An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) to join our friendly and supportive small animal practice in Salisbury.
Our practice is located in a fantastic setting on a popular retail park, with convenient amenities nearby including a 24-hour gym. Salisbury is a beautiful historic city surrounded by stunning countryside. The New Forest is right on our doorstep, Stonehenge sits just to the north, London is just over an hour away by train, and the south coast can be reached within 30 minutes.
You will be joining a welcoming and experienced team. Our practice is well-equipped with modern, state-of-the-art facilities, allowing you to fully utilise your nursing skills.
This role offers excellent opportunities to develop and use your clinical nursing abilities, including running nurse clinics, taking and processing blood samples, placing catheters, performing x-rays, monitoring anaesthesia, and more.
We are looking for someone with solid general nursing experience and excellent client care skills. The ideal candidate will be friendly, enthusiastic, down-to-earth, and have a genuine passion for animal welfare. As a first-opinion practice, no two days are the same – some can be very busy while others are quieter, which keeps the role varied and interesting.
While we have two permanent vets, we also occasionally work with locum vets, so we are looking for an RVN who is adaptable, flexible and confident working with different clinicians and working styles.
This is a full-time role working 40 hours per week. Our practice opening hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 7:00pm and Saturday 9:00am – 3:00pm.
In return, we can offer:
Competitive salary up to £30,000, depending on experience
No out-of-hours or overnight inpatient checks
Generous CPD allowance, including support for funded certificates
Contributory pension scheme
Paid professional memberships (RCVS, BVNA, VDS)
Exclusive company and high street discounts and rewards
If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare and excellent customer service, we would love to hear from you.
Location SP1 2LB
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/
