Pets at Home

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Pets at Home  •  £30k/yr  •  Onsite  •  6 hours ago
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Job Description

Join Our Growing Team as a Registered Veterinary Nurse

We are a friendly, forward thinking, small animal veterinary practice with a genuine passion for delivering outstanding care to every patient and an exceptional service to every client. Purpose built and equipped with modern technology, we’re excited to welcome a new nurse who shares our enthusiasm, compassion, and commitment to high-quality veterinary care.

Person Specification:

We’re looking for a full-time RVN (Part –time may be considered) to become a valued member of our supportive team. As a full time member of our team you will work 40 hours per week. This includes 1 in 4 Saturdays on our fair and balanced rota. You’ll be:

  • Passionate about veterinary nursing and delivering excellent patient care
  • Friendly, approachable, and down-to-earth
  • A team player who thrives in a dynamic environment
  • Committed to animal welfare and supporting clients with empathy
  • Excited about growing your skills— A Clinical Coach qualification or a willingness to training in this area would be ideal.

We actively encourage our RVNs to use their skills to the fullest. Providing a varied caseload including theatre, radiography, dental procedures, inpatient care, nurse-led clinics and general nursing duties.

Our Facilities:

As a 100% small animal practice, with a varied case load, including cardiac and abdominal ultrasound, we are proud of our excellent facilities and continuously invest in high-quality equipment to support great clinical care, including:

Multi-parameter General Anaesthetic monitor, High-spec GE Vivid iq ultrasound, ECG, K Laser, In-house Idexx laboratory, Digital X ray (including dental), Endoscope, Tonopen, Blood pressure monitors, Infusion pumps, syringe driver, Bair Hugger, Capnography, fully equipped operating theatre, dedicated dog, cat, and isolation wards. We will shortly be expanding our facilities to include an Intensive Care Unit.

Benefits include:

As you would expect from the market leader in small animal veterinary care, we offer:

  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience (Newly qualified RVN salary starting £30,000)
  • Career opportunities and development
  • CPD allowance and support
  • Paid RCVS and VDS memberships
  • Discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room
  • Pension
  • Generous holiday allowance: 5.6 × your average weekly hours increasing to 6.6 x after 2 years of service
  • Additional day off for your Birthday
  • Team-building days and social events

If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare and great customer service and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you.

To Apply:

For more information or to apply, please email your CV and cover letter to sioned.owen@vetsforpets.com

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We are an equal opportunities employer.

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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