Taverham Veterinary Practice has an exciting opportunity for a GP small animal Vet to join our friendly team on a permanent basis. This role is based at our busy first opinion and referral hospital alongside our fantastic team of certificate holders in a range of different disciplines.

The role will involve consultations, surgery, hospital and inpatient shifts, and emergency and out-of-hours care alongside the usual first opinion duties. If you have a particular interest, we will always try to tailor your days to what you enjoy the most!

We know that everyone has demands and priorities outside of their career and we want to make it brilliantly easy for you to strike the right balance. Whether you are looking to fix or flex your work patterns, we can find the right solution for you. Our vets usually work between the hours of 8:00am – 18:30pm and most choose to work their 40 hours over 4 days, however, we are happy to discuss working patterns as we understand how important a good work/life balance is.

There is a share of 1:4 weekends, including out-of-hours work on a rota-basis with our night and twilight team. The successful candidate would be required to work 2 bank holidays per year at the main hospital with time off in lieu for these shifts.

Taverham Vets is an exciting and ever-expanding practice, located in beautiful Norfolk. We pride ourselves on providing great service and care, maintaining high clinical standards and offering a rewarding and progressive career. We accept certificate-level referrals in a range of disciplines and have our own out-of-hours service on-site.

We have excellent facilities, including a new extension and refurbishment of existing hospital is now complete including laparoscopy, CT scanner, new Karl Storx HD endoscopy unit, second Karl Storx laparoscopy/arthroscopy unit, new dental suite, dedicated cat wards with ISFM gold standard kennelling and additional theatres.

We also have 2 super branch practices, which offer a friendly local service to their loyal clients. Last year our practice was awarded 'Outstanding' in 2 of the RCVS PSS awards - 'Emergency and Critical Care' and 'In-Patient Service'.

We have a large team of 34 Vets with 8 new graduates, 41 Nurses and support staff. We are a nurse training practice and offer a structured 2-year programme for new graduate vets. A number of our vets and nurses have achieved and are training for certificates; there is an emphasis on ongoing development and learning.

Our people are advanced in ECC, internal medicine, feline medicine, soft tissue surgery, orthopaedics, diagnostic imaging, dermatology, ophthalmology, cardiology, dentistry, endoscopy & endosurgery. Many of these disciplines we have multiple certificate holders in and many are also AVP status.

The team are enthusiastic and ambitious to continue to improve the services and level of care we can offer. We are a friendly and sociable group who love working together (consistent feedback from appraisals every year is that the best thing about our practice is the fantastic team); we enjoy monthly team meetings and regular social events and activities.

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 -