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Job Title: Veterinary Surgeon
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum (D.O.E) + Welcome Bonus of up to £5,000 (direct applicants only)
Location: Donnachie and Townley Veterinary Centre, Stafford & Rugeley
Job Type: Permanent, Full-time
Hours: 40 hours per week over 4 days, with a 1:3 Saturday morning rota only (included within these 40 hours) and No Out-of-Hours
Are you a Veterinary Surgeon with a passion for surgery looking for a role where you can use your surgical skills while still enjoying the variety of first opinion practice?
Whether you're an experienced surgeon or simply looking for a practice that will support your clinical interests, we'd love to hear from you.
Join Donnachie & Townley, where compassion, clinical excellence, and career progression go hand in hand. We offer the flexibility to shape your caseload around your strengths and ambitions, within a supportive and collaborative team committed to delivering exceptional patient care.
Why Join Us?
- Surgery encouraged and supported: If surgery is your passion, we can tailor your rota to provide increased surgical time and exposure to a varied first opinion surgical caseload. Whether you enjoy soft tissue surgery, have an orthopaedic interest, or are looking to further develop your skills, you'll be fully supported with dedicated operating time, excellent facilities, and funded CPD.
- Flexible caseload to suit your interests: A typical week includes one surgery day, one consulting day and two mixed days, but we're happy to adapt this balance to reflect your clinical interests, whether that's surgery, medicine or a true mix of both.
- Established and respected practice: Donnachie & Townley Veterinary Centre has proudly cared for the local community for over 30 years across our two well-established small animal sites in Stafford and Rugeley.
- Modern, purpose-equipped facilities: Our recently renovated, spacious practices are equipped with everything you need to provide outstanding care, including two operating theatres at Rugeley (linked by glass), digital radiography, dental radiography, ultrasound, in-house laboratory equipment and a Vista scanner.
- High clinical standards: We are proud to hold Silver Cat Friendly status across both sites, Silver RWAF accreditation, Dog Friendly status, and Green Investors in the Environment (iiE) accreditation.
- Fantastic location: Based in two attractive market towns just 50 minutes from Birmingham, you'll enjoy the perfect balance of countryside living with excellent transport links and Birmingham Airport only an hour away.
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Our Team
You'll be joining a welcoming team of 3.5 Veterinary Surgeons, plus one New Graduate Vet, a skilled nursing team, and a friendly front-of-house team who all work closely together to provide exceptional patient care.
Our Schedule 3-trained nurses play an active role in the clinical workload, allowing our vets to focus on diagnosis, surgery and case management. We actively encourage CPD and further qualifications, supporting individual career aspirations whether your interests lie in surgery, medicine or another clinical discipline.
As part of the Linnaeus network, we work closely with neighbouring practices, giving you access to a wider range of expertise, facilities, referral support and shared CPD opportunities. This collaborative approach allows us to support more complex cases while maintaining excellent continuity of care for our clients.
We pride ourselves on our friendly, close-knit culture where teamwork, clinical discussion and supporting one another are at the heart of everything we do. As a long-established local practice, we value building lasting relationships with our clients and seeing cases through from start to finish.
What We're Looking For
- An RCVS-registered Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon who is confident with routine first opinion practice.
- A Veterinary Surgeon with an interest in surgery, or someone keen to develop their surgical skills further. Certificate study and advanced CPD are actively encouraged and supported.
- Equally, we welcome applications from vets with interests in medicine or general practice—we're committed to shaping the role around the right person.
- Someone who enjoys working collaboratively, values high clinical standards, and is passionate about delivering outstanding patient and client care.
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What We Offer
- 5-weeks holiday plus bank holidays and birthday leave
- Relocation support
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- Employer contribution pension scheme
- Life assurance
- E-car salary sacrifice scheme
- Enhanced equal family leave
- Extensive internal and funded external CPD
About Us
Donnachie and Townley 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 driven by our purpose, to create a better world, and think long-term as opposed to being focused solely on short-term profits.
At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people. Our Associates are over 6000 strong and empowered to speak up, step up and deliver quality services. You’ll have access to a huge network of specialists, worldwide development opportunities and an easily accessible, comprehensive wellbeing package that prioritises your physical and mental health, allowing you to focus on what you do best – care for pets.
We are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse, we care about you and want you to be authentic, with everything you need to perform at your best. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to achieve our purpose.
To apply, please complete the quick application form below. Alternatively, for more information please contact Lissa at Lissa.Semerdak@linnaeusgroup.co.uk or call 07523268918
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