Neurology Clinician

Your roles and responsibilities

If you are a Specialist in Veterinary Neurology, enjoy working in a team striving to provide the best quality of care based on current evidence, and you would like to match some of the pros of academia (clinical research, supervision and teaching of residents, interns and student), with the financial rewards and challenging caseload of a private practice, this is the chance you have been waiting for!

Dick White Referrals (DWR) is looking for an American or European Diplomate in Neurology to join our Neurology team, including 4 current diplomates, 2 residents, and 2 interns. Founded in 2003 by Professor Dick White, DWR has grown rapidly to become one of the largest private veterinary referral hospital in the UK. DWR is a busy, purpose-built specialist referral-only small animal veterinary hospital conveniently located in Cambridgeshire between Newmarket, the home of horse racing and Cambridge, with its world-renowned University and amenities.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave (pro-rata**)

• RCVS and VDS fees paid

• External CPD funded

• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program

• Career progression opportunities

• Staff discount schemes

• Life Assurance

• Enhanced sickness pay

• Enhanced equal family leave

• E-car salary sacrifice scheme

• Employer contribution pension scheme

• Wellness program including:

  • Employee assistance program

  • Eyecare voucher scheme

  • Free annual Flu jab

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Recruitment referral reward scheme

DWR is moving into state-of-the-art facilities and the hospital is fully equipped with the surgical, diagnostic and hospitalisation facilities commensurate with a flagship specialist veterinary hospital and has an on-site reference laboratory with both in-house clinical pathology and diagnostic histopathology. As part of our ongoing drive for excellence, we have a new building underway onsite that will double the size of our facilities and create a truly world-class hospital. We are dedicated to excellence, trust and care in all we do as a hospital, as an employer and also to the development of veterinary professionals.

We are an Educational Partner with the University of Nottingham and we also have the Dick White Academy onsite and run regular CPD events. Within the anaesthesia team, we have twice weekly teaching sessions, including journal club, case discussions and formal presentations on basic sciences applied to anaesthesia.

The ideal candidate is an ECVN/ACVIM Neurology Diplomate wishing to work full-time or part-time with small animals and horses, but applications from Veterinary Surgeons who have completed a residency in Veterinary Neurology will also be considered. The position becomes available in early 2026. You will work alongside a team of approximately 40 Specialists in various disciplines (soft tissue, orthopaedics, anaesthesia, ophthalmology, internal medicine, emergency and critical care, oncology, cardiology, dermatology, diagnostic imaging, clinical pathology and pathology), who together strive to achieve clinical excellence.

Hours: Full-time. The out-of-hours on-call rota is 1:4, and when on-call during a weekend, two additional days of time off will be given to be spent within the following two weeks.

For informal enquiries, please contact Sian Emery (Talent Acquisition Partner) at Sian.emery@linnaeusgroup.co.uk or if you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button.