Registered Veterinary Nurse

Registered Veterinary Nurse

Highcliff Veterinary Practice, Hadleigh

Up to £31,500 DOE

Full time, 40 hours per week

Join a team where your experience truly matters

You will carry out a varied nursing role including nurse clinics, anaesthesia, inpatient care and supporting surgical procedures. There is no reception cover required, allowing you to focus fully on clinical nursing and developing your skills and interests within practice.

This is a full time role working 40 hours per week. Shifts are worked Monday to Friday on a rotating early, middle and late pattern, with participation in a Saturday morning rota included within contracted hours. There is no out of hours requirement.

Highcliff Vets is a long established but modern practice based in the heart of a charming Suffolk market town, surrounded by beautiful countryside and close to the historic coastline, with good links to London.

You will be joining a close knit team of seven Vets, six Nurses and a Student Veterinary Nurse, with nursing experience ranging from newly qualified through to over 15 years. The veterinary team includes a certificate holder in imaging and an experienced orthopaedic surgeon, offering excellent exposure to a varied and interesting caseload. The practice is well equipped with digital x-ray, ultrasound, video endoscopy, multiparameter monitoring and a class 4 laser.

• Fully qualified RCVS Registered Veterinary Nurse
• A team focused and enthusiastic approach
• Confidence working in a busy first opinion practice
• A desire to provide high standards of patient and client care

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly, experienced team where nursing is truly valued and supported, with the chance to develop your skills in a well equipped and progressive practice.

We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from

• 6.6 weeks annual leave
• Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
• Your birthday as a paid day off

• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing, including discounted gym membership
• Non-accidental injury support

• £550 CPD allowance
• Certificate Support
• Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy
• Access to Vetlexicon - our online encyclopaedia provider
• All our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding
• Infection Prevention and Control Programme
• Quality Improvement Programme

• VDS cover
• RCVS fees

• Pawsome Benefits - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
• Pension - 5% Employee/3% Employer
• Discounted staff pet care