Job title: Registered Veterinary Nurse  

Location: Village Vets Milton, Cambridgeshire   

Job type: Permanent   

Salary: From £28,350 per annum   

Hours: Part time, average 27.42 hours per week over 3 days with 1 in 6 weekends 

Fantastic opportunity for an RVN to join an established Tier 3 Cambridgeshire hospital in a part-time position!   

The Role:  

Our RCVS accredited Milton Hospital has a real emphasis in ECC and medicine, and by hosting our own Vet24 OOH service, we see an exciting and varied case load, benefiting from a continuity of day and night clinical care. Many local practices feed into our Milton clinic, resulting in a true critical care case load. No day is ever the same. We are well equipped with everything you would expect, including endoscopes, full in-house laboratory assessments including blood gas analysis and coagulation times, digital X-rays including dental X-rays, ultrasound with linear and phased array probes, video gastroscope, bronchoscope and laparoscope, fully equipped theatre for ECC surgery and dental suite. There is a separate cat and dog ward, and we are proud to have silver cat friendly status. We also have on-site parking available for the team.   

As an RVN on our day team, you will get to experience all areas of nursing, including nurse clinics which area really encouraged. We have a brilliant team of experience Vets, nurses, and support staff, several of whom have their own interests and certificates.  With our twilight and night team also on site, this is a day only role.  We have a strong ethos at Village Vets Cambridge, and you will be welcomed into and honest and open team who really work well to support and encourage each other.  We love to support individual interests and can offer great in-house training opportunities, making the perfect environment to grow your skill.  

Hours are part time, and we can be flexible, ideally 3 days per week with a share of the 1 in 6 weekend rota.  EIN rota paid extra. There are no nights or inpatient checks with this role. 1 bank holiday per year which is paid extra and with a day back in lieu.    

Benefits:   

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave  

• RCVS 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   

• Employer contribution pension scheme   

• Wellness program including   

• Employee assistance program   

• Eyecare voucher scheme   

• Free annual Flu jab   

• Cycle to work scheme   

• Recruitment referral reward scheme   

About us   

Village Vet Cambridge has a long established, excellent reputation for providing outstanding care for pets and clients alike. Our veterinary nurses are the foundation of the work that we do.   With five unique sites in the region, we are fortunate to be able to offer a variety of roles, offering our nurses the opportunity to shape their career so it is a perfect fit whatever that may be. With job satisfaction and happiness at work being one of our biggest priorities we hope you will consider a role with us and would love to hear from you.   

We can offer a transparent career framework for professional progression, alongside excellent pay and benefits. We have supported many nurses with their growth and development over the years, resulting in high retention levels. We are building an open-minded, progressive culture and being part of the Linnaeus and Mars group enables us to truly invest in the long-term future, not just for short-term gains. Our commitment to sustainable and responsible growth is real and exists at every level and our supportive line management system is well established, offering frequent 1:1s and career coaching.   

A Village Vet nursing role includes a wide breadth of nursing duties, incorporating the management of complex medical and surgical patients, provision of perioperative care, assisting with the provision of anaesthesia and schedule III procedures, as well as supporting the patient journey from admission to discharge. We also support our clients with regular (and busy!) nurse clinics. Our vets are amazing, many of them are certificate holders and some are advanced practitioners too. Our veterinary surgeons appreciate and respect the nursing team, valuing their professionalism and input.    

We pride ourselves on learning and evidence-based progression and support this with a generous CPD budget and regular training events. Your personal study and learning would be actively encouraged as part of a bespoke professional development plan. If there is something you want to do? We will work with you to make it happen!