Veterinary Surgeon - Cutting Edge
The Vacancy
Veterinary Surgeon – Cutting Edge
Up to £65,000 depending on clinic, plus benefits
A structured and fully supported route into Emergency and Critical Care (ECC)
Your Passion, Our Purpose.
At Vets Now, we are the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care, delivering expert treatment across our nationwide network of out of hours clinics. We believe that when you bring passion for veterinary, it’s our purpose to provide the training, support, and opportunities you need to thrive.
The Cutting Edge programme has been designed to help veterinary surgeons build a rewarding career in Emergency and Critical Care. Through world-class CPD, interactive seminars, practical sessions, and personalised clinical mentorship, you will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to excel in ECC making a real difference to pets and their families.
Programme highlights:
- 250 hours of CPD delivered by recognised ECC specialists
- 8-week training programme combining interactive seminars and practical sessions
- Hands on experience in your chosen clinic, guided by an experienced senior clinician
- Training at our Central Support hub in Scotland (accommodation provided)
- Opportunities to build your professional network with fellow Cutting Edge participants
Core learning areas include:
- Recognition and management of shock
- Fluid therapy and transfusion medicine
- Respiratory and cardiac emergencies
- Neurological emergencies and trauma
- Surgical emergency wet labs
- Blood gas analysis and point of care ultrasound (POCUS)
- Clinical reasoning and decision making in ECC
- Teamworking and client communication
- Adjusting to night work
Work-life balance that works for you
After completing Cutting Edge, you will join an ECC clinic of your choice on a full time basis. You can choose a rota that suits your lifestyle, working between 30–40 hours per week. Our rotas are carefully designed to support both professional development and personal wellbeing, with no more than three nights in a row and an average of three shifts per week.
You will receive a training salary of £42,250 for the first 8 weeks, rising to up to £65,000 from week 9 depending on your chosen clinic.
Rewards and benefits:
Your passion deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Our comprehensive package includes:
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced maternity (6 months full pay) and family-friendly policies
- Seven weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Paid volunteering days
- £1,500 CPD allowance plus 35 paid hours pro rata (received after 12 months)
- RCVS fees, VECCS membership and VDS cover
- Employee discounts and cashback with hundreds of retailers
- UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Death in service – two times annual salary
Available Clinics
| Middlesbrough | Doncaster | Peterbrough | Barton Le Clay | Bournemouth | Newport |
| Belfast | Preston | Nottingham | Farnham | Portsmouth | Gillingham |
| Chesterfield | Coventry | Wolverhampton | Milton Keynes | Manningtree | Siducp |
| Hull | Wrexham | Barnet | Sutton | Kings Lynn | Witham |
| Bradford | Cheltenham | Northampton | Sailsbury | Herne Bay | Tunbridge Wells |
| Ashford |
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Who we’re looking for
You should have at least six months’ small animal experience and be confident consulting and performing routine surgical procedures sole charge.
Next intake: 9th March 2026
For more details on the Cutting Edge programme, contact Jess in our Talent team: Jessica.allcock@vets-now.com
Your Passion, Our Purpose together, we can save pets’ lives.
The Company
As the UK’s leading pet emergency service, we have a route to an exciting career in emergency and critical care for veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses, no matter where you are in your career.
Vets Now was founded by Richard Dixon, a veterinary surgeon who understood the pressures of being on-call which also trying to maintain a good quality of life.
Today, almost two decades since Richard did his first out-of-hours shift, we’re still just as passionate about emergency and critical care and our clinics are all managed by people who have worked as frontline vets or vet nurses.
In an emergency, pet owners want to know they’ve got the experts on board. And so do we.
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