An exciting opportunity has arisen at our small animal practice in Darlington Vets for Pets for an enthusiastic Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly and welcoming team on a fixed term contract until May 2027.
About Us:
Darlington Vets4Pets is located on the outskirts of Darlington town centre, 1 mile from the train station and under 10 minutes from the A1 which makes is suitable for those commuting from further afield. Darlington is under half an hour from Middlesbrough and an hour from Whitby on the coast for the perfect day off adventure.
Practice owner Leigh has over 30 years’ experience in the Veterinary world as a Veterinary Nurse and she is supported by a team of 4 Vets, 6 additional RVN’s, 2 SVN’s, 6 Receptionists and 1 Practice Manager. Lead Vet Amy has a special interest in ultrasonography, many of our vets and nurses hold additional certificates, and we are willing to support any interests you may bring to our team.
Inside the practice itself, we have 4 consult rooms as well as high quality imaging modalities including dental x-ray. Our practice also benefits from natural lighting and due to the spacious nature of the practice there is also a large colleague area which has been recently refurbished and an outside balcony, which supports our colleague’s wellbeing at work.
About the role:
Our nurses do their own consults and straight forward discharges, along with some other procedures such as blood sampling, radiography, I/V placement, and post op checks.
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 ANAs and an SVN with turning around theatre, 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.
This is a Part Time role working 30 hours per week. You will join our 1 in 4 Saturday rota (mornings only 8am – 12pm), there is no OOH and we are closed on a Sunday and Bank Holidays.
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.
Location DL1 5NT
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/
