We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate Veterinary Care Assistant to join our award-winning, family-owned Newton Abbot practice. You will assist all colleagues with clinical and non-clinical duties to support smooth running of the practice and provide the best standard of patient care. Previous experience as a Veterinary Care Assistant is advantageous
Duties will include cleaning theatre, instruments, kennels - the clinical areas of the practice, answering phone calls, holding patients for the clinical team, packaging lab samples. Working closely with our Registered Veterinary Nurses to provide excellent in patient care. Full training will be provided.
Our practice is bright, spacious, air-conditioned and purpose built to industry leading standards and has state of the art equipment including digital X-ray and in-house laboratory facilities.
This a great opportunity for someone who is looking to progress into a student nurse role in the future.
This is a Part Time role working 30 hours per week. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 11am-7pm. We are offering a wage between £10.85 and £13.50 per hour.
If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare, exceptional customer service and would like to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.
Please send applications to Nicola Carrick RVN Practice Manager nicola.carrick@vets4pets.com. Closing date for applications Friday 22nd May.
Benefits
In return, we offer such benefits as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension, and holiday allowance.
We want our colleagues to be as diverse as our clients. Our teams are inclusive and celebrate difference so if you meet our role requirements, we’d love to hear from you.
Location TQ12 3AN
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/
