Weekend Animal Care Assistant £12.60ph plus benefits About Vets Now Vets Now is the UKs leading provider of emergency pet care, serving over 1700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out-of-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. Join our clinic team in Belfast and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide. Role and Responsibilities As an Animal Care Assistant at Vets Now, you will play a crucial role in assisting our clinical teams with providing a comfortable and stress-free in-patient environment whilst negotiating busy shifts in an emergency clinic. Your responsibilities will include: Working under the guidance of Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons. Handling patients for basic procedures and assisting with running diagnostic tests. Assisting in setting up and clearing down theatres for surgical procedures. Ensuring all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to. Working pattern 1:4 weekends working Saturday and Sunday from 21:00 to 09:00 Plus, a fair share of bank holidays. Why Join Us? 7 weeks pro rata annual leave Your birthday as a paid day off Cash Health Plan provided by Simply Health Vets Now For You reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100s of retailers £780 CPD allowance pro-rata 10 hours paid CPD hours annually pro-rata Family-friendly policies including sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes UK Standard Pension contributions 5% Employee/3% Employer Up to 50% discounted staff pet care Paid volunteering days Death in service of two times annual salary We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. As the UKs leading pet emergency service, we have a route to an exciting career in emergency and critical care for veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses, no matter where you are in your career. Vets Now was founded by Richard Dixon, a veterinary surgeon who understood the pressures of being on-call which also trying to maintain a good quality of life. Today, almost two decades since Richard did his first out-of-hours shift, were still just as passionate about emergency and critical care and our clinics are all managed by people who have worked as frontline vets or vet nurses. In an emergency, pet owners want to know theyve got the experts on board. And so do we.