Job Description

We’re looking for a new team member and would love to welcome an enthusiastic and motivated RVN or SVN to join us.

Our close-knit and supportive team is excited to find the right person to become part of our fun and balanced working environment. At Leicester Central Vets for Pets, we want our nurses to feel truly valued and empowered to nurse — making full use of their skills, from phlebotomy and lab analysis to Schedule 3 procedures.

Have an interest in exotics? You’ll be supported by our dedicated exotics vet, alongside our experienced general practitioner, giving you the opportunity to broaden your clinical exposure and develop your interests.

The Position:

• Competitive salary of up to £30,000 per annum
• 40 hours per week, between 8:30am–7:00pm (with consideration for a 4-day week)
• Evenly shared early and late shifts: 8:30am–4:30pm or 11:00am–7:00pm
• Currently no weekends, with the potential for 1 in 4 in the future as we expand our vet team
• No OOH
• RCVS fees paid, with the opportunity to become a BVNA member
• Duties shared equally, offering a great mix of theatre, prep, recovery, inpatient care and nurse consults
• 28 days’ annual leave including bank holidays (shared), within a flexible and supportive team
• Generous CPD budget, including funding and CPD days to support further development and additional qualifications
• Access to a range of high street and colleague discount schemes
• Generous company pension scheme

Our missing link:
Confident RVN or SVN with a passion for small animals and exotics! Potential to be a clinical coach to educate and encourage new students.

• A proactive nurse and do what we are trained to do and have support from our vets.
• Can keep the standard of the profession through the highs and the lows.
• Happy to get stuck in and thrives on those busy days.
• Enjoys meeting clients (even the challenging ones!), building relationships with them and getting to know them and their pets.
• You are kind, honest and trustworthy and willing to be an integral part of our work family.

About Us:

• The practice is company owned with clinical and non-clinical support from the group. Allowing focus to be on colleague work life balance and not profit
• We are a VN Training practice, ISFM silver status, going for dog friendly practice status next.
• Strive to serve our clients through the good and the bad offering a supportive approachable practice.
• The team have fun while we work and even strive to have lunches together for a catch up and organise out of work activities together.
• Set in the heart of Leicester with an abundance of shops, cultural diversity, and places to eat! (Takeaways ordered a lot!)

For an informal confidential chat, please contact Ryan on covet@vets4pets.com

Location LE1 1SG

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!