Veterinary Nurse - Exotics - Full Time
The Vacancy
Full Time Exotics Veterinary Nurse – Great Western Exotics
Up to £30,000 DOE plus benefits
Nightshift working incurs a top up payment of up to £20ph DOE
Company Overview
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. Great Western Exotics is the leading avian and exotics animal specific veterinary service in the UK. We provide an emergency service for pets and vets, first opinion clients, and referral support for critical and complex cases.
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.
Working pattern
4 x 10 hour shifts Monday to Friday working either 07:30 to 18:00, 08:00 to 18:30 or 09:00 to 19:30
1:8 weekends working Saturday and Sunday either 07:30 to 18:00, 08:00 to 18:30 or 09:00 to 19:30
There will be a requirement to work as part of the night rota on occasion to cover holidays when required. These shifts would be communicated in advance and would include working 7 shifts on either 19:00 to 08:00 or 18:30 to 08:00 with time off after. Working as part of the nights rota incurs a top up payment of up to £20ph DOE.
Plus, a fair share of bank holidays.
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.
Why Join Us?
- Private medical insurance.
- Enhanced sick and maternity pay.
- 7 weeks annual leave.
- Your birthday as a paid day off.
- £1125 CPD allowance plus 20 paid hours.
- 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 Lauren in our Talent Team on 07977940379 or email Lauren.O’Halloran@vets-now.com.
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.
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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