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Full time hours. Flexible working. Varied Caseload. Up to £60,000
If you’re an experienced vet who has ambition to develop further and would like a unique career path built specifically for you, then we have the role for you here at Tilehurst Vets for Pets.

We have a friendly and inclusive team made up of an experienced front of house team, two fully qualified RVN’s, two student nurses and one newly appointed Veterinary Care Assistant. We also have a newly appointed Clinical Nurse Practice Manager and Clinical Director with 20 years of clinical experience (advanced practitioner in emergency and critical care, with additional post-graduate certificate in feline medicine, currently undergoing a post-graduate training in ophthalmology).

Our busy and bustling practice carry out a varied caseload typically with cats, dogs and small furies, mainly rabbits, ferrets and guinea pigs. We cover all aspects of internal medicine & surgery, including routine surgeries (neutering and castrations as well as more advanced procedures such as splenectomies, GDVs, anal gland removals, foreign object removals, colonic surgeries, caesarean sections, cystotomies and nephrectomies.  We also perform full abdominal and chest ultrasounds as basic echocardiography. We also perform full dentals with the aid of our advanced dental radiographs. We have also an increased number of successful in-house ophthalmology cases.

We’re looking to expand our ophthalmology service as soon as we have purchased additional equipment such as slit lamp and tonopen but we have the typical equipment in practice including dental x ray, regular x ray, ultrasound machine, fully equipped surgical theatre with multiparameter monitoring, infusion pumps and syringe drivers.

As standard, in addition to a salary of up to £60,000 FTE we offer all the benefits you’d expect from a major employer (pension, healthcare, paid memberships etc.) plus a few more, such as excellent career progression and exclusive lifestyle and shopping discounts (up to 30% off at Pets at Home). We’re also happy to provide relocation packages from within or outside the UK, including visa sponsorship if needed (we’re an A+ rated sponsor). We’re ideally looking for a vet to work full time hours in practice but we can consider flexible hours if this works best for you. We’re currently not operating over weekends, but we are looking to open on Saturdays at some point in the future.

Tilehurst Vets for Pets is conveniently located west of Reading town centre, close to the River Thames and South Oxfordshire and its Area of Outstanding Beauty. Being based on a retail park we have several restaurants/shops available to us including B&M, KFC, McDonalds, Halfords, Pure Gym, Waitrose and local independent shops. Even better, if you’re looking at heading further afield, the fast train from Reading Central can land you at Paddington, London in under 30 minutes!

To find out more please contact Jack at [email protected] or to apply below. 

Location: RG30 1PR

“We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!”