🐾 Exciting Opportunity for a Dedicated Registered Veterinary Nurse! 🐾
St Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom
An enthusiastic RVN is needed to step into a varied and rewarding role within a dedicated hospital team! 🏥✨
🏡 About the Practice & Location:
Situated in St Helens, Merseyside, the practice offers access to a thriving community with exceptional transport links. Both Liverpool and Manchester airports are just 30 minutes away, making travel simple, while affordable living, beautiful green spaces, local cafes, and easy access to North Wales, the Lake District, and the coast make it a fantastic place to live and work! 🌳✈️
The main hospital operates as a busy, RCVS-accredited first opinion and referral center, supported by 9 local branch surgeries. You will be joining an incredible nursing team comprising ACAs, SVNs, RVNs, and Diploma-holding RVNs who take immense pride in supporting one another! 🤝💙
🔬 About the Role & Team:
This role offers fantastic clinical variety! As part of the hospital team, your duties will rotate through:
- 🐶 Hospital Wards & Inpatient Care
- ✂️ Theatre (spanning both First Opinion and Referral cases)
- 🩺 Dermatology & Internal Medicine
- 💊 Dispensary, Laboratory Work & Nurse-Led Clinics
Rota:
- 🗓️ Shift Patterns: Alternate weeks of 7:00am – 3:00pm and 10:30am – 6:30pm, with a late shift (2:00pm – 10:00pm) roughly once every 8 weeks.
- ⏰ Weekends: 1 in 5 (working either a Saturday OR a Sunday).
- 🌙 OOH: NO NIGHTS! Dedicated night staff cover OOH, though extra paid night shifts are available if desired!
- 📅 Bank Holidays: Minimum of 1 per year (compensated with double pay + a day off in lieu).
🌟 About You:
To be considered for this position, you should:
- 🎓 Be a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN).
- ❤️ Possess a genuine passion for delivering high standards of care to both patients and clients.
- 🩺 Enjoy a diverse nursing workload including surgical nursing, patient care, lab work, and consultations.
🎁 Benefits & Salary
- 💰 Salary: Highly competitive, dependent on experience.
- 🌴 30 days holiday (including Bank Holidays).
- 📚 £600 annual CPD allowance with full training & progression support.
- 💳 RCVS membership fee paid + 1 additional professional membership subscription.
- 🛡️ VDS cover included.
- 🏥 Health Shield scheme (contributions towards dental care, sports massage, wellbeing, etc.).
- 🍼 Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental, and surrogacy pay.
- 🐾 Generous employee discount on veterinary services.
- 🚲 Cycle to Work scheme.
- 🤒 Company Sick Pay & focused employee wellbeing initiatives.
- 📈 Annual pay reviews.
📩 How to Apply
For a confidential chat or to submit your application, please contact Luke Morris: 📧 Email: luke.morris@gvcvets.com 📞 Phone: 01392 793 256 📲 WhatsApp: 07479 954133