Registered Veterinary Nurse - Nights

Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital

The Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital is the first opinion small animal teaching hospital for the Royal Veterinary College. Our Hospital is patient focused, making animal welfare a top priority. We hold the gold standard accreditation for rabbit and cat friendly practice from the RWAF and ISFM respectively and promote low stress handling for all patients. Our progressive attitude towards veterinary care and the role of the veterinary nurse means we offer high standards of first opinion services and nurse led inpatient care.

We are seeking a Registered Veterinary Night Nurse, to manage and monitor in-patients, delivering the best level of comprehensive overnight care and customer service to our patients and clients. This post has a rolling shift pattern, working 21:00pm to 08.30am, 7 nights on followed by 7 nights off. 

The Hospital is located within walking distance of Camden, Euston and Kings Cross Stations, we have a spacious, modern facilities, with separate species specific clinical areas, offering routine and non-routine first opinion small animal procedures. We provide high quality veterinary care to the local community, as well as exotics referral services, with all team members receiving practical exotics training from our dedicated and experienced exotics team and our specialist Vets.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to advance your medical nursing techniques and develop your teaching skills, working alongside our team of clinicians, most of whom are Cert AVP holders. The role will suit any nurses wishing to pursue further study in a supportive learning environment, and offers free access to RVC CPD.

The successful applicant will be passionate about providing a high level of client and patient care, supporting our out-of-hour needs, sharing knowledge with colleagues and students and have strong clinical experience. Experience in working with exotic & small mammal patients would be an advantage.

We offer a generous reward package and benefits including: 

• 33 days annual leave pro rata, plus Bank Holidays, paid CPD days, free access to the RVC online CPD catalogue and a very impressive pension scheme.  
• Free membership to the on-site fitness centre 
• On site café and restaurant 
• Job satisfaction from providing first-class veterinary care to our local community.  
• A great working environment with highly qualified and friendly staff 

To discuss the role further or to arrange a chat with a member of our nursing team, please contact Lauren Hemmings - Head Veterinary Nurse lhemmings@rvc.ac.uk