Acorn Vets have a fantastic opportunity for a passionate Veterinary Surgeon to join the team. To give you an idea of a working day we have 15-minute consultations time slots, dedicated operating days (at least 1-2 per week), care of inpatients, regular client communication allowing for you to build your clientele. We ask that you work as part of the Veterinary and Vet Nursing team to provide gold standard care to our loyal client base.

 

Part-time hours will include up to 21.5 hours over 2 days per week 8:00am until 6:00pm Monday to Friday, 1:4 Saturday mornings on a Rota basis of 8:00am until 12:00pm. No out of hours. 

Acorn Vets is a 2-site practice. The main site on Portland Road has 2 vets working supported by 3-4 vet nurses per day. The Hangleton road branch supports a smaller but tight-knit community and would be sole charge with 2 nurses supporting. Equipment includes in-house laboratory, digital x-ray, ultrasound machine, digital dental x-ray, operating theatre. 

There are local attractions around both sites, a 5-minute walk from a beautiful seafront and a 10-minute drive to the South Downs. Hove is situated within Brighton and is a really fun place to live and work and has great transport links to London. 

We consider staff – change to ‘team’ wellbeing a priority as well as working with our staff – change to ‘team’ to create a good work-life balance which enables us to provide a great and friendly service to our clients, many of whom have been with the practice for several decades. 

Our team consists of 5 Vets, alongside 7 Registered Veterinary Nurses and 2 Student Nurses. We also have ample support from our 5 support team members. We have an exceptionally supportive team in place, and should you pick Acorn as your next place to work, your well-being is one of our top priorities. 

 

We hope to find a vet who is as passionate about animal and client care as well as wanting to be part of a team as we all work closely together and help each other out. We ask that you must be confident to do some days sole charge at our branch practice. You must be registered with the RCVS, preferred 3ys+ qualified and it is essential that you have excellent communication skills. We are seeking a Veterinary Surgeon who is competent in all routine surgeries and ideally more complex ones too, although there is support available, potential for the right candidate to take on a senior vet role to assist the current Clinical Director.

 

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 -