At Vets Now, we believe diversity – of background, experience, and perspective – is important in building strong teams. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment in our clinical and support office roles.
Our Diversity & Inclusion working group makes sure diversity issues are kept top-of-mind across the business. This group, with members pulled different teams across the business, meet regularly to review what we’re doing as a company to foster inclusion and brainstorm ideas about what we could be doing better.
Vets Now sponsor this scheme to widen access to the vet nursing profession to traditionally underrepresented communities. Successful scholars are awarded an annual grant, mentoring opportunities from our scholarship board, and a support network to lean on throughout their studies.
Learn more about our scholarshipVets Now have a Green Group of different departments within the business that meets quarterly to aim to educate, inspire and motivate our teams to take action to reduce their environmental impact at work and home, one step at a time.
Our vision is to bring sustainability to the forefront of Vets Now’s everyday behaviour and decision-making as a company and individuals.
Some of the achievements of the group are below.
Each of our Vets Now clinics Green Champion – a member of staff who encourages and reminds the team to consider the environment as they do their daily work in the clinics. The Green Champions also champion our Environmental Sustainability Policies in our clinics. Our Green Champions will meet every so often to exchange ideas – small ideas can make big changes.
Vets Now are committed to reducing our environmental impact across all our sites. Our ESP guides our clinic staff on how to reduce their energy and water consumption, reduce their waste and where they create waste, and how to dispose of it responsibly. We also guide on how to use medicines responsibly.
To save paper in clinics by driving paperless processes, whereby the client is asked to consent and sign via an App, rather than by printing out on paper.
Via the Woodland Trust, we have arranged to plant 22 trees in the gardens of several of our clinics
Our Support Office arranges an annual litter pick in the environs of the office
The Support Office has a garden which has borne spinach and cabbage, and kale
This is open to all employees to encourage them to take the bike rather than the car
Which has 155 members, and green group newsletters and updates on the Vets Now intranet
