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OOH Veterinary Nurse - Part Time (Solihull)

Employer
608 Vet Practice
Location
Solihull, West Midlands
Salary
Salary Competitive
Closing date
23 Dec 2021

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About Us:

608 Vet Practice

Established for over 80 years, 608 Vet Practice offer primary care services for small animals and pets in the locations of Solihull, Acocks Green and Bentley Health. All our practices offer a full range of veterinary care, 24 hours a day seven days a week from our highly experienced team who strive to provide excellent quality veterinary care.

The Role:

We have an opportunity for an experienced RVN to join our fantastic hospital working 1 OOH weekends in 6

The role is Saturday and Sunday, 7.00pm to 8.30am. You will work with a Vet and a PCA is available until 9pm. Checks on in-patients are required every two hours throughout the night, those at 3am and 5am are shared between the team. We are a small animal practice and provide OOH care to 2 other vets along with clients that have no provision.

We are offering:

  • Pay: £16 per hour
  • Holiday: 5 weeks

Duties include: 

  • answering phones, 
  • dispensing medication, 
  • taking payments, 
  • carrying out lab tests, 
  • admitting and discharging patients, 
  • assist night vet with any consultations or operations, 
  • administer treatments to in-patients as scheduled, 
  • walk patients, 
  • maintain records, etc.

We are a sixteen-vet small animal practice, including a separate team that provides on-site emergency care for us and local practices. We have a full range of diagnostic equipment including doppler ultrasound, CR, ASIF and external fixation, endoscopes, tonovet pen, slit lamp, multi parameter monitors, in-house laboratory with experienced technician and lots of caring RVNs to provide a high standard of diagnosis, treatments and hospitalisation for our patients 24 hours a day.

We will provide funded CPD and are a friendly practice with a lot of experienced vets and nurses who encourage the sharing of knowledge and advice but welcome new ideas.

Part of an amazing global family

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets

Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

Company

About 608

608 Vet Practice was founded in 1932 in Knowle. In 1951, services transferred to our current main surgery at 608 Warwick Road, Solihull.

Our two branch surgeries in Acocks Green and Bentley Heath have been established for over forty years.

All surgeries offer a full range of routine veterinary care:

  • Consultations
  • Vaccinations
  • Flea and worm treatments
  • Microchipping
  • Neutering
  • Nutritional advice
  • Advice on taking pets abroad
  • Repeat Prescriptions

Patients requiring hospitalisation are cared for 24 hours a day at the Solihull surgery, where our dedicated emergency team is based.

Our hospitalisation facilities include walk-in kennels for bigger dogs, an isolation area for infectious cases, separate cat ward, incubators for extra warmth and oxygen and vivaria for our more exotic patients.

Our operating facilities allow us to perform a range of surgery from routine neutering procedures to complex repairs of broken bones.

We are proud to have one of the most advanced in-house laboratories in the country run by our experienced lab technician with vet nurse support.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0121 703 2506
Location
608 Warwick Road
Solihull
B91 1AA
United Kingdom

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