Registered Veterinary Nurse

Salary: Up to £34,500 depending on experience

Location: Vet 4 Life Surbiton, Teddington & Shepperton
  40 - 44 Brighton Road, KT6 5PL

    160 High Street, Teddington, TW11 8HZ

    7 Station Approach, Shepperton, TW17 8AR

Job Type: FIXED TERM - 6 month cover - maternity cover

Hours: 4-day working week with 1 in 3 Saturdays and 1 in 9 Sundays

        Weekday early shift:   7:30 am – 5:00 pm

        Weekday late shift:    10: 30 am – 8:00 pm

        Saturday hours: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm (Branch to be confirmed on posting)

        Sunday hours:  9:45 am – 4:00 pm (Teddington)

Your role and responsibilities

Vet 4 Life is looking to recruit a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) to support our existing team in providing exceptional care to our patients. This is a very exciting time to join Vet 4 Life as we continue to expand the primary care services we offer to our clients and their pets.  

You will work as part of our team of vets, registered veterinary nurses, student veterinary nurses, animal care assistants and customer care assistance to coordinate and deliver high quality, contextualised patient care and customer service alongside our team. 

You must have a good understanding of primary care which, following an induction alongside our team, will allow you to support patients undergoing investigations, procedures and treatments into a wide range of primary care conditions. 

You must demonstrate excellent customer care and communication skills, allowing you to participate knowledgeably in post-operative client contact, offering guidance and support to owners following their pet's procedure. 

You must be confident performing nurse consultations, supporting the clients with a variety of nurse led consults.

You will be encouraged to enhance this growing service by sharing your valuable ideas. This is a great opportunity for an RVN with a keen interest in primary care to develop their understanding and practical abilities alongside our wonderful team.

This is an exciting opportunity to build upon your interest in primary care in a supported environment with a large and varied caseload. 

Benefits

Five weeks of annual leave + bank holidays + a day off on or around your birthdayRCVS & VDS fees paidExternal CPD funded up to £500/yearExtensive free online Linnaeus CPD programCareer progression opportunitiesStaff discount schemesLife AssuranceE-car salary sacrifice schemeEmployer contribution pension schemeWellness program including:Employee assistance programEyecare voucher schemeFree annual Flu jabCycle to work schemeRecruitment referral reward scheme

About us

Vet 4 Life is a three-site small animal primary care practice based in Southwest London and Surrey. Our vision is to provide the very best, community-based, professional veterinary care in the Southwest and Surrey, where pets and their owners come first. Our committed veterinary team and well-equipped practices ensure we can tailor to any patient's needs with compassion, care and empathy.

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking partnership of highly respected primary care and referral veterinary practices across the UK and Ireland, comprising some of the best clinicians in the profession.

We are all individuals but two important things bring us together; a commitment to excellence in everything we do and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

At Linnaeus we carefully select the practices we partner with to ensure the highest levels of patient care across our group. Together we provide a growing community of like-minded veterinary professionals who are passionate about what they do. We work with different types of practices, in every field of veterinary medicine, including small animal, farm and equine.

We also have our Five Principles which form the foundation of how we do business today and every day and we put these at the centre of every decision we make. This means:

We are committed to Quality of work and contributions to society. We embrace our Responsibility (as individuals and a company) to act now. We base decisions on Mutuality of benefit to our stakeholders. We harness the power of Efficiency to use our resources to maximum effect. We have the financial Freedom to make our own decisions, unrestricted by motivations of others.