Pets at Home

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Pets at Home  •  £30k/yr  •  Swansea, GB (Onsite)  •  26 days ago
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Job Description

Be Part of Something New – Join Our Brand-New Team!

Are you a Registered Veterinary Nurse ready for your next big career move?

We’re opening a new Vets for Pets practice in Baglan, Port Talbot this September, and you could be there from day one.

This is your chance to help build the practice, shape how it runs, and create a friendly, supportive team culture from scratch. Don’t just join a job—join a journey!

About the Practice
Our purpose-built, modern practice has been thoughtfully designed with both patients and colleagues in mind, featuring:

  • 4 consult rooms, including a shared X-ray room
  • Separate dog and cat waiting areas
  • Dedicated prep area and operating theatre
  • Dentistry suite
  • In-house lab, with digital X-ray and ultrasound planned
  • 8 cat kennels, 8 dog kennels, plus 2 walk-in kennels
  • Separate isolation ward
  • Spacious colleague area with shower facilities
  • Free parking and secure bike storage

We’ll also have the capacity to welcome visiting specialists, enabling us to keep more advanced care in-house.

About You
We’re looking for a Registered Veterinary Nurse who:

  • Compassionate and committed to delivering high standards of patient and client care
  • Proactive with a positive, can-do attitude
  • Strong team player who works well within a collaborative environment
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Confident working in a fast-paced, busy practice
  • Well organised with good time management skills
  • Willing to support both clinical and non-clinical duties

The Role

  • Full-time (40 hours), with flexible and part-time hours also considered
  • Monday–Friday: 9am–6pm
  • 1 in 3 Saturdays: 9am–1pm
  • No out-of-hours work

Location & Lifestyle
Situated in Baglan, Port Talbot, our practice offers the perfect balance of convenience and lifestyle:

  • Just 5 minutes from the M4 (J41/42)
  • 7-minute walk to Baglan train station
  • Bus stop directly outside the practice
  • Surrounded by local amenities, including cafés, shops, and restaurants
  • 2 miles from Aberavon Beach
  • 20 minutes from Swansea
  • Close to Margam Country Park, Afan Forest Park, and Kenfig Nature Reserve
  • Within easy reach of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park

Perfect for enjoying the outdoors, weekend adventures, or a stroll along the coast!

Whether you enjoy hiking, cycling, water sports, or simply relaxing with a great coffee by the sea, this location truly has it all.

About the Practice Owner
Our Practice Owner, Rebecca, graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2014 and brings extensive experience from both private practice and a busy PDSA hospital. Rebecca also holds a Certificate in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care, ensuring expert care for every patient.

Beyond veterinary work, Rebecca serves as an on-call firefighter, bringing exceptional teamwork, resilience, and community spirit to the practice.

What We Offer

  • Salary up to £30,000 DOE
  • No out-of-hours work
  • Generous CPD budget to support your professional development
  • Opportunity to shape and influence a brand-new practice
  • Supportive, collaborative team culture
  • Excellent work–life balance

Benefits:
We offer a range of perks, including:

  • 20% discount at Vets for Pets, Pets at Home, and the Groom Room
  • Access to exclusive discounts and cashback offers
  • In-house career development and training opportunities
  • Pension scheme
  • Generous holiday allowance

For more information about this vacancy, the practice, or our company, please contact Ryan from our Talent Acquisition team at covet@vets4pets.com for an informal and confidential chat.

Alternatively, you can submit your application directly, and a member of our team will be in touch to discuss the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Location SA12 8EB

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!

Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

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/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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