Night Veterinary Surgeon – Barnsley, South Yorkshire(UK Visa Sponsorship)
Job Description
A Role for Vets Who Want Their Work to Truly Matter
If emergency and critical care is where your clinical passion lies—but you feel increasingly uneasy about profit-driven constraints, rushed decisions, or compromised standards—this role offers a different path.
This is a night ECC position built around purpose, sustainability, and clinical integrity. You will be part of a growing 24/7 hospital service that exists to ensure pets receive the care they need, when they need it, regardless of financial pressure or time of day.
The Opportunity
We are supporting a not-for-profit veterinary organisation in Barnsley as it develops a fully established round-the-clock emergency and critical care hospital. This is not a short-term gap-filling role. It is a chance to help shape a compassionate, well-supported overnight service designed to deliver consistently high standards of care.
As a Night Veterinary Surgeon, you will work on site alongside a qualified Registered Veterinary Nurse, managing a broad and stimulating caseload of medical and surgical ECC cases. You will also be responsible for the ongoing care and monitoring of hospitalised inpatients overnight, ensuring continuity and thoughtful decision-making.
Although you will be the senior clinician on site overnight, you are never professionally isolated. The wider organisation operates across multiple hospitals with 24-hour coverage, meaning experienced colleagues are always available for advice, discussion, and second opinions. Collaboration is an intentional part of the service model.
What Sets This Role Apart
Meaningful ECC practice
This is not limited to stabilisation and referral. You will manage genuine emergency and critical care cases, oversee inpatient treatment plans, and practise the kind of medicine that allows you to think, assess, and treat thoroughly.
A rota designed for recovery
The 7 nights on / 14 nights off pattern provides extended recovery time between blocks, helping you maintain both clinical performance and personal wellbeing.
A service still being shaped
As the hospital continues its transition into a full 24/7 model, your experience and insight will be valued. There is genuine opportunity to contribute to how the overnight service develops.
Your First Six Months
Month one: You will focus on settling into the hospital environment, learning systems and protocols, and building strong working relationships with the nursing team and wider overnight clinical network.
By three months: You will be confidently managing the overnight ECC caseload, leading decision-making while drawing on support as needed, and contributing actively to inpatient care planning.
By six months: You will be an established and trusted member of the night team, with opportunities to pursue further ECC-focused development and to influence the ongoing evolution of the 24/7 service.
- Salary, Time Off, and Working Pattern
- Salary up to £73,902
- 7:14 night rota, averaging 31.1 hours per week
- Six weeks’ annual leave
- Development and Professional Support
- Fully supported CPD
- Funding available for ECC certificates
- Ongoing in-house training and skills development
- Benefits Designed to Support You
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Up to 52 weeks’ sickness benefit after qualifying period
- Private healthcare and employee assistance programme after 12 months
- Visa sponsorship available (subject to eligibility)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff and Vivup retail discounts
- Refer-a-friend bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Professional Standards and External Frameworks
This role operates within recognised UK veterinary, employment, and wellbeing frameworks, including:
UK Government – Veterinary profession and animal welfare (DEFRA): https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs
UK Home Office – Skilled Worker visa route: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
About Candor Vets
Candor Vets works differently. We prioritise long-term fit over quick placements and focus on understanding both the clinician and the organisation. Our conversations are confidential, honest, and never pressured.
