Internal Medicine Veterinary Surgeon

At Wanstead Veterinary Hospital we have an internal medicine role available that will provide a vet with this area of expertise the ability to thrive and help support our junior vets.

Before we delve into the nitty gritty, here is what we offer you:

The salary band for this full-time position is £45,000 to £73,000 (FTE) depending on prior experience and growth within the role.

As a Goddard Vet you will benefit from:

- 6.6 weeks annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Generous relocation assistance

- CPD budget every year

- 5 days’ paid CPD leave every year 

- Private Medical Insurance

- Colleague introduction reward

- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme

- Medical cashback plan. Refunds on many routine medical costs such as dental care, physiotherapy, optician, chiropractic fees, and more

- Professional membership fees covered

- Shopping discounts

- Generous colleague discounts

- Petplan 20% colleague discount

About the role

We are ideally looking for an applicant with an internal medicine certificate (although not a necessity) or a strong GP vet looking to focus more on medicine, particularly diagnostic imaging, and who wants to work in a fast-paced hospital with a large and complex case load enabling them to develop their skills in this area.

This full-time role is based on a 40-hour week, inclusive of weekend rotation, and involves a fair on-call rotation and 2 bank holidays per year.


The shift pattern is made up of 9am to 7pm and 12pm to 10pm shifts, so you will have the opportunity to work with both our day and dedicated night team.

Wanstead Veterinary Hospital provides an excellent first opinion, emergency, critical care, and referral service to our clients and local network of 20 branches and works to the highest clinical standards.

There is excellent diagnostic support, with a CT scanner, a commercial laboratory, a strong medical team that you will be part of, and experienced surgeons routinely conducting advanced orthopaedic, soft tissue, and minimally invasive surgery all available on site.

You will also be fully supported by a team of experienced hospital vets including certificate holders, our incredible nursing team made up of experienced RVN's, students, nursing assistants and front of house team, as well as on site clinical managers.

Wanstead itself is on the outskirts of leafy Essex, but has quick and direct transport links that take you straight into all areas of London! There is a bustling café and restaurant culture in Wanstead so you will never be short of places to visit for a treat.

About us

In 2022 we celebrated our 70th anniversary and have 44 branches, 3 hospitals and our own nurse training college. We value all of our colleagues and our forward-looking approach means we have introduced a Colleague Forum to listen to our peers’ views, as well as monthly Town Hall meetings with our board of directors, communicating real time updates, taking polls with live Q&A’s to ensure we’re making the right, collaborative decisions for our people. All our senior managers are mental health first aid trained and we offer Wellness plans for all our new starters.

If you can see yourself in this role press apply now, and within 60 seconds your application will be with our recruitment manager Rose. Alternatively, please feel free to email her directly at rstanton@goddardvetgroup.co.uk for any other queries or to simply arrange a call and have a chat about other opportunities!