Veterinary Coordinator

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Department: Rehoming & Fostering Services

Final date to receive applications: 1 June 2025

Department: Rehoming & Fostering Services

Location: Devon

Compensation: £11,700 - £13,000 / year

Description

Contract:
Permanent, part time (3 days per week)
Salary: £23,400 - £26,000 FTE per annum (£11,700 - £13,000 for 18.75 hours)
Location:
Exeter EX2 8ED

Closing date:
Sunday 1 June 2025
Interview date:
Wednesday 11 June 2025

We’re recruiting a Veterinary Coordinator for our Rehoming & Fostering team at our rehoming, advice & behaviour unit in Devon! Our Veterinary Coordinators ensure our clinical standards and veterinary interventions are consistently applied across our service offerings at our centres, leading to more efficient and cost-effective solutions.

More about the role

At our Rehoming, advice & behaviour unit in Devon, our foster-based care and Home Direct Scheme ensures animals find loving homes without the stress of kennels. This means that we do not usually have pets staying onsite overnight and our roles may not include daily pet care, but no two days are ever the same.

As a Veterinary Coordinator you will oversee the provision of all veterinary care linked to your Centre services, working with our Veterinary Specialist and other Veterinary Coordinators across the Rehoming and Fostering network to ensure consistency of approach and potential economies of scale. The process of rehoming a pet has three key stages from admitting the pet through to adoption and continually ensuring spaces are refilled.

You will be responsible for providing veterinary interventions for all these stages.

This role will be a driving force in ensuring our veterinary interventions are efficient, so we can reduce un-necessary delays in a pet’s rehoming journey and make sure that pet welfare is at the heart of everything we do. You will do this by making pragmatic, welfare focused decisions reaching out to other Veterinary Coordinators and subject matter experts when required.

Working pattern

This is a part time role working on the following fixed working pattern.

Week 1 – Monday & Wednesday
Week 2 – Monday, Wednesday & Thursday

If you excel in an environment where you can see the difference you make every day, then this is the role for you. Interested? Then apply and let’s work together to see if this is the role for you.

About you

You will have an excellent knowledge of veterinary practice by working in a similar animal rescue or clinical environment. In addition, you will be passionate about pet welfare and motivated by sharing your knowledge and providing good, sound, and pragmatic advice to others. You will also have experience of assessing pets, ensuring that any behavioural issues are taken into account when considering medical interventions.

Your advice and approach will be evidence based, welfare focused and in line with Blue Cross Clinical guidelines and standard operating procedures.

You will enjoy building relationships not just internally but externally, being confident to work with a range of people such as other vets/vet nurses, volunteers, team members and members of the public. Communication and consistency of approach is really important, so you should be comfortable nurturing face to face local relationships as well as at a national level.

We don’t ‘rest on our laurels’ at Blue Cross so you should enjoy continually looking for improvements, seeking opportunities to make our pet veterinary approach as efficient as we can, without compromising pet welfare. You will enjoy working with your colleagues who care for the pets and provide adoption and admission support and be open to take onboard their ideas for improving the services we provide.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

• Experience of working in a veterinary practice or a similar animal rescue environment with a good understanding of shelter medicine principles.
• Demonstrable experience and competence in handling and working with a…