Locum Vet Jobs

Please see below our latest Locum vet roles. We only advertise a small selection of vet locum jobs so please get in touch if you can’t see anything in your area as I am sure we can help.

We donate 25% of ALL profits to one of our four chosen charities

We are a specialist veterinary recruitment business with a social mission at our heart. We have years of experience helping Locum vets find their next dream role.

Whether you have a specific role you are interested in or would like us to connect you with the right practices we are here to help.

Locum Vet
Jobs

Locum Veterinary Surgeon and RVN

Location SAINT LEONARDS ON SEA

Locum Veterinary Surgeon

Location SWINDON

Locum Veterinary Surgeon

Location NORFOLK

Locum Veterinary Surgeon

Location SURREY

Responsibilities

As a Locum Vet, you’ll need to:

Promote and maintain the health of animals
Advise owners on how to care and feed animals
Adhere to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Code of Professional conduct
Know the law surrounding animals and their welfare
Adhere to practices guidelines and procedures
Comply with Health and Safety and COSHH policies
Maintain accurate and up-to-date clinical treatment record
Actively promote both vet locum and permanent roles within the veterinary profession
Undertake regular CPD and liaise with other professionals within the industry
Improve professional clinical standards, quality and safety of care.

Skills

As a Locum Vet, you are expected to:

Meet and consult with pet and animal owners
Work in a surgery environment, visit animals in the natural surroundings and carry out home visits
Examine and treat a whole range of different species depending on speciality
Prescribe the appropriate treatment and operate if necessary
Carry out tests such as x-rays, blood samples and ultrasound scans
Neuter animals to prevent them from breeding
Immunise animals against different types of disease
Euthanise old and terminally ill animals
Diagnose illnesses in a variety of different animals
Handle uncooperative animals and owners
Ensure all work is billed correctly
Working on call as and when required
Have a strong work ethic and caring approach always
Administer regular vaccinations and inoculations
Perform routine and complex operations including, castrations, neutering and post accident
Carrying out a variety of scans including x-rays, haematology, faecal analysis, ultrasounds and biopsies.

Vetfinders
Charter

We have a thorough 15 point recruitment process which covers every aspect of your requirements.
We work with most of the large vet groups and many independent practices so have access to a huge number of roles. With your authorisation we can also market your CV (confidentially) to specific practices as many roles aren’t advertised. If that dream role exists we will find it. There is no need to send your CV anywhere else again!
We are 100% transparent throughout the whole recruitment process and will not send your CV to a practice without authorisation from you. Guaranteed!
Career development. We can develop a career plan for you and review this every few months to make sure you are on track.
We employ an in house career advisor to help with any career advice.
We offer psychometric profiling for all candidates if required. You learn a lot about yourself and it recommends areas for personal growth and development.
Every successful candidate we register we donate £10 to one of our 4 charities.
When we place a candidate a percentage of that fee will go to one of 4 charities we have chosen to work with. You will choose where this money goes and receive regular updates.
Our business is not just transactional and one dimensional, we want to build long term relationship’s with candidates and help you thought out your career.
One of our goals is to build a community of loyal Vets and Nurses who stay with VetFinders and use our services throughout their career.