flexibility that works for you. It’s essential that you enjoy what you do so we will work with you to create a role that suits your interest and skill set. A typical full time role would involve working 38 hours per week over a 4 day week, along with our shared weekend rota. You’ll receive time back in lieu for all weekend work.

A bit about us

We are a multisite practice situated in the Midlands. In addition to our main RCVS Tier 3 accredited hospital we have 8 practice sites – all our sites are accredited by the RCVS under the Practice Standards Scheme. We have a talented and enthusiastic team of Veterinary Surgeons, as well as our roster of New Grad Vets that supported by an exceptional team of Registered Veterinary Nurses, Veterinary Care Assistants and Client Care Advisors.

Many of our team, both vets and nurses, are certificate holders including Medicine, Surgery, ECC, Ophthalmology and Imaging and we actively encourage and support Certificate study. Our main hospital at Derby is well equipped with a CT scanner, MRI, Advanced Ultrasound, Endoscopy, Digital X-ray, Dental radiography, and multiple surgical suites, as well as an onsite hydrotherapy & rehabilitation centre and benefits from a multi-disciplinary specialist led referral service.

A great place to live and work

Centrally located, there are great transport links to the rest of the country. From Burton on Trent station, trains run  the main commuter routes to many cities like Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham . For car travel, the A6 links Derbyshire to Leicester and Manchester and the M1 takes you south to London or north to Sheffield and Leeds making it an ideal location for visiting friends and family and East Midlands airport is just 30 minutes away. We are in close to the picturesque Peak District National park for those who enjoy walking, climbing, cycling and water activities. For those who love culture there is a good variety of entertainment at Derby Theatre, local gigs, and country houses.

Helping you to achieve

At Scarsdale Vets we are committed to our team members career development and providing opportunities and the support required to achieve your goals. By joining our team, you will also benefit from access to a UK network of learning and development resources to support your career aspirations, weekly clinical clubs and monthly journal clubs as well as monthly CPD evenings led by the referral team.

Because our people matter

We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from -

Work-life balance

- 6.6 weeks annual leave

- Additional holiday entitlement for your birthday

Wellbeing

- Private Medical Insurance

- Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 confidential helpline

- Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay

- Initiatives focused on colleague wellbeing

Development

- £1250 CPD allowance with 40 hours paid CPD leave (pro rata)

- Certificate support

- Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy

- Access to Vetlexicon – our online encyclopaedia provider

- All our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding

- All our Vets get £1250 per annum to spend via our Care Fund

- Infection Prevention and Control Programme

- Quality Improvement Programme

Professional Memberships

- BVA membership

- VDS cover

- RCVS fees

Colleague Benefits

- Company pension scheme. IVC Evidensia will make a contribution as well

- Supporting a greener commute to work with a Cycle to Work scheme and Green Cars Scheme, subject to eligibility criteria

- Voluntary benefits: we give you the flexibility to choose from a range of voluntary benefits to suit you

- Access to discounts/cashback with hundreds of participating retailers

- Discounted treatment for your own pets at an IVC Evidensia practice

At IVC Evidensia we are a committed to Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

#### Scarsdale Vets, Stapenhill

90 Spring Terrace Road, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, DE15 9DX, United Kingdom

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Animals treated

Dogs, cats & small pets

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At IVC Evidensia we are a committed to Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

Any questions before applying?

Speak to Marcus Alphonso from our recruitment team who would be happy to help you with any questions you have before applying for this role.

Talent Partner

Marcus Alphonso

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