Are you an experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse ready to take the next step in your career?
We’re looking for a Head Registered Veterinary Nurse (Head RVN) to join our friendly and supportive small animal practice in Tilehurst, Reading. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced RVN who is passionate about clinical standards, team development and delivering exceptional patient and client care.
Conveniently located within the Pets at Home store at Reading Retail Park, our practice benefits from excellent transport links, free onsite parking, modern facilities and state-of-the-art equipment, providing a well-equipped and enjoyable environment in which to work.
As Head RVN, you’ll play a key role in supporting the smooth running of the nursing team and helping to maintain high clinical and professional standards across the practice.
You’ll work closely with our Veterinary Surgeons and wider practice team, providing clinical leadership, mentoring and support to our RVNs, Student Veterinary Nurses and VCAs. You’ll have the opportunity to influence nursing protocols, support team development and help create a positive and collaborative working environment.
Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you’ll remain hands-on clinically and be encouraged to fully utilise your nursing skills across all aspects of small animal practice, including:
You’ll be joining an experienced and welcoming team consisting of:
Our dedicated VCAs and Student Veterinary Nurses provide excellent support with theatre preparation, patient care and consultations, allowing our RVNs to focus on delivering the highest standard of nursing care.
We’re looking for an experienced RVN who is ready to take on a leadership position and make a real difference within the practice.
You’ll ideally:
Previous Head RVN or nursing leadership experience would be advantageous, but we’re also happy to consider an experienced RVN who is ready to take the next step into leadership.
Hours
We understand the importance of work-life balance and are happy to consider full or part-time
applicants.
Ready to take the next step?
If you’re an experienced RVN looking for an opportunity to lead, develop and make a real difference within a friendly and supportive practice, we’d love to hear from you.
Location: RG30 1PR
We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!
Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
