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Registered Veterinary Nurse
Location: Highlands, Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent Practice: Cinque Ports Tenterden Salary: £29,120 per annum, Up to, dependent on experience Practice Details
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Job Title: Registered Veterinary Nurse
Salary: Up to £29,120 (DOE)
Location: Cinque Ports Vets, Tenterden branch
Job Type: Permanent, full-time
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday 8.5hr shifts between 8am and 7.30pm, Saturdays on a rota of 1 in 5 with a day off in lieu.
Cinque Ports Vets are looking for a fabulous, pro-active nurse to join their Tenterden team!
If you are you a Clinical Coach that is 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 little team. We are ideally looking for a clinical coach or someone willing to train as a clinical coach as we have a student about to start her 3rd year .
We asked some of our fabulous nurse team what their favourite things are about nursing with at Cinque Ports:
“We use fear free handing and chemical restraint where necessary and we never, ever scruff cats”
"We have a silver accreditation from ISFM and are mindful of not only our patients general wellbeing but their emotional needs too"
“We use multi-modal analgesia with pain scores. We even use local anaesthetic for our neutering's 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.
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 Purvi.Kataria@linnaeusgroup.co.uk
Part of an amazing global family
Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.
Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.
Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.
Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.
If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
