Head Veterinary Surgeon or Veterinary Duo

Regan Veterinary Group at Holly House in Wigan, Greater Manchester, is on the lookout for a dynamic Head Veterinary Surgeon – or an ambitious veterinary duo ready to lead together. Whether you're already working alongside your veterinary partner or know someone you'd love to team up with, this could be the perfect opportunity to grow together.

We offer a competitive salary of up to £75k (with potential for higher for Advanced Practitioners), plus a comprehensive benefits package. Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with a 4-day week, 1 in 4 Saturdays, and no out-of-hours commitments.

This is a permanent, full-time role ideal for a passionate Head Veterinary Surgeon looking for their next challenge — and with our practice's growth potential, there's room for your partner to thrive too, whether they're clinical or support-focused.

You'll be joining a well-established practice, with strong roots in the community and big plans for the future. Plus, you'll have the support of an experienced management team, including Advanced Practitioners in both Ophthalmology and Surgery – ready to back you every step of the way.

This role comes with responsibility over 2 of our clinics, Holly House Veterinary Surgery in Hindley and Little Lane Veterinary Surgery in Wigan. You will be joining a wider team of 5 existing senior vets and over 20 vets across, 6 sites with multiple certificate holders managing first opinion and internal referral cases.

We run both first-opinion clinics and Advanced Practitioner-led referral clinics. Across all our clinics, we have a multidisciplinary team that provides support in many disciplines, including surgery, ophthalmology, diagnostic imaging, and medicine.

We are a high-end first opinion practice and would look for someone who would be keen to work cases up thoroughly, create their own bonded client base and communicate clearly with our clients. If you want to work in a “jab and go” manner, we would not be the right practice for you. We do expect our team to be able to justify their clinical decision-making/frameworks through evidence-based medicine whilst maintaining a pragmatic approach to cases where there may be financial sensitivity.

We have regular quality improvement meetings within the practice to encourage case discussions. We have, submitted two pieces of work to the RCVS QI awards scheme, one on informed client consent and one on improving clinical outcomes in patients presenting with ‘sore eyes'.

Our practice leadership team proactively seek to have open and honest discussions with all the team and in the last year have focussed on ensuring all staff members get regular scheduled 1-2-1 discussions to ensure opportunities to discuss how our team are all doing. The culture within this group has been developed to ensure all the team feel they can have their say and feel listened to.

We don't always get everything right, but we are also very happy to own our mistakes and learn from them and this is mirrored in the ‘no blame' culture across the whole team, which we think is key to ensuring the progression of our team. We will always have your back.

We know our chosen profession can place a lot of stress on our hugely compassionate team. We look to proactively support our team's emotional wellbeing, so alongside the excellent employee assistance support scheme programme you will have access to; there are onsite mental health first aiders who are trained in supporting people who may have mental health struggles. To us, open and honest discussions about any such matter help us support our team as best we possibly can.

We have all the normal equipment, additionally, we offer laparoscopic surgery, an operating microscope, and advanced orthopaedic, soft tissue and ophthalmology equipment. If any of our team want us to consider adding to our facilities, we would help guide you in your research with this and should this be viable, we would actively support the installation of new facilities with training and marketing.

“Holly House has been my place of work for the last 9 years and I have been part of the Regan family for much…