Are you an experienced RVN ready to take the next step in your career without stepping away from the nursing you love? We’re looking for a passionate, confident Head RVN to join our busy Irvine practice.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who genuinely loves veterinary nursing, enjoys working in a busy small animal environment and wants to make a difference to both patients and colleagues.
As Head RVN, you’ll work alongside the nursing team every day, leading by example while continuing to nurse clinically yourself.
You’ll help develop and inspire the team, encourage colleagues to achieve their potential and bring ideas for improving the practice. You’ll need to be an excellent multitasker, happy to step in and support colleagues when needed and confident having challenging conversations in a professional and constructive way.
We’re looking for someone who is kind, approachable and team-focused, but also confident enough to lead, challenge and drive positive change.
Most importantly, you’ll need to be genuinely passionate about nursing and the veterinary industry. We want someone who will become part of our team, rather than simply manage it.
We have three practices across Ayrshire, led by four partners — two vets, an RVN and a practice manager. Our 60-strong team is committed to excellent clinical care and an exceptional client experience.
We’re a close-knit, supportive team who genuinely have each other’s backs. We value open communication, respect, work-life balance and individual needs.
Across our practices, we have:
Our nurses have specialist interests including acupuncture, pain management, behaviour and Schedule 3 surgical procedures, and you’ll have support from our Head Nurses, Senior Nurses, Clinical Coaches and RVN Business Partner.
You’ll be:
You don’t need previous Head RVN experience, if you’re ready for the next step and have the right attitude, passion and leadership potential, we’d love to hear from you.
Ready to take the next step?
If you’re an experienced RVN who still loves nursing and is ready to lead, inspire and develop a fantastic team, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and let’s start a conversation.
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/
