Animal Care Assistant - Weekend

Vets Now; Stirling; Sur place; GBP 26 000 - 28 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual leave

Birthday off

Health plan

Staff discounts

CPD allowance

CPD hours

Family-friendly policies

Pension

Pet care discount

Volunteer days

Death in service

Résumé du poste

Vets Now in Stirling is seeking a Weekend Animal Care Assistant to support our emergency clinic team. You will help keep in-patient areas calm, assist vets and nurses, and ensure basic husbandry needs are met for admitted animals.

This role offers weekend-evening shifts (Saturday 14:00–22:00, Sunday 16:00–00:00) with benefits including annual leave, birthday day off, health plan, staff discounts, CPD support, and pension.

Qualifications

• Experience in animal care or veterinary setting preferred.
• Willingness to work weekends and evenings.
• Excellent team player with empathy toward animals.

Responsabilités

• Support clinical teams under Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons.
• Handle patients for basic procedures and assist with running diagnostic tests.
• Assist in setting up and clearing down theatres for surgical procedures.
• Ensure all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.

Description du poste

Weekend Animal Care Assistant

£13.45ph plus benefits

About Vets Now

Vets Now is the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care, serving over 1700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out-of-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. Join our clinic team in Stirling and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide.

Role and Responsibilities

As an Animal Care Assistant at Vets Now, you will play a crucial role in assisting our clinical teams with providing a comfortable and stress-free in-patient environment whilst negotiating busy shifts in an emergency clinic. Your responsibilities will include:

• Working under the guidance of Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons.
• Handling patients for basic procedures and assisting with running diagnostic tests.
• Assisting in setting up and clearing down theatres for surgical procedures.
• Ensuring all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.

Working pattern

Every other weekend working Saturday from 14:00 to 22:00 and Sunday from 16:00 to 00:00

Plus, a fair share of bank holidays.

Why Join Us?

• 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
• Your birthday as a paid day off
• Cash Health Plan provided by Simply Health
• Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
• £780 CPD allowance pro-rata
• 10 hours paid CPD hours annually pro-rata
• Family-friendly policies including sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes
• UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
• Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
• Paid volunteering days
• Death in service of two times annual salary

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.