Head Veterinary Nurse (Full-Time) | Greencross Vets Baldivis | Perth, WA
Ready to take the next step in your nursing career while still staying hands-on with the work you love?
Greencross Baldivis is looking for an experienced and passionate Head Veterinary Nurse to join our team in a full-time position. This role offers a wonderful opportunity to take on leadership responsibilities while continuing to be actively involved in patient care, surgery, hospital management, and supporting a highly capable nursing team.
If you've been craving a clinic where you don't have to harden up to keep up, and you don't have to compromise your standards to get through the day, this is that place.
Greencross Baldivis is a close, caring team with a busy but structured rhythm. We show up gently with each other, and we practise with intent. Cases are talked through. Decisions are shared. Support is right there when you need it. You'll feel supported by the team and proud of the medicine.
You can get a feel for the clinic through our team video, where our Practice Manager shares more about the culture, the way the team works together, and what makes Baldivis such a special place to be.
Why People Stay
Baldivis runs on trust, respect, and teamwork.
This is a clinic where everyone's contribution matters and where leaders work alongside their teams.
About the Role
As Head Veterinary Nurse, you'll play an important leadership role while remaining actively involved in clinical nursing.
This is an opportunity for an experienced nurse who enjoys mentoring others, fostering a positive team culture, and helping drive high clinical standards, while still being hands-on in a busy and rewarding veterinary environment.
Your responsibilities will include:
This role offers the opportunity to influence team culture, clinical standards, and the continued growth of both the nursing team and the clinic.
The Work You'll Do, and How We Do It
Our caseload is varied and often complex, ranging from preventative healthcare through to emergency presentations, medical workups, surgery, and ongoing case management.
We value continuity of care, allowing our nurses to truly follow patient journeys and contribute meaningfully to outcomes.
Gold-standard care isn't something we aspire to when time allows. It's simply how we practise. We believe in thorough diagnostics, thoughtful decision-making, and doing things properly, even on busy days.
Tools That Match Your Standards
You'll be supported by excellent facilities and equipment, including:
Within the team you'll find extensive experience and interests across emergency medicine, internal medicine, soft tissue surgery, advanced diagnostics, and anaesthesia, ensuring there's always someone to collaborate with and learn from.
The WA Greencross Network
One of the benefits of joining Greencross in Western Australia is the strong sense of connection across our clinics. Teams collaborate regularly, share knowledge, and support one another whenever needed.
You'll be part of a wider network of experienced veterinarians and nurses who are passionate about learning, mentoring, and helping each other succeed.
Competitive Pay Tailored to Your Experience
We recognise the value that experienced and highly qualified nurses bring to the team.
We offer competitive hourly rates, with higher pay available for nurses who hold advanced registration with the Veterinary Practice Board and can demonstrate strong clinical skills, leadership capability, and experience.
We're happy to have open conversations to ensure your remuneration reflects your qualifications, experience, and the contribution you'll make to our team.
About You
We're looking for someone who:
Most importantly, you're someone who wants to help build a positive workplace while maintaining high clinical standards and supporting your team to be their best.
Why Baldivis?
Baldivis offers all the benefits of south-of-Perth living without the stress of the inner city.
You'll enjoy:
It's the perfect place to build a rewarding veterinary career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Why Greencross?
As part of one of Australia's leading veterinary networks, you'll have access to a wide range of benefits and professional development opportunities, including:
Apply Today
If you're ready to step into a leadership role within a supportive, high-performing clinic where your skills, ideas, and experience will truly be valued, we'd love to hear from you.
Join Greencross Baldivis and help shape the future of a team that believes great patient care starts with great people. 🐾
Established in 1994, Greencross Vets is the largest veterinary services provider in Australia where we operate over 150+ clinics including General Practices and Animal Emergency Clinics.
As Australia's leading veterinary group, we provide pet owners access to a network of well-equipped veterinary practices run by local veterinary teams, which offer exceptional client and patient care.
We feature some of the most advanced practices in the veterinary industry and choose the best diagnostic tools, treatments and preventative measures based on clinical excellence.
Greencross are part of a community of vets who enjoy sharing their knowledge and clinical expertise. Complex cases can be discussed with our centres of excellence, where we have the most advanced equipment and nationally recognised teams of specialist vets. Finally, there’s our Vet Advisory Board (VAB) that leads our clinical practice and maintains our high standards consistently across the group.
Our operations include:
• General Practices
• Emergency Centres
• Specialist Centres
General practices, consisting of veterinary practices that offer consultations and associated diagnostics capabilities and general practice medical and surgical treatment options. Emergency centres, providing full animal hospital facilities for after-hours care and treatment of sick pets, and Specialist centres providing veterinary care across a number of specialist services including medicine, surgery, pathology, radiology, dermatology, cardiology, ophthalmology and dentistry.
For more information about Greencross Vets and our culture please visit www.greencrossvet.com.au or www.greencrossvet.com.au/careers to learn more about joining Greencross Vets.
