Registered Veterinary Nurse
If you are an experienced RVN looking for a team that will support you, encourage you and have fun with, Filton Vets for Pets could be the right practice for you.
The Practice:
Filton Vets for Pets has been locally owned by Michael Parry since 2003. To the benefit of our team and patients alike, the practice underwent a makeover and expansion in recent years, enhancing our wonderful working environment and now offering an excellent workspace and facilities including a lovely colleague room and separate offices, purpose built operating theatres and dental theatre, additional prep rooms and wards. The practice is also fitted with the excellent level of equipment you’d expect from a thriving GP practice, ensuring you have everything you need to provide the best standards of care to our patients.
Our team:
For a small animal practice, you’ll be joining a big team! As well as Michael, you’ll be working alongside a team of 7 other vets and supported by a welcoming team of 25 in total, including our Head Nurse and nurse team, students, care assistants and non-clinical colleagues including our practice manager Karen who is also a trained Mental Health First Aider.
About you:
You’ll be skilled in all aspects of veterinary nursing, with a passion for delivering excellent patient and client care. We are committed to helping you utilise your professional skills and pursue further qualifications that benefit both you and the practice. Personal progression is important to us and so we try to ensure our colleagues get to spend more time in the areas that interest them wherever possible. CPD is actively encouraged, with certificates and further education supported, encouraged and funded.
The role is ideally part time, and will include some Saturdays.
Our offer:
If that’s not enough, Filton Vets for Pets is based in an ideal location on the outskirts of Bristol yet is central for great transport links, a short walk from the local train station and with easy access to major roads including the M32, M4 and M5.
Location BS34 7BQ
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/
