Registered Veterinary Nurse

About us

With over 90 years of experience, we offer primary care services for small animals in multiple practices across Kent and Sussex. We provide a range of primary care services and a 24-hour emergency care services that run 365 days a year to ensure our patients are looked after at any time. We are accredited with a gold and silver Cat Friendly Clinic award and multiple RCVS awards to help provide the best quality care across our practices.

Your role and responsibilities

Do you enjoy variety, working alongside a supportive and experienced team as well as work/life balance?  Then join us as a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) working 4 days per week with 1 day at our Tenterden branch on a Monday and Hawkhurst branch Wednesday through to Friday.

We have a 1 in 3 Saturday mornings rota (8.30 – 13:00). There is no OOH, no on call and we have no inpatients over night as these will transfer to our main hospital in Ashford.  Flexibility is welcomed as there may be some additional branch cover for holiday / sickness as and when needed.

Salary of  £18,000 to £22,000 depending on experience.

Cinque Ports Hawkhurst and Tenderten are thriving two Vet practices with two experienced Nurses who run successful nurse clinics. We have a busy ops schedule and we will be utilising laparoscopic bitch spay equipment this year at Hawkhurst.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• RCVS & VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded and extensive, free Linnaeus CPD program provided by specialists/referral teams both online and in person (covid restrictions permitting)
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced Equal Family leave for birth/adoption
• Wellness program including Employee assistance program, Eyecare voucher scheme, Free annual Flu jab, Cycle to work scheme etc.
• Recruitment reward scheme

Part of an amazing global family

– caring for pets. 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.

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.