Senior Veterinary Surgeon

Overview

• Providing high-quality clinical care across consultations, surgery and inpatient work
• Being a friendly, approachable and supportive colleague to vets of all experience levels
• Mentoring and encouraging less experienced vets as part of everyday practice
• Taking part in protected mentoring time and two-weekly case discussions
• Sharing your knowledge, experience and those little tips you pick up over the years
• Working closely with our fantastic veterinary and nursing team
• Sharing ideas and helping shape how we work as a practice
• Helping create a positive, open and inclusive team culture
• RCVS-registered Veterinary Surgeon with solid small animal experience
• An experienced and confident clinician who enjoys being hands-on
• Kind, approachable and genuinely interested in helping others
• A natural team player who enjoys working collaboratively rather than in isolation
• Someone who is happy to share knowledge without ever making others feel silly for asking questions
• Patient, supportive and willing to see things from someone else’s perspective
• Someone who understands that being a senior vet isn’t about knowing everything — it’s about being someone others can rely on
• Salary up to £70,000 depending on experience
• Five weeks’ holiday plus bank holidays and birthday leave
• RCVS and VDS fees paid
• Fully funded CPD, including certificates
• Access to a wide range of Linnaeus online CPD
• Genuine support for professional development and leadership
• Staff discounts
• Life assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer pension contribution
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders within the practice
• Eye care vouchers
• Free annual flu jab
• Cycle to work scheme
• Referral reward scheme

Job Title: Senior Veterinary Surgeon

Salary: Up to £70,000 DOE

Location: St Clair Vets

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week, 4-day week, 1:4 weekends (Saturday morning) with time off in lieu, no OOH’s.

Are you an experienced vet who still loves being hands-on and clinical, but also gets a real buzz from helping others grow?

Are you the kind of person colleagues naturally come to for advice, reassurance or a second opinion?

We’re looking for a kind, experienced Senior Vet to join our team — someone who enjoys sharing their knowledge, supporting others and being part of a genuinely collaborative practice.

The Role

This is a senior, hands-on clinical role for someone who enjoys both the medicine and the people side of veterinary practice. You’ll have a varied small animal caseload while becoming an important source of support, experience and encouragement for junior vets and recent graduates.

We’re looking for someone who is happy to share what they know, talk through a tricky case over a coffee and reassure someone when they’re not quite sure what to do next. You don’t need to have all the answers — just the experience, curiosity and kindness to help others find theirs.

Mentoring is part of everyday life at St Clair Vets. We protect time for it and take it seriously, with dedicated case discussions every two weeks alongside plenty of informal opportunities to talk cases, ask questions and learn from each other.

We genuinely believe that veterinary practice is better when we work as a team. We want everyone to feel able to speak up, share ideas and ask for help, whatever their level of experience. Everyone has a voice here — and ideas don’t just get heard, they get tried.

There’s no expectation for you to step away from clinical work or take on heavy management responsibilities. Instead, you’ll lead by example: being a calm and supportive presence, sharing your experience and helping create a team where people enjoy coming to work and feel comfortable being themselves.

What You’ll Be Doing

Who We’re Looking For

What We Offer

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About St Clair Vets

St Clair Vets is a friendly, RCVS‑accredited small animal practice with two branches and an in‑house ophthalmology referral team at Vet Vision. Our caseload is varied and interesting, with excellent access to specialist advice and CPD through Vet Services Scotland.

Culture really matters to us. We value kindness, communication and supporting one another. As a nurse training practice with an established new graduate programme, mentoring and learning are already central to how we work.

We also enjoy spending time together outside of work, with charity events, bake‑offs, Easter activities, outdoor days and a legendary Christmas party. Based in Fife, with easy access to Edinburgh, beaches and countryside, it’s a brilliant place to balance work and life.

St Clair 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.

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