Animal Care Assistant – Weekends

About the Job

Animal Care Assistant – Vets Now South-West England clinics

£13.00ph plus benefits

Be part of the UK’s leading provider of Emergency Pet Care

Vets Now are the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care, providing a trusted service to more than 1400 veterinary practices – from 58 dedicated out-of-hours clinics and three 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. As a Animal Care Assistant you will work across the following clinics: Southampton, Portsmouth, Swindon, Bath, Salisbury, Winchester and Bournemouth.

Work hands-on in our busy Emergency and critical care clinics

An Animal Care Assistant is invaluable on a busy shift in an emergency clinic. You will be trained in assisting the clinical teams to provide a comfortable and stress free, in-patient environment. Under the guidance of our Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons, you can expect to be handling patients for basic procedures, assisting with running diagnostic tests and ensuring all pets in our care are as comfortable as they can be. You could be asked to help set up and clear down a theatre for surgical procedures, as well as making sure all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.

Working pattern

This role will involve working every other weekend, as well as overtime opportunities both during the weekend and at weekends. The Saturday and Sunday shifts times will be as follows:

• 08:30-19:30
• 12:00-19:30
• 18:00-00:00
• 19:00-09:00

Ideal candidate for the role

• Experience in animal handling
• Flexibility to work out of all the clinics listed above
• Flexibility to work different shifts times
• Ability to pick additional shifts at short notice
• Excellent customer service skills

What we offer in return for your hard work and dedication

Recognising hard work is really important to us. Our employees are our greatest asset which is why we offer a first-class benefits and rewards package that includes:

• 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
• Your birthday as a paid day off
• Cash Health Plan provided by Simply Health
• Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
• £780 CPD allowance increasing annually pro-rata
• 10 hours paid CPD hours annually pro-rata
• Family-friendly policies including sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes
• UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
• Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
• Paid volunteering days
• Death in service of two times annual salary