Practice Ownership at Vets for Pets Southend Airport

Vets for Pets Southend Airport is a busy, profitable practice with impressive year-on-year growth, currently averaging between 220-260 visits per week.

It is a well-established and highly regarded practice in the area, on a spacious mezzanine level inside a Pets at Home store on the Southend Airport retail park. The in-store position provides a great commercial opportunity to continue to work together with the store team, developing ways to drive footfall and increase engagement.

The practice has been RCVS PSS-accredited since 2018 and an RVN training practice since 2015. The practice was also awarded RVN training practice of the year for 2021.

There are 3 consult rooms, open-plan dispensary, prep area and lab area, theatre, separate cat and dog wards (with one walk-in kennel), an isolation room, a small kitchen/office and a separate toilet. There is plenty of free onsite parking for clients and colleagues and the practice is minutes from the A127. The Greater Anglia train line runs alongside, with great links to London and beyond. The airport is once again expanding its flight offerings following the pandemic, so this will offer even more opportunities for travel in the future.

On offer to a potential partner(s) is a high-performing practice with an excellent, dedicated team of colleagues, with approximately 4,000 active clients, split canine/feline and small furries.

The practice prides itself on its friendly and welcoming team members – they are very much a ‘family’ who support each other and are dedicated to providing an outstanding service for clients and their pets.

The practice owner, practice manager, and head nurse have all been with the practice since it opened seven years ago. There are two full-time vets, two RVNs, a student nurse and three receptionists. 

Front of house there is a strong reception team in place, supported by the practice manager.

There are many excellent online client reviews for the practice, a testament to the level of care and compassion provided by the whole team.

The practice boasts

• a comprehensive Storz endoscopy suite, which was brand new in 2021. It comprises of a fibrescope, rhinoscope and gastroscope, allowing many different procedures and investigations to be performed.
• 2 anaesthetic machines that use the piped oxygen set up already present. Oxygen is piped to one consult room, theatre, prep area and the dog and cat wards
• X-ray machine in the same consult room as the piped oxygen
• AGFA CR30 –X digital x-ray processor
• Colour Doppler ultrasound machine
• Dental machine
• Lab equipment consists of Abaxis blood machines, Idexx Snap Pro and a Zeiss Primostar 3 microscope which was new in 2021
• Theatre equipment consists of suction, a multiparameter machine for ECG and capnography together with a diathermy machine

Practice ownership with Vets for Pets is the only model in the industry that gives you clinical autonomy. You're independent to make your own clinical and practice-based decisions, allowing you to run your practice, your way, and enables you to have the freedom to make the best decisions for your patients.

Partnering with us offers an affordable route to ownership, making the dream of owning your own practice more achievable than ever. 

We have 12 dedicated departments to support you in all aspects of business, setting you on the path to success. Our model includes a guaranteed salary from day one, whilst having the security of being part of a wider group.

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