Whether you're properly job hunting, just having a nosy while the kettle boils, or quietly wondering if your current workplace would collapse without you and whether that's actually a good enough reason to stay, there are a fair few roles going across Wells, Shepton Mallet, Evercreech, Street and Glastonbury this week.

There's office work, legal graft, lorry driving, farm life, retail hours and a veterinary role with a salary range wide enough to reverse a milk tanker through. As ever, read the small print, check the commute, and remember that "hybrid working" can mean anything from "lovely flexibility" to "you may look at your laptop on the sofa after tea".

For the desk-based and document-bothered

Wells has a permanent role for a Personal Tax Accountant, recruited through Change Recruitment Services, with an established firm of chartered accountants. The salary is listed as "highly competitive", which is recruiter-speak for "we'll tell you once you've shown interest", but the package includes generous holiday, pension, private medical insurance, home working options and a cycle-to-work scheme. They're after someone with personal tax experience, ideally ATT or CTA qualified, though experience seems to be doing the heavy lifting here. Expect tax returns, capital gains computations and advising clients who may or may not have kept their paperwork in a shoebox since 2019.

Also in Wells, there's a permanent Residential Conveyancer role with a long-established Somerset law firm, paying up to £60,000+ depending on experience. Hybrid and flexible working are on the table, along with holiday, pension, paid training, practising certificates and the small mercy of a Christmas office closure that doesn't nibble your annual leave. They'll consider a solicitor, legal executive, licensed conveyancer or experienced fee earner, which is handy if you can steer a house sale from "offer accepted" to "keys finally handed over" without developing a permanent eye twitch.

In Shepton Mallet, a Senior Administrator is wanted for a full-time, permanent office-based role paying £30,000 a year. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm, which at least keeps your weekends free for B&Q, football, or silently resenting the A371. The employer is a reinstatement company working with utility firms across the South and South West, and the job involves entering jobs into systems, closing live jobs, checking dashboards, opening road notices and fielding calls. Strong IT skills and being organised are needed, so this is one for the person who actually knows where the shared drive documents live.

For those who prefer wheels, yards and actual movement

Shepton Mallet has a permanent Class 1 Trunk Driver role with Gregory Distribution Ltd, paying £45,000 a year. It's a Monday to Friday nights role, so ideal if you like the roads quieter and your body clock slightly feral. Gregory is looking for a Class 1 driver for transport and logistics work, and while the listing keeps the full details tucked behind the usual "click apply" curtain, the headline facts are solid enough: nights, Shepton, permanent, £45k.

There's also a permanent Class 1 Ex Farm Milk Tanker Driver role based in Evercreech, also listed at £45,000 a year. The shift pattern is five on, three off, covering days from 6am to 4.30pm and nights from 5pm to 3.30am. You'll need a UK Class 1 CE licence, and the job involves collecting fresh milk from local farms and getting it to the dairy. Not one for anyone precious about early starts, narrow lanes or cows looking at you like they know something.

Over in Glastonbury, Sydenhams is after a full-time permanent HGV Class 1 Driver, with hours listed at 45 per week. Sydenhams is a family-run timber and builders' merchant celebrating its 150th anniversary, which means it has outlasted most governments, several recessions and probably half the sheds in Somerset. Salary isn't listed, but if you've got the licence and don't mind the builders' merchant world of timber, trade counters and reversing where someone has absolutely parked in the way, this could be worth a look.

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For shop floors, production sites and places where things actually happen

In Evercreech, the Co-op is hiring a permanent part-time Customer Team Member at its Victoria Square store, paying £13.04 an hour. It's a 12-hour contract with regular overtime, working closing shifts from 2pm to 8pm on Saturdays and Sundays, with more availability discussed at interview. Full paid training is included and there's no CV needed, which will be welcome news to anyone whose last CV update still says they are "proficient in Microsoft Word 2007". Applicants must be 18 or over due to shift requirements.

Shepton Mallet also has a permanent Assistant Production Manager role with Holcim, the building materials firm. The salary isn't listed, which is always mildly annoying, but the role sits in manufacturing operations and comes from a company involved in supplying building materials for everything from homes and hospitals to roads and railways. Good for someone who likes operations, production, and the sort of workplace where "getting things moving" means more than replying-all to an email thread.

For animals, farming and people who don't mind mud

Street has a permanent full-time Veterinary Surgeon role with Vets for Pets, with salary listed from £35,500 to £90,000 depending on experience. The advert says full-time and part-time patterns can be tailored, with CPD allowance, paid memberships, healthcare, pension, career progression, certificate funding and possible relocation support or visa sponsorship. It's general practice work, so expect pets, owners, consult rooms and the emotional diplomacy of explaining that yes, the Labrador has eaten something ridiculous again.

Near Glastonbury, there's a permanent Head Herdsperson role on a 450-acre family farming operation with a 275-cow Holstein herd. The listing mentions a competitive package and a large three-bedroom detached house on the farm, which is not something you see thrown in with many jobs unless livestock are involved. The successful applicant will manage milkings, paperwork, herd welfare, vet visits, foot trimming arrangements, software records and some night checks and calvings. In other words, you'll need experience, stamina and the ability to treat cows with more patience than most of us can manage in Wells Tesco car park.

That's the local spread for now: legal files in Wells, milk runs from Evercreech, admin in Shepton, pets in Street and cows near Glastonbury. For more roles, keep an eye on your local Nub News jobs board — because the perfect job might be waiting there, or at least one with a shorter commute and fewer "urgent Teams calls".