Senior Veterinary Surgeon - Equine

Overview

Salary up to £70,000 DOE plus Welcome Bonus up to £3,000

We’re on the lookout for a passionate Veterinary Surgeon to join our Equine clinic at Brooke, a modern, purpose-built practice that’s part of a close-knit group of five well-established sites across Norfolk. If you are an experienced Equine Vet ready to take the next step in your career, this role is the one!

A Practice Where You Can Truly Thrive

As part of the Chapelfield group, which includes branches in Norwich, Long Stratton, Wymondham, Costessey, and Brooke, we work collaboratively to share knowledge, skills, and resources. This means you’ll always feel supported and connected, whether you’re in branch or chatting cases across sites.

The Equine Clinic in Brooke was purpose built and opened in 2012 in order to provide advanced equine veterinary services for the horses, ponies and donkeys of Norfolk and Suffolk. The clinic is sited in six acres, which allows us the luxury of a full sized manège and covered trot-up areas for lameness, back pain and poor performance investigations, stabling for eight horses including heated mare and foal accommodation, and turn-out paddocks.

Other facilities include: operating theatre, padded induction rooms, treatments rooms and standing stocks for endoscopy, gastroscopy, digital x-ray and ultrasonography. There is a separate unit on the site to house the only equine gamma scintigraphy (bone scan) camera in Norfolk.

We value our place in the local community and proudly support several animal charities. We work closely with Dogs Trust, running weekly operating days at the practice, and also support Cats Protection League, Venture Farm, and other welfare organisations.

We offer flexible working patterns that flex with you and your lifestyle. Whether you are looking to flex your rota hours to balance the school holidays, fix to navigate the school runs or just looking to strike that balance between home and work life. We can offer flexibility that actually works for you.

Working up to 40 hours per week over 4 days - with on call duties on a 1 in 6 rota.

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, inclusive of bank holidays
• 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 employee 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
• Up to £70,000 DOE