Lead Veterinary Surgeon

Essex, England, United Kingdom

7/13/2025

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Job Title: Lead Veterinary Surgeon

Location: Cherrydown Vets, Basildon, Essex

Hours: Full time, 40 hours over a 4- day week, 1 in 4 Saturday rota, No OOH’s. Part-time and flexible working patters considered.

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.

Cherrydown Vets Basildon are seeking an experienced Veterinary Surgeon for a Leadership role!

We are looking for an enthusiastic Vet Lead for our clinical team. You will work alongside our Clinical Nursing Manager to develop opportunities within the team and help ensure quality pet care is offered to all our patients. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact within an Essex clinic, as part of a 4 Vet and wonderful nursing and support team!

Why Join us?

• Excellent opportunity to really make your mark and develop the practice.
• Supported by the Practice Director, Practice Manager and Clinical Nursing Manager
• Cherrydown Vets is well equipped with a large imaging suite, new X-ray machine, Laparoscopy kit, 5 consults rooms, 2 operating theatre, separate cattery and kennels and goodbye room.
• We work closely with surrounding specialist hospitals and are five minutes away from Southfields.
• Great location, accessible from Essex and part of London. Only a short walk from the train station.
• Discussions around flexible working patterns welcome! We recognise the importance of work-life balance so we can be flexible with working hours/patterns for the right candidate.
  
  

What we are looking for:

• A strong leader who enjoys a challenge and would like to drive a wonderful team forward.
• Previous Senior or Lead Vet experience is desirable; however, you will be very well supported by a highly experienced Practice Director who can support and guide on business decisions. Working with you to develop your leadership skills
• Strong routine surgical skills.
• Good understanding of finances, line management and business strategy.
• A GDP advisor or someone who would like to train to become a GDP advisor is desirable.
  
  

Key responsibilities:

• Support clinical delivery in the business
• Maintain the highest standards of your own clinical delivery
• Understand and utilise all Associates’ skills to maximise provision of services appropriate to clinical qualifications and roles within the business; collaborate with other teams in the practice to ensure team approach
• Support recruitment, training and mentoring of the entire veterinary team to enable sustained success clinically, financially and operationally and in terms of quality and education
• Identify any performance issues within the clinical delivery and support and understand reasons for this; implement plans to improve with empathy
  
  

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday a year plus birthday leave and bank holidays
• RCVS and VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded, including certificates (on approval)
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programmes
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellness program including:
• Employee assistance programme
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Free annual Flu jab
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
  
  

If you are interested in hearing more about this role, or discuss in more detail, click apply or contact [email protected]