Trainee Veterinary Nurse

Have you always wanted to train to be a veterinary nurse?

We are looking for our next trainee veterinary nurse and require an enthusiastic, motivated, and compassionate individual who has genuine passion in providing outstanding care and client experience.

Voo Vets is a family business that believes truly best pet healthcare is achieved by combining general, specialist and emergency care. There are 7 branch sites across London and Surrey and a central 24-hour veterinary hospital located in Surbiton, Surrey. We have excellent facilities and provide the absolute best in pet healthcare.

You will work between our Surrey clinics, Cobham, Ripley and Pyrford, due to the location of the Surrey clinics your own transport is a requirement.

You may have worked with animals and/or customer facing roles before and will require at least 5 GCSEs A* - C Grade (or equivalent) including Maths, English and a science, ideally with further training.

If you would love to work with people and pets and want to make a real difference to their lives then this is a fantastic opportunity for you.

The exciting part….

You would work with the veterinary team performing a range of nursing duties.

Voo is supportive and collaborative workplace so you will start learning and contributing from the start.

After 6-12 months you would be enrolled on a placement as a student veterinary nurse where you would train at the CAW college. This is fully funded by Voo and would lead to RCVS Registered Veterinary Nurse Title (Level 3 Diploma).

You would attend classroom teaching at college one day per week and continue to work with us the remaining time.

This is a full-time role, working 40 hours per week with 1 in 3 Saturdays, although the role could be suitable for part time, 28-30 hours are available.

As a trainee veterinary nurse, you would be responsible for:

• Pet handling for examinations and procedures

• Basic reception tasks: taking payments, answering telephones, and making bookings.

• Cleaning, sterilisation and disinfection

• Restocking

• Looking after patients in the hospital

• In-house laboratory testing (e.g. blood testing)

• Setting up for procedures

• Assisting the veterinary and nursing team monitoring anaesthesia and recovery

• Cleaning/bathing pets

Why work for Voo?

1) Supportive training environment

2) Fully funded training course

3) Great team spirit and regular team meet-ups.

4) Well maintained workplaces with great facilities for pets and people

5) Great long-term career progression and future salary prospects

6) RCVS fees paid by Voo.

7)There is no limit on how many hugs you can give to the pets we see!

8) Generous and growing benefit package

Does this sound like you?

• You enjoy working with animals and interacting with people too.

• You are hard-working, positive, and motivated to learn and develop your skills.

• You have practical skills and enjoy hands-on roles.

• You are a quick learner and learn best by being shown tasks (on the job learning)

• You have 5 GCSEs A*-C (to include Maths, English and Science)

• You have experience working with animals or experience in a practical or medical role.

• You enjoy working in a team, helping others.

• You are a positive and self-motivated to work independently completing tasks within time frames.

• You a friendly, approachable person who likes interacting and helping people too.