Come and join our team in Wick
One of our colleagues is moving home, which means we have an exciting opportunity for a vet to join our team in Wick.
If you are a vet with at least one or two years of experience and enjoy the variety that mixed practice brings, we would love to hear from you.
We are a friendly, independent and employee owned practice with a team of 17 vets. Our practice is genuinely mixed, with around 50% small animal and 50% large animal work, giving you the chance to enjoy a varied caseload while developing your own clinical interests.
In 2023 we became an Employee Ownership Trust, helping to secure the future of our practice as an independent business. Being independent is important to us, and we are proud to have a team where people know each other, support each other and work together.
- Salary of £38,000 to £58,000 depending on experience, with an established pay progression structure
- Professional subscriptions paid
- 29 days holiday each year
- Five days CPD, with a budget that includes travel and accommodation
- Accommodation and a vehicle can be provided
- A varied and interesting mixed practice caseload
- The opportunity to develop your own clinical interests
- A supportive team and good access to colleagues when you need advice
- Membership of the XLVets community of independently owned and progressive veterinary practices, working together to achieve the highest standards of veterinary care
A job that fits around your life
We believe that being a good vet should not mean sacrificing your evenings or your life outside work.
Our normal working day is 8.45am to 5.30pm, with a full hour for lunch. We actively encourage everyone to leave the practice for their lunch break and take some proper time away from work.
At 5.30pm, any outstanding work is handed over to the on call team, so you can finish on time and get home to enjoy your evening.
Our small animal consultations are 15 minutes, with additional time built into the diary for client communication. Across our two branches, we have three vets on call, meaning there is always plenty of support available when you need it.
The current shared out of hours rota is one in five, with a day off in lieu scheduled into your diary.
We are ideally looking for someone to join us full time, although we would also be happy to hear from an experienced vet interested in working part time.
Plenty of opportunity to develop
We have a well equipped practice and a broad range of facilities across small animal, farm animal and equine work.
With such a varied caseload and an experienced team around you, there is plenty of scope to build confidence, gain new skills and develop the areas of veterinary medicine that interest you most.
- Rectal scanners
- Hydraulic foot tipping crate
- EEJ equipment for bull and tup testing
- Vets trained to carry out post mortems at the local SRUC facility
- Reproductive and tendon scanner
- Portable X ray
- Power float for dental work
- DR X ray
- Ultrasound
- Dental X ray with table side processor
- In house blood analysers
- Multiparameter monitoring
- A range of orthopaedic equipment, including a TPLO kit
What are vets say about working at DS McGregor’s
‘I started working at DS McGregor’s as a new graduate in 2023 and I could not have asked for a more supportive, friendly and welcoming team to start out with. The work load is fun and varied, and everyone is encouraged to pursue what interests them, whatever field that might be! Caithness is a stunning county to live and work in, and I genuinely think we have some of the best clients and farmers in Scotland! I love coming to work each day and feel so lucky to have been in such a good environment from day one.’
Cara MacGregor MRCVS 2023 Graduate
‘Thurso has been a very welcoming practice for a new grad in the last year. I’ve felt supported as well as pushed to do anything and everything that comes my way’
Elizabeth Scaife MRCVS 2024 Graduate
Interested?
If you are looking for a role where you can enjoy being a vet, have a good life outside work and become part of a supportive team, we would love to hear from you. Whether you are looking for your next full time position or are an experienced vet interested in part time work, please get in touch for an informal chat.
Contact Pete Cameron on 01955 602088 or email jobs@dsmcg.co.uk.
We would be delighted to tell you more about the practice, the team and what it is like to live and work in Wick.