Join our thriving Burscough Vets for Pets practice, offering a competitive salary and a supportive team environment just 40 minutes from Liverpool and Preston! Meet our team by clicking here!
Opened in 2016 on the border of Ormskirk, we are a close-knit team of four Vets, a Practice Manager, RVNs, SVNs, VCAs and admin team, and we are proud of our low staff turnover. Our large nurse ratio means we utilise our nurses to their full potential; they run a range of chargeable clinics and perform a variety of schedule 3 procedures.
We are working to create a great work/life balance for our team and constantly strive to create a better environment in practice, and encourage everyone to be honest when we don’t get it right. We don’t want anyone taking problems home with them and are open to ideas on how we can improve both in a non-clinical and clinical setting.
Located within half an hour of Liverpool and Preston, our practice offers a convenient location for those wanting to enjoy the amenities of these vibrant cities while working in a supportive and community-focused environment.
About you:
As we are a small team, we are looking for someone who wants to work at building relationships within our team (we understand not everyone wants to be best mates with their colleagues, but being comfortable in your work environment and with the people you will be seeing on a daily basis is important to us).
Our nurses do some schedule 3 procedures but we would love for them to do more. Currently we run a range of chargeable nurse clinics so our clients understand the value in our nursing team. You will be comfortable running these nurse clinics in addition to monitoring anaesthetics, taking x-rays, in-patient care and some schedule 3 procedures.
You will have a positive attitude to work and a methodical approach to the running of your day - you will be able to manage your time and priorities to ensure you get the work done. We don’t want someone who will work themselves into the ground, because if you crack, no one is a winner. Instead we want someone who loves being a nurse and understands with that job role comes a lot of work, but also realises that there is more to life than a job.
You will want to develop trusting relationships with our clients to help guide them in understanding the right decisions to make when treating and caring for their pet. We want someone to maintain the bonds that we have already developed with our clients, whether that’s discussing their dog’s vaccination or their child’s performance at school! We believe that bond is crucial.
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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/
