Pets at Home

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Pets at Home  •  Onsite  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

Are you looking for a thrilling, fast-paced practice where you can make a difference? Here at Loughborough Vets for Pets we have a new opportunity for an RVN to join our friendly and dynamic team, where we can offer a diverse and exciting work environment that will both challenge and inspire you.

Here at Loughborough, we understand that as an RVN you're passionate about providing the best possible care for your patients. If you're looking for a practice that matches your enthusiasm and high standards, and allows you to make a real difference in the lives of your patients, we're here to help you take the next step in your career.

Our stand-alone, locally owned Practice is situated on the outskirts of the university town of Loughborough in a busy residential area with on-site parking; great motorway and train links to Nottingham, Leicester, the Peak District, Birmingham & London, and being centrally located to the rest of the UK.

We can offer a friendly, inclusive work environment. You will be joining a bubbly, hard-working team who are dedicated to providing outstanding pet healthcare and fantastic, caring customer service.

Nurses are the heart of our practice and perform an integral clinical role in caring for our patients. You’ll have great communication and organisation skills and take pride in working to a high standard. The key to your success will be your ability to embrace all aspects of the Veterinary Nurse role, delivering excellent patient and client care. Continuously developing your knowledge and skills will be important to you; we support all individuals’ areas of interest, as a way to ensure up to date best practice and high clinical standards are followed across the whole Practice team.

About the role

This role is ideally full time, we understand the importance of a good work life balance and so we are open for discussions on how these hours can be worked!

We encourage our nurses to utilise all their nursing skills on a daily basis by taking part in a variety of tasks that includes, but is not limited to, schedule 3, anaesthesia, consulting and in-patient care. We have a rota for nursing roles within practice to ensure variety and fairness.

Benefits

By joining us you will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to providing superb standards.  We offer a supportive and friendly working environment together with career development opportunities and an excellent package and benefits that includes;

  • £28,000 - £35,000 pro rata dependent on experience.
  • 1 in 4 weekend rota (Saturdays 9-12). No out of hours.
  • Enhanced annual leave of 6.6 weeks including bank holidays
  • Contributory pension scheme and life assurance 4 x annual salary
  • Opportunities to develop your practice and nursing skills, and pay increases based on performance and contributions to the Practice
  • Opportunities to develop our nurse clinic offer to our clients
  • Dedicated PD allowance and up to 3 days of paid CPD.
  • Paid memberships (RCVS, BVA, VDS, BSAVA)
  • Exclusive company discounts and rewards – including 20% off at Pets at Home, The Groom Room and Vet Group
  • Regular and funded social activities for team development (and fun!)

If you'd like further information about this vacancy, the practice or our company please contact Emma from our Talent Acquisition team via email; NorthVet@vets4pets.com for an informal and confidential conversation.

Alternatively, you can submit your application directly to us at loughborough@vets4pets.com and we will be in touch with you to discuss further. We look forward to hearing from you!

Location: LE11 2HN

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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