Job Title: Registered Veterinary Nurse
Salary: From £27,000 FTE
Location: Cinque Ports Vets, Rye branch
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours, Monday - 10 hour shift, rest of the 30 hours spread over 4 days, 1 in 5 TOIL when worked a Saturday
Cinque Ports Vets are looking for a fabulous, pro-active nurse to join their team! If you’re passionate about setting high standards of care with a gentle, kind, and empathetic nature we want to hear from you.
Role and Responsibilities
You will be doing what you do best – nursing. We fully utilise our nurses and encourage them to excel in all areas. You will be fully supported to achieve this by our fantastic customer care team.
We asked some of our fabulous nurse team what their favourite things are about nursing with us:
* “We have the time to spend with nervous patients, we use lots of social clinics, we use fear free handling and chemical restraint where necessary and we never, ever scruff cats.”
* “It’s the little things like having a calm, quiet cat waiting area. The cats are never anywhere near any dogs and there are plenty of cat castles, roomy kennels and lots of Pet Remedy.”
* “We use multi-modal analgesia with pain scores. We even use local anaesthetic for our neutering as standard.”
* “We are a close-knit team with a family feel and no out-of-hours.”
Benefits Include
* 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
* RCVS and VDS fees paid
* External CPD funded
* Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
* Career progression opportunities
* Staff discount schemes
* Life Assurance
* Enhanced sickness pay
* Enhanced equal family leave
* E-car salary sacrifice scheme
* Recruitment referral reward scheme
* Wellness program including:
* Employee assistance program
* Eyecare voucher scheme
* Free annual Flu jab
* Cycle to work scheme
About Us
Cinque Ports Vets have over 90 years' experience providing outstanding care for pets across Kent and Sussex. Working with VetsNow, we provide a 24-hour emergency care service from our hospital, ensuring our patients continue to receive excellent round-the-clock care. We are proud to say that we've been awarded Gold and Silver Cat Friendly Clinic statuses and multiple RCVS awards.
Cinque Ports Vets, as part of Linnaeus, are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.
If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Specialist Purvi at
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