Vets for Pets Colchester Referral Hospital is seeking an experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) to join our established clinical team. This role offers excellent professional development opportunities within a progressive, multi-disciplinary referral hospital environment, supporting advanced patient care and complex case management.
About Us
Our purpose-built Referral Hospital in Colchester is equipped with advanced diagnostic, medical, and surgical facilities and provides 24-hour hospitalisation and continuous inpatient care. We work closely with our associated first-opinion practice to ensure seamless continuity of care.
Across our Colchester sites, our wider team includes:
Vets for Pets Colchester has experienced consistent growth over the past 20 years, with continued investment in facilities, services, and team development.
The Role
As an RVN, you will be central to delivering gold-standard nursing care for complex medical and surgical referral cases within a collaborative, specialist-led environment.
Key Responsibilities:
This role offers significant exposure to referral-level medicine and surgery, with strong support for developing advanced nursing competencies.
About You
Essential Requirements:
Professional Attributes:
Working Pattern
Salary & Benefits
Salary From £30,000 per annum (FTE), dependent on experience
Benefits include:
Why Join Our Referral Hospital?
How to Apply
Qualified RVNs interested in developing their referral nursing career are encouraged to apply or arrange a confidential discussion.
Email: recruitcolchester@vets4pets.com
Application: Online submission available
All enquiries and applications are treated confidentially and without obligation.
Location CO3 8PB
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/
