Are you a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) looking for an exciting new challenge in a dynamic, supportive practice? Join us at Sydenham Vets for Pets, where you’ll have the opportunity to grow your clinical skills, explore your professional interests, and make a real difference to the pets and clients you care for!
About us
Our vision is to provide unparalleled quality vet care for pets and their families, whilst providing compassion and understanding and being open to invest in our facilities and team. We’re client-focused, progressive, and professional individuals who place strong emphasis on professional development and provide a supportive and committed environment to enable continued education to every one of our colleagues.
We have a wide range of equipment, digital radiography, a large in-house laboratory, and the latest model of ultrasound. We’ve also expanded our surgical suite to offer orthopaedic surgery! The team works closely together, and we strive to improve every day, you’ll be joining a forward-thinking culture that welcomes further studies and interests. Each colleague brings their own set of skills to the team.
The practice itself is in a great location within the Pets at Home store and offers plenty of parking and shopping facilities.
About you and the role
This is a full-time role working 40 hours a week with every other Saturday included. We’re closed on Sundays and have no OOH involved giving you an excellent work life balance! However, we can be flexible so if you’re looking for part time hours then please get in touch!
About you
Nurses are the heart of our practice, playing a vital role in the clinical care of our patients. We are seeking a proactive, enthusiastic team player eager to work in a progressive, fast-paced first opinion practice with high clinical standards and a strong interest in anaesthesia.
Your success will come from embracing all aspects of the veterinary nurse role and consistently delivering exceptional care to both patients and clients.
At Sydenham Vets4Pets, we’re passionate about helping our colleagues be their best and achieve their career goals. Whether you’re a newly qualified RVN looking for a practice to kickstart your career, or an experienced RVN seeking new opportunities to grow, we’d love to hear from you and explore how we can support your professional journey!
Benefits
By joining us you will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to providing superb standards. We offer a supportive and friendly working environment together with career development opportunities and an excellent package and benefits that includes;
Location SE26 4PU
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/
