The Vacancy
Veterinary Nurse - Out of hours, Team Leader
Salary: Up to £40,000 DOE plus 10% shift allowance
Join our Team as a dynamic Team Leader
We are looking for an experienced veterinary nurse to join our state-of-the-art 24/7 hospital, Vets Now, Glasgow. Currently, our hospital offers ECC, Orthopaedic, Soft tissue, Internal medicine, and referral services.
You will be an experienced vet nurse, who will assist our head nurse in the smooth running of our Out of Hours team. As a team leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of nurses and animal care assistants. This role requires great organisational skills, an eye for detail, and the ability to lead, motivate and develop a team.
You will be required to provide a high standard of inpatient care for a wide variety of cases. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Specialist and AP vets in a multi discipline environment.
Working pattern
5 nights on, 5 nights off from 18:00 to 05:00 (Monday to Thursday) 18:00 to 06:00 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
Your health and wellbeing
* Private medical insurance
* Membership of employee wellbeing programme
* Enhanced sick pay
* Enhanced maternity policy including 6 months full pay
* Family-friendly policies including paternity and adoption pay schemes
Your work life balance
* 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
* Your birthday as a paid day off
* Paid volunteering days
Your development
* £1125 CPD allowance plus 20 paid hours pro rata
* ECC certificate support - financial and paid study leave
Your professional memberships
* RCVS fees
* VDS cover
Your additional benefits
* Vets Now For You - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100's of retailers
* UK Standard Pension contributions - 5% Employee/3% Employer
* Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
* Death in service of two times annual salary
If you would like to discuss this role in more detail or to apply, please contact Julia at or call
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.
The Company
As the UK's 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, we're 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 they've got the experts on board. And so do we.