Veterinary Surgeon (surgical bias)

Job Title: Veterinary Surgeon (surgical bias)

Salary: £60,000 (dependent on experience)

Location: Calder Vets - Dewsbury

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time - 40 hours

Join our dynamic team at Calder Vets Dewsbury Hospital as a Primary Care Veterinary Surgeon with a strong surgical focus!

If you are eager to be part of a supportive and collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you!

We are seeking a motivated Veterinary Surgeon, ideally with a Surgical Certificate (or currently pursuing one), who excels in communication and teamwork to work alongside our amazing team. At Calder, you'll thrive among a friendly team that values your input and fosters engaging case discussions, ensuring you grow both personally and professionally.

We are looking for

• Veterinary Degree Registrable in the UK, enabling full MRCVS status
• Excellent communication skills
• A can-do attitude, determination, and positivity
• Strong team ethos
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.

There are no out of hours duties as we have a dedicated, on-site night team but some contribution to weekend days is required.

The team

Our ethos is clinical excellence and we try and live by our core values. Client and patient care are at the heart of what we do, and we are proud to be Cat-Friendly in many of our clinics. We run on 15-minute consults as a minimum.

Calder Veterinary is a high-quality primary care and referral practice with 8 clinics across South and West Yorkshire, including a 24/7 Tier 3 Hospital. We are proud to provide our own 24-hour on-site emergency care through our dedicated ECC night team. We offer a full range of primary care services, such as consultations, preventative healthcare, vaccinations, routine and non-routine surgery, dentistry and imaging (x-ray, ultrasound). We are also able to offer some advanced services such as laparoscopy, endoscopy, soft tissue and orthopaedic surgeries, cardiology and CT, and we have our own rehabilitation service with physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and laser therapy.

We have a fantastic team across all of our sites, and we all support each other. We often discuss clinical cases and get involved in social events. We have a large vet team and are supported by fantastic nursing and front-of-house teams. Many of our vets are working towards certificates in their area of interest or advanced practitioner status.

The Dewsbury hospital is purpose built and includes the following:

• Attractive building with good client parking and large client bases
• Large waiting room with separate cat/dog areas
• Friendly well established team
• Comfortable, spacious staff rest area
• Air conditioned consulting rooms
• 15 minute consults minimum
• Silver Cat Friendly
• Fully equipped theatres
• Xray, good quality ultrasound scanner, and CT on site.
• Dental area with X-ray
• Middle tier referrals seen on site

Calder has a long established reputation for clinical excellence and are looking for a colleague who would share in our core values. We are also a friendly, welcoming, supportive team who enjoy bringing fun into the workplace. We are strong advocates for wellbeing at work with trained mental health advisors available on site and we firmly believe that all associates should have a voice within the company.We believe that sustainability is an important part of our future and we have just been awarded Investors in the Environment Bronze Award.

What we offer

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• RCVS & VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Wellness program including:
• Employee assistance program
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Free annual Flu jab
• Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with