Registered Veterinary Nurse - Hammersmith

Blue Cross For Pets; London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross For Pets is seeking a Registered Veterinary Nurse for its Hammersmith animal hospital. The role involves providing exceptional care to small animals and ensuring their health and welfare. This permanent, full-time position also offers generous benefits including holiday allowance, wellbeing support, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

38 days holiday rising to 43 with service

Mental wellbeing support programs

Free 24/7 GP services

Pension scheme with enhanced employer contributions

Professional fees paid for CPD

Life assurance

20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance

Annual volunteer days

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Veterinary Nurse, registered with RCVS.
• Confident in emergency and routine veterinary care.
• Demonstrable customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent veterinary care for small animals.
• Provide routine healthcare and manage emergencies.
• Work alongside Veterinary Surgeons to promote animal welfare.

Skills

Veterinary nursing skills

Customer service skills

Teamwork

Education

Fully qualified Veterinary Nurse

Registered with RCVS

Job description

Registered Veterinary Nurse - Hammersmith

Application Deadline: 29 June 2025

Department: Veterinary Services

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Hammersmith animal hospital

Reporting To: Nurse Manager

Compensation: £27,500 - £30,000 / year

Description

Contract: Permanent, full time (42 hours Monday-Friday)

Salary: £27,500 - £30,000 plus £3,954 London weighting allowance pro rata

Location: Hammersmith animal hospital

Closing date: Sunday 29th June 2025

Interview dates: 3rd and 4th July 2025

We’re recruiting a registered Veterinary Nurse to join our team of dedicated, talented, and outstanding veterinary professionals at our Hammersmith animal hospital. You’ll be helping to deliver excellent veterinary care for a wide range of small animals, providing both routine healthcare and managing a large number of emergencies, giving our team fantastic opportunities to develop their skills.

More about the role

Blue Cross animal hospitals and pet care clinics provide veterinary treatment to sick and injured pets when their owners can’t afford private veterinary fees. Our vet care is available to pets whose owners receive certain means-tested benefits and live within the catchment area of one of our animal hospitals or pet care clinics.

We have developed an award-winning set of clinical guidelines to assist our vets in pragmatic, evidence-based decision making, where patient welfare is a priority. High standards are important to us, but so is the ability to discuss openly where lessons have been learnt, within a safe, non-judgmental environment.

We recognise that we work within a profession where compassion fatigue is a risk to us all. We have wellbeing champions and Mental Health First Aiders at all hospitals, coordinating a range of initiatives and promoting a culture of openness and support within the team.

Working hours: This is a full time position offered on a permanent basis. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:30 – 5pm. Wednesday 9-5. Hour lunchbreak. Weekend shifts will be required on a rota basis, at our other site based in Victoria, London. This roughly equates to 7-8 full weekends per year.

About you

As a Veterinary Nurse, you will be confident and capable in delivering excellent nursing care for a range of small animals, providing both emergency and routine healthcare. Our Veterinary Nurses work alongside Veterinary Surgeons to promote animal health and welfare through responsible ownership and play a key role in the education of pet owners.

The ability to work as part of a team and effective communication skills are really important, often you will be the first point of our clients, forming strong bonds with them to ensure improved animal health and welfare.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

• Fully qualified Veterinary Nurse
• Registered with RCVS
• Confident in all aspects of veterinary nursing
• Demonstrable customer service skills
• The ability to demonstrate, understand and apply our Blue Cross values.

Although not essential, it would be great if you also had:

• Provision of nursing clinics
• Laboratory skills
• Use of computerised records

How to apply

Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date on Sunday 29th June 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Blue Cross benefits

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.

In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.

Our generous benefits package includes:

• Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
• Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
• Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
• Free physiotherapy advice and face to face intervention
• Health cash plan
• Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
• Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
• Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
• Life assurance
• 20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Recognition scheme
• Annual volunteer days
• Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.