Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate Veterinary Care Assistant to join our Colne Vets for Pets practice.


Our practice is bright, spacious, air-conditioned and recently expanded to industry leading standards and has state of the art equipment including digital X-ray and in-house laboratory facilities.


As a Veterinary Care Assistant, you'll play a vital role in supporting our team in delivering exceptional care. You will be maintaining cleanliness and hygiene in the clinic, kennels, and prep areas, assisting smooth efficient running of the clinical team, and ensuring comfort of our patients. You will be performing a range of tasks, such as admitting patients, booking appointments by phone, helping to monitor recoveries, dispensing medication, packing instrumentation, and running laboratory tests. Training and support provided, but some animal related experience is essential.

This is a Full Time role involving hours between 8.30am and 7pm and will include working 1 in 3 Saturdays.

If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare, exceptional customer service and would like to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.

The attributes required

You are calm, attentive, and always focus on the clients' and patients' needs. You will bring enthusiasm and drive to your role. Your passion for service is matched with your love of pets. You can adjust appropriately to varied situations, from comforting a client who has had some bad news about their pet or sharing in the joy of a new puppy's first visit to the vet. You can multitask and have high personal standards. You create a welcoming and friendly atmosphere in the practice.

In short, you like to be busy, enjoy helping people and their pets and always endeavour to make a difference.

Benefits

In return, we offer such benefits as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension and holiday allowance. The salary for this role is up to 13 per hour.


We want our colleagues to be as diverse as our clients. Our teams are inclusive and celebrate difference so if you meet our role requirements, we'd love to hear from you.

Location

: BB8 8LU

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don't perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!