The Vacancy
Veterinary Nurse - Full Time
Up to £34,000 DOE plus benefits
Join our Emergency and Critical care service in Vets Now, Dundee
Vets Now are the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care. Our nationwide network of out-of-hours pet emergency clinics are open through the night, at weekends, and on bank holidays, so we’re ready and waiting to provide the care and support to pets and their owners at the time they need it most.
Help shape the future of Emergency and Critical Care
Advanced monitoring skills, critical care anesthesia, nursing, and caring for complex medical cases are a key part of a vet nurse role at Vets Now.
On shift you will work with a Vet Surgeon and during our busiest times, you will also have the support of an Animal Care Assistant and Vet Receptionist in the clinic and be supported by our Contact Centre and district team on-call.
Our clinics offer a busy and varied caseload allowing the development of your nursing skills and ECC experience.
Vets Now handle the largest emergency caseload in Europe affording you a breadth of opportunity to develop an ECC career.
Start the rewarding career you deserve
The successful applicant in our vet nurse role will be –
Rota pattern
A full-time role with Vets Now consists of 40 hours per week, 1 in 2 weekends which includes a weekend of days and a weekend of nights, the remaining shifts are weeknight night shifts, allowing you to find that perfect work-life balance.
Sample rota:
Week 1: Tuesday and Wednesday from 19:00 to 09:00, Saturday from 12:00 to 19:00 and Sunday from 08:30 to 20:30
Week 2: Wednesday and Thursday from 19:00 to 09:00
Week 3: Tuesday and Wednesday from 19:00 to 09:00, Saturday from 12:00 to 19:00 and Sunday from 08:30 to 20:30
Week 4: Wednesday and Thursday from 19:00 to 09:00
We do have a degree of flexibility with the weekend shift times.
Your health and wellbeing
Your work-life balance
Your development
Your professional memberships
Your additional benefits
For further information on this role please call Julia in our recruitment team at 07535651164 or email julia.duncan@vets-now.com
The Company
As the UK’s leading pet emergency service, we have a route to an exciting career in emergency and critical care for veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses, no matter where you are in your career.
Vets Now was founded by Richard Dixon, a veterinary surgeon who understood the pressures of being on-call which also trying to maintain a good quality of life.
Today, almost two decades since Richard did his first out-of-hours shift, we’re still just as passionate about emergency and critical care and our clinics are all managed by people who have worked as frontline vets or vet nurses.
In an emergency, pet owners want to know they’ve got the experts on board. And so do we.
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