An exciting opportunity has arisen at our small animal practice in Livingston Vets4Pets for an enthusiastic Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our supportive team!
About Us:
Our practice has been completely refurbished and is equipped with the latest technology. We have an impressive 9 consulting rooms, 3 operating theatres and various onsite laboratory testing. We have state of the art equipment including; Bear hugger, Incubator Muliti - parameter and blood pressure machines along with a variety of laboratory equipment. We are conveniently located within the Pets at Home store in the centre of Livingston’s retail park. We have a brilliant team of 10 Veterinary Surgeons, 11 Registered Veterinary Nurses including 1 Student Veterinary Nurse, 7 Client Care Advisors, and a Client Services Manager.
About the Role:
By joining us you will have the opportunity to use your nursing skills to their full potential, admitting patients, monitoring anaesthetics, recovering, and discharging patients. Assistance from SVN with turning around theatre and patient prep.
To apply you will have good general nursing experience and great customer service skills, be cheerful, down-to-earth and enthusiastic with a genuine interest in animal welfare. Whether you are an experienced nurse or newly qualified, we would love to hear from you.
We have Full Time opportunities available in the team, working 36 to 40 hours per week, including 1 in 4 weekends (Saturday 9am to 6pm, Sunday 10am to 4pm). We are flexible with the rota and happy to accommodate longer working days. Please note this is a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.
In return, we can offer you:
If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare and great customer service, then we would love to hear from you!
Benefits
In return, we offer such benefits as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension and holiday allowance.
We want our colleagues to be as diverse as our clients. Our teams are inclusive and celebrate difference so if you meet our role requirements, we’d love to hear from you.
If you would like to hear more about working with us, please contact northvet@vets4pets.com
Location: EH54 6QX
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/
