Job Description

Exercise your full range of clinical skills in this hands-on veterinary nursing role, starting in June 2010. At Vets Now you’ll enjoy treating an interesting emergency caseload and will benefit from excellent ongoing training and support, plus plenty of opportunities to develop your career and a flexible working pattern.

Role Summary
Working in a Vets Now clinic will give you the opportunity to be the nurse you trained to be – you’ll enjoy a hands-on role treating a varied caseload, where no two shifts are quite the same! As part of a small team (working alongside a sole charge vet and a receptionist) you’ll provide nursing care for small animal emergency patients including clinical monitoring, drug administration, and hospitalised cases. You’ll also assist the veterinary surgeon with anaesthesia, surgery and clinical procedures.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop your career. Our nurses are supported and encouraged to exercise and develop their skills by taking on schedule 3 procedures, plus you’ll benefit from unrivalled investment in your clinical skills and CPD, alongside the support network and equipment you require to deliver the highest standards of clinical and client care.

Working Pattern
We currently have both part time and full time opportunities avaialble in Ipswich.  As a rough guide, full time at Vets Now typically means an average of just 3 night shifts per week with a share of weekend days & public holiday days.

Shift times (to be confirmed) are a share of: Monday to Friday nights from 6.30pm to 8.30am, Saturday night 6pm-9am and Sunday night 6pm to 8.30am), plus a share of weekend day shifts (Saturdays 12noon-6pm, Sundays 9am-6pm) and your share of bank holidays.

Clinic Description
Vets Now Ipswich is due to open summer 2010 to provide an Out Of Hours emergency service on behalf of Member Practices across the region. Based in a modern and friendly private practice, with excellent facilities, the clinic will provide a lovely working environment. You’ll have access to the latest equipment, including a digital x-ray, ECG, I stats, IDEXX machine, Multi parameter monitor and flexible and rigid endoscope.

Who we’re looking for
You don’t necessarily need to have lots of experience of Emergency and Critical Care. In our opinion, ECC is really about doing good quality medicine well, and of course developing your ECC skills through ongoing training. So all we ask is that you are fully qualified, RCVS registered and have a minimum of 6 months experience working within an English speaking small animal practice. You should also be comfortable working sole charge, confident in your clinical ability and of course legally eligible to work in the UK.

Your CPD
We’re passionate about developing our people and their skills. You’ll receive clinical skills development and paid veterinary nursing CPD through our tailored On-Site Training Programme, a thorough full induction, as well as a very generous CPD allowance to develop your own particular ECC areas of interest. So whether you’re from an ECC background or not, our induction and ongoing CPD will provide the foundation for a great career with us.

Your Package
You will be well rewarded as we offer a competitive salary, and access to our excellent flexible benefits package, which can be tailored to meet your individual needs and lifestyle. You’ll also be eligible for our Clinic Bonus Scheme, which for an on target performance can add at least 2.5% of your salary. In addition, we provide a regional allowance in selected locations.

Other lifestyle benefits include generous discounts with a wide range of leading UK and international retailers and the holiday allowance for full time permanent employees is 28 days (pro rata for part time).

Next Steps
If the enjoyment of Emergency and Critical Care, our culture, a better work/life balance and the training is appealing then please get in touch!
To apply please click ”Apply now” button below, or for an informal chat about this or other roles, please call us on 01383 841181.