Veterinary Care Assistant

Vets for Pets; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% discount at Vet Group/Pets at Home

Discounts and cashbacks

In-house career development

Pension

Holiday allowance

Job summary

Vets for Pets Sutton Coldfield is recruiting an experienced Veterinary Care Assistant for a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover. You will support veterinary surgeons and the nursing team, caring for animals and helping maintain a clean, safe clinical environment.

Role involves hospital care, administration tasks, and occasional reception duties. Prior veterinary experience is desirable; a busy, collaborative team environment awaits with flexible shifts (8am-5pm or 10am-7pm) and no weekends.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a veterinary practice or animal care setting is desirable.
• Able to work across clinical and client-facing areas.
• Comfortable working as part of a busy team.
• Committed to high standard of patient care.

Responsibilities

• Care for hospitalised patients and assist nursing team.
• Clean and prepare clinical areas; safely handle animals.
• Restock and maintain equipment; support wider practice team.
• Assist reception with client/pet enquiries, appointments, and payments.

Skills

Friendly face

Excellent communication

Calm under pressure

Flexibility / multitasking

Love of pets

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Veterinary Care Assistant to join our Sutton Coldfield Vets for Pets practice on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

This is a varied and rewarding role, supporting our veterinary surgeons and nursing team with the day-to-day care of our patients and the smooth running of the practice. You will help provide a high standard of care to animals throughout their time with us, as well as helping to maintain a clean, safe and welcoming clinical environment.

Your day-to-day duties will include caring for hospitalised patients, assisting the nursing team, cleaning and preparing clinical areas, safely handling animals, restocking and maintaining equipment, and providing practical support to the wider practice team. The role will also include supporting our reception team when required, including welcoming clients and their pets, answering telephone enquiries, booking appointments, taking payments, assisting with general reception administration and helping ensure clients receive a friendly and efficient service. This is a varied role working across both clinical and client-facing areas of the practice, so you'll need to be confident communicating with clients, comfortable working as part of a busy team and happy to turn your hand to whatever is needed to keep the practice running smoothly.

We are looking for someone who genuinely enjoys working with animals and takes pride in providing excellent care. You should be compassionate, dependable and able to remain calm and organised in a busy environment.

This is a Full Time role working 40 hours per week (8am to 5pm or 10am to 7pm). No Weekends!

Previous experience within a veterinary practice or animal care setting is desirable.

The attributes required

• You are the friendly and welcoming face for the client and their pets when they arrive at the practice.
• You are able to provide guidance by keeping yourself fully up-to-speed with the practice services and any additional services available.
• You are calm, attentive, and always focus on the clients’ needs.
• You will bring enthusiasm and drive to your role. Your passion for service is matched with your love of pets.
• You can deal with everything that is thrown at you, from comforting a client who has had some bad news about their pet or sharing in the joy of a new puppy’s first visit to the vet.
• Your personality is infectious and along with your fellow colleagues, you create a welcoming and friendly atmosphere in the practice.

In short, you like to be busy, enjoy helping people and their pets and always endeavour to make a difference.

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: B73 5AB

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!