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Job Title: Registered Veterinary Nurse
Salary: From £27,000 FTE
Location: Cinque Ports Vets, Rye branch
Job Type: Permanent, part-time (30 hours)
Hours: An average of 30 hours per week. Monday-Friday 8.5 hour shifts between 08:00-18:30, 1 in 4 Saturdays  8.00-16:00

Cinque Ports Vets are looking for a fabulous, pro-active nurse to join their team! If you’re 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 customer care team. 

We asked some of our fabulous nurse team what their favourite things are about nursing with at Cinque Ports:

“We have the time to spend with nervous patients, we use lots of social clinics, we use fear free handing and chemical restraint where necessary and we never, ever scruff cats”

“It’s the little things like having a calm, quiet, cat waiting area. The cats are never anywhere near any dogs and there are plenty of cat castles, roomy kennels and lots of Pet Remedy”

“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. We are proud to say that we've been awarded Gold and Silver Cat Friendly Clinic statuses and multiple RCVS awards.

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 Paige at [email protected]

We are proud to be Linnaeus, part of Mars.

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking group of highly respected primary care and specialist referral practices in the UK and Ireland. Being family owned and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the largest veterinary company in the world, allows us to focus on advancing the veterinary profession to provide industry-leading pet care and unique career opportunities for our people.

Why Linnaeus?

-    We pride ourselves in offering high-quality excellence of service and clinical care for our clients and their pets

-    We lead on sustainability and collectively drive positive change for people, pets and the planet

-    We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing – valuing equity, diversity and inclusion

-    We support your personal and professional development with best-in-class career frameworks and training programmes. We will empower and support you to grow your career from day one.

We team up within our Mars family in partnership for a stronger future.

Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We treat each other fairly and equitably and we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our Associates.

At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people.

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button or for more information or please reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]