The Vacancy
Weekend Veterinary Nurse – Out of Hours
Make a difference and be the Vet Nurse you trained to be
Our Glasgow hospital offers emergency and critical care, orthopedic, soft tissue, internal medicine and referrals, and we’re looking to add to our existing team with a weekend veterinary nurse. You will be part of our out of hours team and will be required to provide high-standard inpatient care for referral patients as well as incoming emergencies and critical care patients. This is an opportunity to work with Specialist and AP vets in a multi-discipline and supportive environment.
Working pattern
This role will be supporting our busy out of hours service on the weekends:
Every other Saturday and Sunday night shift times – 1700 to 0400, 1800 to 0500 or 2000 to 0700 depending on the needs of the hospital.
Make a difference and be the vet nurse you trained to be
With such a diverse caseload, Vet Nurses will be continually challenged. At Vets Now we invest heavily in the continuous professional development of all our people across the business. You will be supported and encouraged in achieving professional qualifications, and benefit from ongoing coaching and mentoring.
Your health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance
- Membership of employee wellbeing programme
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced maternity policy including 6 months full pay
- Family-friendly policies including paternity and adoption pay schemes
Your work life balance
- 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Paid volunteering days
Your development
- £1,125 CPD allowance increasing annually plus 20 paid hours pro rata
- ECC certificate support – financial and paid study leave
Your professional memberships
Your additional benefits
- Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s 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
For further information on this role please contact Reah in our Talent Team: [email protected]
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.
