Registered Veterinary Nurse (Maternity Cover) - Arbury Road Vets

December 3, 2024

Are you looking for a practice that allows you to develop your Nursing skills? Would you love to work within a team that is as passionate about animal care as you are?

We have a great opportunity for a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our team here at Arbury Road. This role can be anywhere from 30-40 hours per week Monday to Friday, plus 1 in 3 Saturday mornings. No on call or OOHs requirements. This is a fixed term contract covering maternity for 9-12 months.

Our people are our greatest source of pride. We've worked hard over the years to build a strong, stable and respectful team. As a result, we love coming to work and see each other not just as colleagues, but as friends too.

Our Nursing team are incredibly well supported and we are encouraged to pursue our own areas of interest and develop our skills across all aspects of veterinary nursing. Progression is important to us within our clinics, so if you have an idea of where you see your career going please let us know and we can put a plan in place to help you achieve this!

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Our standard benefits include:

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (or equivalent) with our Buy/Sell holiday scheme - allowing you to purchase an additional two weeks of annual leave
Generously encouraged and fully funded CPD - abundant opportunities within the business aided by internal and external development courses and programmes
Receive an extra days leave each year in your first 5 years at CVS
Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay
Employee Assistance Programme
Pension scheme - automatic enrolment and completely hassle free
Access to First Aid for Mental Health and Wellbeing Champions across CVS and 300 trained CVS colleagues in this role
Colleague discount on pet products and treatments including free consults, cost price drugs and a discount to our online pharmacy, Animed.
Access to the company share-save scheme

Interested? Please click apply now! For further details or an informal chat, please contact Emily in the recruitment team at

There are many opportunities and pathways for Nurses within our wider group! If you are looking to progress into leadership or management within a practice or perhaps something remote based, we can support you. We have recently launched "CVS Nursing Career Pathway" with the aim of demonstrating clear career progression for nurses across first opinion, referral and equine practices. You can have lifelong career here, regardless of what your current interest is! Click here to find out more: https://vimeo.com/904977057/532bcae978?share=copy

CVS is committed to being a fully inclusive place to work where all our colleagues are encouraged and supported to be themselves, where difference is celebrated and where everyone feels able to deliver their best. We are also determined to build a workforce that is more representative of our diverse communities and the people we provide our services to.

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Arbury Road Vets
32 Arbury Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK, CB4 2JE
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Salary:
Competitive salary and benefits package
Practice:
Arbury Road Vets
City:
Cambridge
Job Type:
Flexible (to suit), Full-Time, Part-Time
Employment Type:
Maternity Cover

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