Working at CareVets Gisborne
CareVets Gisborne is one of 22 clinics within the CareVets group — a New Zealand privately-owned network of veterinary practices.
While CareVets operates at scale, it isn’t run as a top-down corporate. Each clinic retains its own leadership, working style, and day-to-day culture, shaped by the people on the team and the community it serves.
This site is all about CareVets Gisborne.
Why this site exists
Choosing where to work in veterinary medicine is rarely about a job title alone.
This site exists to show how CareVets Gisborne operates as a workplace — how the team works together, how we make decisions and what day-to-day working life looks like here.
It’s designed to help you make informed decisions about fit – or not.
Part of CareVets — and local by design
CareVets Gisborne is part of the CareVets group, founded by veterinarians Dr Keith Houston and Dr Alastair Kirkby, alongside Nick Cooper, who brings a strong background in pet-care services and retail.
The group provides shared clinical standards, support, and infrastructure. Individual clinics are not required to operate to a single mould.
What’s described on this site relates specifically to CareVets Gisborne — this team, this leadership, and this local setting.
Because in practice, that’s what people are joining.
Who CareVets Gisborne tends to suit
CareVets Gisborne tends to suit people who value:
- Working in a close, collaborative team
- Clear communication and shared responsibility
- Professional standards without rigid hierarchy
- A clinic that’s integrated into its local community
It won’t suit everyone. That distinction matters.
About the work
Veterinary professionals don’t need the work explained to them.
What differs from clinic to clinic is how that work is supported — how decisions are made under pressure, how responsibility is shared, and how people treat one another when things are demanding.
The stories across this site show how those aspects play out at CareVets Gisborne. Individual perspectives are shared on the Team page and through each team member’s conversation on the Veterinary Voices podcast.
Vacancies at CareVets Gisborne
When roles are available at CareVets Gisborne, they’re listed on the Vacancies page.
This site focuses on the clinic itself, rather than on individual job listings.
CareVets Gisborne as a place to work
This site exists to help you decide whether CareVets Gisborne is your kind of clinic, working with your kind of people.