Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon

About the Role

This is a permanent opportunity to join a fast-paced, hospital-led small animal practice where clinical development happens through consistent case flow, varied complexity, and real-time support from a multi-disciplinary team. You'll work full-time on 4 x 9-hour days with weekends on a 1-in-4 rota (Saturday and Sunday), with no routine out-of-hours commitment. Your focus remains on progressive daytime clinical work fully supported by dedicated twilight and night services.

Cromwell Vets operates with structure, pace, and purpose. This is not a quiet, routine practice but a thriving hospital environment where case volume is consistent, complexity is varied, and you're never working in isolation. Huntingdon offers strong lifestyle balance with excellent transport links across Cambridgeshire; Cambridge is approximately 20 to 30 minutes away, offering academic and cultural opportunities, while surrounding areas provide countryside living and more affordable housing options.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver progressive small animal clinical care within a high-throughput hospital environment
• Manage routine and complex cases with structured support from certificate holders and advanced practitioners
• Participate in structured rounds and case discussions built into the working day
• Engage in collaborative clinical decision-making across Medicine, Surgery, ECC, Imaging, Cardiology, Dentistry, Oncology and Ophthalmology specialisms
• Contribute to in-house monthly CPD and shared learning culture
• Develop clinical confidence through real-time exposure to varied presentations and case volume

Requirements

• RCVS registered Veterinary Surgeon
• 2 to 3 years UK small animal experience preferred
• Confident and proactive, comfortable working in a busy, fast-moving environment
• Strong clinical thinker who enjoys case work-up and collaborative decision-making
• Comfortable with both hospital-based work and branch or sole charge practice
• Highly motivated with genuine desire to develop clinically at pace
• Team-focused, resilient and engaged in continuous learning
• Certificate interest or ambition strongly welcomed and actively supported

Benefits

• Salary: £45,000 to £65,000 FTE depending on experience
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and birthday leave
• RCVS and VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programme
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay and enhanced equal family leave
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
• Wellness programme including employee assistance programme, eyecare voucher scheme and free annual flu jab
• Cycle to work scheme

About the Practice

Cromwell Vets is a large RCVS-accredited hospital in Huntingdon supported by five branch practices across Cambridgeshire. The hospital is purpose-built for a high caseload and equipped to manage advanced and complex cases in-house, including advanced imaging, digital radiography, full endoscopy suite (gastroscopy, bronchoscopy and rigid endoscopy), laparoscopy, dental radiography and comprehensive anaesthetic monitoring.

The 26-vet clinical team includes multiple certificate holders and advanced practitioners across core disciplines: Medicine, Soft Tissue and Orthopaedic Surgery, Cardiology, ECC, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Diagnostic Imaging and Dentistry. This creates a genuinely collaborative environment where cases are discussed, challenged and progressed collectively. The practice holds Gold ISFM Cat Friendly accreditation with dedicated feline facilities and Silver Investors in the Environment accreditation. Cromwell Vets is part of Linnaeus and Mars Veterinary Health, the largest family-owned veterinary company in the world.