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Dispensary Registered Veterinary Nurse

Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital

Location:  Camden (King's Cross, London)
Salary:  £27,626 to £30,191 Inclusive of London Weighting
Permanent / Full Time
Closing Date:  23.59 hours BST on Sunday 20 October 2024
Interview Date:  Thursday 24 October 2024
Reference:  CSS-0262-24

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated RVN to take leadership of our dispensary.

You will be responsible for the management of our dispensary. Your duties will include liaising with external and internal stakeholders, maintenance of the laboratory equipment, advising clients on their patients’ medication, creating and updating SOP’s. Working alongside our dispensary assistant you will also be carrying out daily dispensing duties such as making up client’s medication.

Our university teaching hospital is based in Camden and this role offers an excellent opportunity to advance your confidence, as well as develop your teaching skills by supporting final year vet students and acting as a clinical coach to our trainee nursing students.

This is a full-time role (35 hours/week), with 4 days on-call every 1 in 16 weeks and occasional weekend cover for annual leave.

The Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital is the first opinion small animal teaching hospital with a specialist exotics referral service for the Royal Veterinary College. Located within walking distance of Camden, Euston, and Kings Cross Stations. We have a spacious, modern hospital, with separate species-specific clinical facilities. We provide high quality veterinary care to the local community, as well as a shelter medicine teaching programme in support of our objectives for clinical service, teaching, and research.

Regular in- house training is provided in conjunction with access to external CPD. We offer a generous reward package and benefits including:

  • 30 days annual leave pro rata, plus Bank Holidays and Concessionary days, 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

For further details and enquiries, please contact Olivia Wright, Senior Veterinary Nurse (owright5@rvc.ac.uk) or Lauren Hemmings Head Veterinary Nurse (lhemmings@rvc.ac.uk).


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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The RVC values Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and therefore welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities.   Balancing both the needs of the business with those of our staff, we will consider applications to work on a flexible basis.


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