About Us

She’s got a CertAVP which basically means she’s super smart and your pet is in the best possible hands. She juggles running this practice, stopping Carly spending large sums on sparkly vet wrap and 36km of paper towel, with a 2 small kids and an Ian to look after. On top of that she spends unusual amounts of time upside down doing aerial skills. She is basically wonder woman with a vet degree.

Izzy joined us in summer 2024 after graduating from Surrey Vet School. She has spent many of her summers prior to graduating with us, so we already knew she fits in like a dream. And she has!

She’s super personable, loves her patients and clinically excellent all around. Just as happy in theatre as she is a consult room or wielding an ultrasound probe, she is a true general practitioner, and so your pets are in exceedingly good hands with her.

She has a love of collie’s and has a menagerie that includes sheep, ducks and chickens at home.

It’s probably also worth mentioning, she’s also odd. In the way that she actually enjoys running. And not running away from tigers, or towards food, she actually likes to run for running’s sake. She’s done approximately 100,003 Park Runs. And if that wasn’t odd enough did the “Backyard Ultra” in 2025 and is planning on it again for 2026. This is some kind of torture where you keep running laps of Thetford forest every hour on the hour until, presumably, either sense or death finds you. Sense found Izzy after 8 hrs of continuous running this year, which was sad because I lost a £50 bet with Jenny, and thought she would do 10. But at least she is more sensible than I had anticipated! And we get to play “double or quits” next year.

If that isn’t strange enough, when she isn’t running, she’s playing dodgeball! Fortunately, she fuels all of these strenuous activities by being an exceedingly good baker which is an activity that gains much wider team participation than running at BSEVC, and one we very much support by eating everything she brings in.

Abi came to us as an experienced RVN as she had worked with Simon previously. So it’s always good when a friend recommends a workplace! And oh my gosh, are we glad to have her. She quickly proved that she is not only an exceptionally calm, diligent and talented RVN, but she is also a natural leader and one that so many of the nursing team look up to and she has flourished into becoming a dream Deputy Head Nurse. She has been with us since 2021 but I do not remember what life was like without her in the team. She has also completed her ECC (Emergency and Critical Care) certificate since she has been with us and is truly one of the best nurses I have ever worked with, as well as one of the absolute best people. She leads with kindness and heart, which is the same way she nurses her patients, and I cannot express how incredibly lucky we are to have her looking after our precious patients.

Outside of work she has Trigger her horse who is in his “senior era” and has just bought a house in Stowmarket and looks forward to renovating it and making it a glorious cottagey nest!

Helen joined us in the autumn on 2024, and brings with her bags full of experience, excellent organisational skills and just a generally awesome attitude. She’s worked with a lot of us at a previous practice and we were thrilled that she wanted to join us. Not only a truly first class RVN, she is also a qualified behaviourist and able to see complex behaviour needs in cats, dogs and rabbits! This super accomplished hero also has a certificate in exotic animals and so happy to see anything that walks, hops or crawls in the doors! When not in work she spends time with her partner and is also a keen and beautiful crafter, holding her own stalls around Essex and Suffolk during the festive period! She also has a particular penchant for cream teas, Collie’s and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers!

Kirsty is a self proclaimed “Crazy Cat Lady” and has been with us for a number of years at Bury before coming to be a front-of-house superstar at Needham. She joined the customer care team from a career in retail, and so knows a thing or two about providing excellent customer service.

She is one of the most friendly, thorough and detail focussed people I have ever had the pleasure of working with, and she never seems to have a bad day! In her spare time she fosters kittens for the RSPCA and has been known to rehab even the most swipey bitey feral kittens into sweet, adorable pet cats. Patient, kind, caring, she will welcome you with open arms and will certainly go goo-goo if you have a kitten in your basket!�

She’s a complete fruit loop but a brilliant all-round vet. She has some super skills in imaging, emergency work and endocrinology and can sniff out an Addison’s dog 2 towns away. Dentistry is her true passion and she gained her certificate in advanced dentistry in 2023. She sees herself as an inner hippy with a talent for rap that’s she’s yet to unravel. Carly has a soft spot for the golden oldies and has 2 geriatric dogs as well as three horses that vary from sane to psychotic in their attitudes to life.

Kiera is an RVN who joined the team at Needham once we opened and we are so delighted! She was with us at Bury a student and we loved watching her grow and develop. She went to a practice closer to home after she qualified as the commute was too far, and we missed her dearly for 3 years, however when Needham opened, the stars aligned and she has returned!

Not only is Kiera super kind and compassionate, she is an exceedingly smart cookie having just completed her BSc Hons top up, and is now starting her Masters in veterinary nursing. She loves all of her patients first and foremost, however also appreciates the small things in life – often found looking down a microscope with her passion for microscopy and laboratory work!

When not in work she fills her time with a true love of the outdoors! She hikes, skis and is learning to fly! She also has exceptionally good music taste and can quite often be found working whilst grooving to a very eclectic collection of tunes and I suspect would be pretty unbeatable at “guess the intro”!

Karen joined us in 2024 in the client care team and is looking forward to welcoming all the pets of Needham Market. She has bundles of experience, having worked in the veterinary field for a number of years and is great at both the front of house and the admin roles. Her secret dream is to live in an off-grid commune rescuing animals! But until that dream is a reality, we are thrilled to have such talented hands on the team!