Registered Veterinary Nurse

Vets for Pets; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a thriving veterinary practice in Nuneaton as a Registered Veterinary Nurse. If you're an enthusiastic individual with a dedication to high clinical standards, you'll thrive in our supportive environment. This full-time role offers a competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a chance to be part of a dynamic team focused on excellent pet care.

Benefits

5.6 weeks holiday

Life Assurance 4 x Annual Salary

Contributory Pension Scheme

Paid memberships (RCVS, BVA, VDS)

CPD encouraged

Flexible working hours

Cycle to work scheme

Exclusive company discounts at Pets at Home

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in veterinary nursing.
• Proactive and enthusiastic team player.
• Capable of providing excellent patient and client care.

Responsibilities

• Support the clinical role caring for patients.
• Perform a variety of nursing tasks including anaesthesia and consulting.
• Mentor student nurses alongside experienced RVNs.

Skills

Veterinary nursing

Patient care

Team collaboration

Anaesthesia

Client care

Job description

If you are an enthusiastic, experienced RVN looking to join a warm and friendly team then we would love to hear from you! Here at Nuneaton, we are a locally owned practice with the support of a larger organisation, our clients love us and we think you will too.

About us
We are proud to be a multiple award-winning GP standard practice under the Practice Standard Scheme as well as RCVS accredited, Silver accredited cat friendly status and RWAF accredited.

Growing all the time and seeing a variety of interesting surgical and medical cases you’ll be joining practice owners Melissa, who has 13+ years’ experience, is a qualified Vet GDP advisor with an interest in every aspect of veterinary medicine, in particular soft tissue surgery and preventative medicine, and Lucy (RVN) who has 22+ years’ experience with an interest in preventative care and anaesthesia.

Melissa and Lucy are also supported by Vicky our Practice Manager, she is one of our onsite Mental Health First Aiders, along with a great team of 2 ½ Vets, 3 Nurses, 1 VCA and 3 CCA’s

The practice itself is based in a thriving Pets at Home store, is a modern, purpose-built practice with all the equipment you’d expect as well as a Cryopen for Cryotherapy.
We are also ideally located with great amenities right on our doorstep, plentiful parking, excellent public transport links, as well as just a short journey from major roads networks.

About you
Nurses are the heart of our practice and perform an integral clinical role in caring for our patients. We are looking for a proactive, enthusiastic team player who is keen to work in a progressive, fast paced first opinion practice, with high clinical standards.

For this role you’ll be:

• Skilled in all aspects of veterinary nursing with at least 3 years experience.
• Passionate to deliver excellent patient and client care. We’re committed to helping you utilise your professional skills and pursue further qualifications that benefit both you and the practice.
• Keen to support the practice as a business and contribute to motivating the team to achieve personal and practice improvement.
• Ideally you will be a Clinical Coach-or excited to train as one. You’ll play a key role in supporting our student nurses alongside other experienced RVNs.

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

About the role
Ideally this is a full-time position working 40 hours a week, with shift patterns of 9am-5pm and 11am-7pm, including 1 in 3 Saturday’s 9am-5pm and no OOH

Please still get in touch if you’re looking for something a bit more flexible, as we’re open to discussing alternatives!

Admin time and tea breaks are also built into the diary, along with a protected lunch break.

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;

• Competitive salary starting from £28,000 DOE
• 5.6 weeks holiday
• Life Assurance 4 x Annual Salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Paid memberships (RCVS, BVA, VDS)
• CPD encouraged and happy to support certificates or equivalent
• Flexible working hours
• No OOH
• Relocation allowance can be discussed*
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to Colleague Assistance Programmes - Retail Trust, Port of Call and MHFA
• Exclusive company discounts and rewards - including 20% off at Pets at Home, The Groom Room and Vet Group

If you'd like any further information about this vacancy, the practice or our company please contact Abi from our Talent Acquisition team via email; [e-mail] for an informal and confidential conversation.

Location: CV11 4HR

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so 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!