Veterinary Nurse - Part Time (Backshifts)

Vet Nurse – Part Time (Backshifts)

Up to £15ph DOE plus benefits

Join our Emergency and Critical care service in Vets Now, Edinburgh

Vets Now are the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care. Our nationwide network of out-of-hours pet emergency clinics are open through the night, at weekends and on bank holidays, so we’re ready and waiting to provide the care and support to pets and their owners at the time they need it most.

Help shape the future of Emergency and Critical Care

Advanced monitoring skills, critical care anesthesia, nursing, and caring for complex medical cases are a key part of a vet nurse role at Vets Now.

On shift you will work with a Vet Surgeon and during our busiest times you will also have the support of an Animal Care Assistant and Vet Receptionist in clinic and be supported by our Contact Centre and district team on-call.

Our clinics offer a busy and varied caseload allowing the development of your nursing skills and ECC experience.

Vets Now handle the largest emergency caseload in Europe affording you a breadth of opportunity to develop an ECC career.

Rota pattern

Every other week – Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 18:00 to 00:00

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

• £1125 CPD allowance increasing annually plus 20 paid hours pro rata
• ECC certificate support – financial and paid study leave

Your professional memberships

• RCVS fees
• VDS cover

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 call Julia in our recruitment team on 07535651164 or email julia.duncan@vets-now.com