Head Nurse - Leeds

Head Registered Veterinary Nurse - Middleton, Leeds

Harrison Family Vets are a family owned, independent group of busy, growing clinics providing pet health care that is second to none. Quality pet-focused healthcare career with a fun journey guaranteed!

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, enthusiastic pet and people person to join our wonderful Middleton practice as Head Registered Veterinary Nurse. This will include general RVN duties, managing the RVN and reception team, conducting one-to-ones, team rota, and some general administrative duties. You will be working as part of an experienced RVN team, 3 fantastic vets, 1 VCA and 2 experienced front of house care co-ordinators. Our state-of-the-art clinic has 5 consult rooms, separate dog, cat and exotics wards with casco kennels, our innovative pod design in the waiting area, dental suite etc.

• 37.5 hours per week
• Shifts range from 8.30am-4.30pm to 11am-7pm
• Saturday morning rota 8.30am-1pm
• Nurse clinics
• Schedule 3 where applicable
• General 1st opinion theatre work
• A true family practice with a supportive, friendly team
• A pet-centric Fear Free practice
• New state-of-the-art clinic and equipment
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays (Good Friday worked but day in lieu given)
• Company events (fun Christmas party, regular socials etc)
• Day off for birthday
• Three days off to work for a local charity of your choice
• Free preventative healthcare plan for your pets plus generous discounts
• Private medical insurance
• Gym contribution

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

• We provide a positive environment where you will be supported by vastly experienced owners that you will know and work with.
• Being part of a fast growing and young practice is exciting. We guarantee you will enjoy the ride and have fun!
• You will be part of a team of like-minded colleagues.
• We are people focused, ask any of our team. The deal is that you work hard and in return we will look after you to the best of our ability.
• We are pet centric - we are the first veterinary practice outside of north America to be Fear Free accredited. This is the standard of care our pets deserve.

BENEFITS OF A CAREER WITH US

• Funded CPD and scope for certificate study
• Day off for birthday
• 3 days to volunteer for local charity or good cause
• Ad hoc CPD trips to South of France
• Out of the hat places to North American veterinary conferences!
• Company wide social events e.g. Christmas party
• Team quarterly fun budget
• Free Total Wellness Plans for your pets plus generous discounts

FAMILY-OWNED & INDEPENDENT

Being family-owned and independent means security, trust and ensures we are aligned with our vision and mission to deliver not only our key principles, Quality, Integrity, Passion, and Growth, but also to be the kind of veterinary practice that we are proud of.

We have three generations of the Harrison Family working within our business - Tim, our Managing Director, works alongside his daughter, Annabel, and father, Craig.

Further it means that we are free to make our own decisions and are not governed by remote owners. This gives us the freedom to act in the best interests of our clinics, our team members, our clients, and most importantly, your pets.

FEAR FREE

We understand that pets are part of the family, so as standard our teams are accredited 'Fear Free' professionals who can prevent and alleviate potential fear and stress experienced by your pets during their visit. To achieve this, amongst many other things, our ward areas have classical music playing and softer lighting than that of clinical areas, plus stress-relieving pheromone plug ins are used throughout our wards and wider clinic.

We understand the differing needs of species and as such our cat wards have individual hideaway units so that they may feel more secure, weighing scales are covered with fake grass to be more appealing to our canine patients, and we obviously use an abundance of delicious and distracting treats to distract to make the journey as stress free as possible for all.

Our Reading & Kingswinford clinics are Fear Free certified

OUR PRINCIPLES TOTAL WELLNESS PLAN

Health plans are nothing new to our industry and are predominantly cost saving in nature.

Our fantastic Total Wellness Plan not only reduces cost for routine preventative products and services, but more importantly eliminates veterinary consult fees completely and introduces a yearly comprehensive physical examination, including blood and urine screening to pick up any subtle indicators of early disease. The plan exists to remove barriers to care, and help pets live longer, healthier lives.

For an informal chat about current and future vacancies please