Veterinary Surgeon​/Lead Vet

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Veterinary Surgeon/Lead Vet Opportunity

Up to £65,000 per annum (Depending on experience)

Cinque Ports Veterinary Group, Kent

Full-time or Part-time, Permanent

Full-time includes 40 hours per week over 4 days - shifts 08:30-18:30. 1 in 5 Saturdays 08:30-16:30. However, we are fairly flexible based on your preferences.

Are you looking for the next step in your veterinary career? Are you looking to work with an experience team with progression opportunities, maybe even lead the team?

Join us as a Veterinary Surgeon at Cinque Ports Veterinary Group where you can work up cases, carry out consults and surgeries, enjoying the best of both worlds in an exceptionally supportive environment!

Handle a mix of consults, operational shifts and periods of sole charge, working on a wide range of challenging cases while benefiting from the expertise of the wider Cinque Ports group.

Be part of a fantastic group where you can really excel in your role! Kingsnorth offers strong development support, with an experience team. Our practices are fully equipped with facilities including surgical suites, dental x‑ray, digital x‑ray, new ultrasound, and in‑house blood analysis. We can also accommodate a day a week working at our hospital site.

Deliver exceptional care in a truly supportive environment, with access to Vets Now at our Kingsnorth Hospital for overnight inpatient care. Collaborate with an experienced team of Vets with interests in surgery, radiography, anaesthesia, dermatology and dentistry.

Choose to work from either our Rye, Tenterden, or Hawkhurst practices with the added option of spending one day per week designed around you at our Kingsnorth Hospital.

Join a brilliant team of like-minded, ambitious colleagues! We encourage both get‑togethers as well as social activities.

We asked our vets for their feedback on our practice, and here is what they had to say: "Working at Cinque Ports Vets is fabulous! It's all about great organisation, communication, and flexibility to all levels. Couldn't ask for more supportive leadership, who listen, and help with personal professional development, whatever your interests are!"

• RCVS Registered Veterinary Surgeon
• Experience working both consults and surgeries, with confidence as sole charge
• A strong team player with a passion for the delivery of outstanding quality care to patients and clients alike
• A proactive and collaborative mindset that contributes to a positive team culture

Cinque Ports is an RCVS‑Accredited Practice with extensive surgical, diagnostic, and medical facilities across 6 sites in the Kent/East Sussex area. Kingsnorth is an RCVS‑Accredited Hospital with Gold ISFM Accreditation and provides emergency care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with Vets Now onsite providing continuity in cases and patient care. Our branches are more than satellite clinics: each one has its individual specialisms while offering the facilities required to work up cases and perform surgeries, and you will be supported by a full, experienced team of Registered Veterinary Nurses (RVN), that carry out both nurse consults and vaccinations.

We are excellently equipped including in‑house laboratories, ECG, Endoscopy, ultrasound, dentistry x‑ray, client care areas, digital radiography, doppler ultrasonography, laparoscopic equipment, and video endoscope and bronchoscope.

We are proud that Cinque Ports are working towards their Bronze accreditation from Investors in the Environment (iiE).

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
• RCVS and VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E‑car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
• Wellness program including:
• Employee assistance program
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Free annual Flu jab
• Cycle to work scheme

Cinque Ports Vets is part of Linnaeus and Mars Veterinary Health, the largest family‑owned veterinary company in the world. Being privately owned, we can truly be…