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Vacancies & Veterinary Careers at Carisbrooke Vets

We’re always open to hearing from qualified vets, nurses and support team professionals who are interested in joining our practice.

Our branches in Newport, Sandown and Freshwater have been providing high quality veterinary care since the 1960s, and as an Isle of Wight practice we’re naturally surrounded by beautiful coastlines and views.

Our team members enjoy a varied caseload, and we offer a range of consultations and services such as hydrotherapy and acupuncture at our Sandown and Freshwater branches.

Our main Newport surgery is a mixed site with outstanding facilities, allowing us to offer a wide range of small animal, exotic and farm services to our patients and clients.

If you’re interested in emergency and critical care, we also run our own in-house out of hours service from this branch.

If you have a passion for small animal and exotic care, our dedicated small animal branches in Sandown and Freshwater also offer a range of consultations, allowing our team to really get to know local clients and pets.

We believe that continued learning and development opportunities are vital, and actively encourage our team members to work towards extra qualifications and certificates.

As part of the VetPartners group of practices, we can offer a generous CPD allowance and the support of a wider network of practices in the UK and beyond.

We’re proud to be an approved veterinary nurse training practice, and can take in veterinary students for extra mural study. We’re also able to offer work experience opportunities for local over 16s.

For a confidential, informal chat about our availability, get in touch.

 

Vet Vacancy

We’re looking for a Small Animal Vet to join our mixed practice on the ‘tropical’ Isle of Wight with lots of variety in caseload and the opportunity to work cases up to a high level.

The island is only a short ferry trip from the mainland (Southampton, Portsmouth, or Lymington) and has very easy access to Southampton airport and fast train links to London. You would be joining a young, vibrant, and supportive team with a wide range of interests and experience. We also pay for four return car ferry crossing per year for our vets.

Our team currently consists of sixteen vets, sixteen nurses, three animal care assistants and a supportive management/admin team.

Maybe you’d be interested in dipping your toe into farm animal work in a supportive and friendly environment alongside a variety of SA work? We’d love to support you in your journey. We have a very varied caseload including exotics, farm and small.

The rota:

 

You would be working a 4-day week with a 1 in 10 OOH rota and no full weekends, we are lucky to have an on-call nurse available to help our vets, as well as a second Vet on call. We are welcome to all experience levels.

If you’re a New Graduate vet, you also have the opportunity of joining our fantastic Graduate Development Programme. As part of the VetPartners group, this programme means you will be able to embrace a blended learning approach of training days, in-house mentoring, CPD, and clinical practice, creating a varied platform for you to grow and develop as a Veterinary Surgeon. You will be offered both supportive 1-to-1 and group mentoring sessions, for engagement and interaction, as you develop an invaluable skillset. From surgical/medical experience, to enjoying teamwork, providing refined customer service, and gaining business knowledge to support the security of great patient care.

You can find out more about the programme at: https://vetpartners.co.uk/graduates/

 

 

Benefits include:

 

  • Health Shield – wide ranging contributions for health and wellbeing treatments – from dentistry to sports massage
  • 7.6 weeks paid holiday including bank holidays (pro rata)
  • £1750 CPD Allowance per annum or Part of VetPartners Graduate Development Programme
  • RCVS Membership paid
  • Two other membership subscriptions
  • VDS cover
  • Enhanced paternity, maternity, adoption, shared parental leave and surrogacy pay
  • Discounted veterinary fees
  • My Perks – offers, discounts and cashback on shopping, travel, entertainment and much more
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • CPD/training support
  • Company sick pay
  • Colleague engagement survey
  • Annual pay reviews
  • Focus on employee wellbeing
  • Career progression opportunities

 

If you are interested in the role and would like to gain further information, please email [email protected]

 

Farm Vet Vacancy

Unique and flexible role available for a farm vet with a passion for proactive livestock health and welfare and sustainable food production.

We are looking to recruit a motivated, enthusiastic vet to support our wonderful farm clients on the beautiful Isle of Wight.

Maybe you’d like to work part time? We can accommodate a 3 or 4 day working week alongside our 1 in 4 out of hours rota.

Maybe you’d be interested in dipping your toe into small animal work in a supportive and friendly environment alongside a variety of farm work? We’d love to support you in your journey.

The Isle of Wight is a UNESCO biosphere – recognised as a unique natural and cultural environment. It’s a great place to live and work – with surf, sea swimming, mountain bike riding and sea eagles on your doorstep as well as easy access to cross channel ports, airports and direct trains from Portsmouth and Southampton to central London.

We’d love to hear from you whatever your aspirations – whilst ideally we are looking for someone with some experience who’d like to drive the farm side of the practice forward – we are also open to enquiries from newer graduates and are committed to supporting all members of clinical staff through a fantastic Graduate Development Programme (see more info here: https://vetpartners.co.uk/graduates/) as well as our links to the wider Vet Partners community UK wide.

The farm side of our practice looks after the 10,000 cattle on the Island – mostly beef as well as about 30,000 breeding ewes. Many of our clients are working towards greater sustainability in their enterprises and we believe that as Vets we have a big role to play in empowering and supporting these farms in their transition. We run regular client meetings – with recent topics including integrated parasite management, dung beetle safaris (!), anti-microbial stewardship and heifer selection. We would love you to do more of this – and will support you through a generous CPD budget as well as the usual farm practice toys. We’ve also taken groups of clients on days and weekends away to the mainland visiting progressive farms further afield and supporting them in translating knowledge into practice once they get back home. Our uptake of Annual Health and Welfare Review visits has been impressive and we are committed to continuing to provide this high level of proactive care going forward. We are in a 48 month Tb testing parish and are currently training an ATT so your time can be spent on clinical work with very little routine testing. Out of hours is currently a quiet 1 in 4 rota.

We also treat other species including goats, camelids, the occasional pig and back yard chickens. The practice employs 16 vets with a wide variety of specialisms so if you’re secretly harbouring a passion for raptors, capuchin monkeys or tapirs, we’d be happy to accommodate that – if not then there’s no pressure to see the multitude of exotics that pass through the clinic!

Clinical freedom is an important part of our ethos – but we also benefit from the support of the wider Vet Partners community which brings a wide range of employment benefits which we would be happy to discuss. We welcome informal enquiries – either to the Clinical Directors or the current post holder. We’d also love you to come and see us for yourself – come and spend a few days on this beautiful Island and we’d be happy to show you how we work as well as some of the things we think are so great about our island and our clients.

 

Please feel free to email with informal enquiries in the first instance to [email protected]

 

Or submit your cv and a covering letter, telling us what you could bring to this role – and how we might be able to work together to create a fulfilling and stimulating role.

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