Veterinary Nurse – Weekends

Vets Now; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Join Vets Now as a Veterinary Nurse on weekends, providing essential emergency care for pets. This role allows you to enhance your ECC knowledge while balancing family commitments, with flexible shifts. You’ll be at the forefront of clinical treatment, offering life-saving care to pets in need, along with extensive benefits and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Enhanced sick and maternity pay

7 weeks pro rata annual leave

Paid birthday off

£1125 CPD allowance plus 20 paid hours pro rata

RCVS fees paid

Up to 50% discounted staff pet care

Death in service of two times annual salary

Qualifications

• RCVS registered for a minimum of six months.
• Experience with an ECC caseload is advantageous.
• Motivated to maintain high clinic standards.

Responsibilities

• Management and monitoring of major body systems.
• Performing essential diagnostic procedures.
• Providing first aid and critical care.

Skills

Critical Care

First Aid

Diagnostics

Education

RCVS registered

Job description

Veterinary Nurse – Weekends

Up to £17ph DOE plus benefits

Join the Team at Vets Now – Providing Exceptional Emergency Pet Care

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.

Make your weekends work at Vets Now

A weekend role with Vets Now allows you to further your ECC knowledge, whilst gaining a second income or balancing family commitments. You can work as little as two shifts per month

Working hours:

Friday nights from 19:00 to 09:00

Saturday days from 12:00 to 19:30

Sunday days from 09:00 to 21:00

Understanding your key role

Our nursing team are at the core of clinical treatment including triage, surgery, anaesthesia, and in-patient care. Key responsibilities will include:

• First Aid – give appropriate advice over the phone and perform in clinic.
• Critical Care – management and monitoring of major body systems, monitoring of in-patient trends and identifying changes quickly, physiotherapy, pain assessment, wound and dressing care.
• Diagnostics – confident to perform basic diagnostic procedures in a sole charge capacity.

Key requirements

• RCVS registered for a minimum of six months.
• Motivated to maintain high clinic standards.
• Passionate about caring for our clients and their pets.
• Experience with an ECC caseload is advantageous.

Unlock your potential

We will support you in your development and provide you with access to professional qualifications, such as our widely recognised ECC certificate and industry leading CPD package.

What we offer

• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced sick and maternity pay.
• 7 weeks pro rata annual leave.
• Your birthday as a paid day off.
• £1125 CPD allowance plus 20 paid hours pro rata.
• RCVS fees paid and ECC certificate support.
• Reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100s of retailers.
• UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer.
• Up to 50% discounted staff pet care.
• Death in service of two times annual salary.

If you would like to discuss this vacancy in more detail, please contact Julia in our Talent Team on 07535651164 or email [e-mail]

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.