Twilight Veterinary Surgeon

Twilight Veterinary Surgeon

Location:

Village Vet Milton, Cambridge

Hours:

Part-time | 5pm–1am | 7 nights on, 14 nights off (average 18.67 hours per week)
Practice:
Village Vet Milton – Vet
24 OOH Hospital Salary: £42,500 per annum (pro-rota)
Not quite days. Not quite nights. Something a little different.

If you enjoy emergency and critical care but don't want to work through the small hours, this could be exactly what you've been looking for.

We're looking for a Twilight Veterinary Surgeon to join our exceptional Vet
24 team, working 5pm–1am on a 7 nights on, 14 nights off rota. You'll sit right at the heart of our hospital's busiest transition period, working alongside our experienced daytime team before seamlessly handing over to our dedicated overnight team.

And this isn't a role where you'll simply stabilize patients and pass them on. We believe in proper work-ups, meaningful treatment and continuity of care. Our patients can stay with us for ongoing investigation and treatment, allowing you to see cases through rather than simply getting them through the night.

It's an unusual opportunity to build your ECC experience, work alongside some of the region's most experienced emergency clinicians and enjoy an exceptional work-life balance.

Why join us?

Work alongside 3 Advanced Practitioners in ECC, alongside multiple certificate holders across the wider team.

Join one of the few RCVS Tier 3 Hospitals in Cambridgeshire.

Spend the majority of your shift in emergency consultations and directing initial stabilization, with the opportunity to follow cases through their diagnostic work-up, hospitalisation and, where appropriate, surgery.

Work with a large and varied emergency caseload generated by our five Village Vet practices and around 20 surrounding veterinary  supported by 4–5 vets, 4–7 RVNs and 1–2 PCAs from the daytime team, before handing over to an experienced night team.

Work alongside a dedicated overnight team of another vet, 2 RVNs, a late PCA and a CCA.Benefit from twilight CCA support, helping manage appointments and allowing vets and nurses to concentrate on clinical care.

Work in a genuinely integrated day, twilight and night team. There are no separate "day" and "night" camps – we work together, communicate well and share responsibility for our patients.

Take advantage of excellent clinical equipment, including digital radiography, advanced ultrasound, a handheld Clarius ultrasound system, endoscopy and an extensive range of in-house blood analysers.

Enjoy strong links with the ECC team at Dick White Referrals, just down the road, providing an additional source of clinical expertise and support.

Join a team that won the 2023 Linnaeus Quality Award, recognising its commitment to high standards of patient care.

The team and practice

Village Vet Milton is a thriving 24-hour hospital just north of Cambridge and one of only a handful of RCVS Tier 3 accredited hospitals in Cambridgeshire.

Vet
24 provides emergency and critical care for our five-site Village Vet group, as well as around 20 surrounding veterinary practices. As a result, the caseload is both high and varied, giving you exposure to a broad range of emergency presentations rather than the more predictable caseload you might find in a typical first opinion practice.

During your twilight shift, you'll work closely with the daytime team of 4–5 vets and 4–7 RVNs, before handing over to a dedicated overnight team consisting of another vet, 2 RVNs and additional support staff.

Our approach to OOH care is something we're particularly proud of. We don't operate on a "stabilise and ship out at dawn" model. Where appropriate, patients are admitted for proper investigation, treatment and ongoing hospitalisation, giving our clinicians the opportunity…