Veterinary Care Assistant

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate Veterinary Care Assistant to join our Chelmsford Vets for Pets.

Our practice is purpose built to industry leading standards and has state of the art equipment including digital X-ray, dental radiography, ultrasound and in-house laboratory facilities.

You will assist all colleagues with non-clinical duties to support smooth running of the practice and provide the best standard of patient care.

This a great opportunity for someone who is looking to progress into a student nurse role in the future.

This is a Full Time role working 40 hours across 4 or 5 days a week. This role will include working a mix of early and late shifts (between 8am and 7.30pm) as well as 1 in 4 weekends.  

If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare, exceptional customer service and would like to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.

The attributes required

• You are a friendly and welcoming face for the client and their pets when they arrive at the practice.   
• You are able to provide excellent customer service by keeping yourself fully up-to-speed with the practice services and any additional services available. 
• You are calm, attentive, hardworking and always focus on the clients’ needs.
• You will bring enthusiasm and drive to your role, working well as part of the team but also on individual tasks where appropriate.  Your passion for service is matched with your love of pets.
• You can deal with everything that is thrown at you, in a fast-paced environment - from comforting a client who has had some bad news about their pet or sharing in the joy of a new puppy’s first visit to the vet.  
• You are happy with a wide variety of tasks, many of which will involve cleaning and less glamourous aspects of working with pets.

In short, you like to be busy, enjoy helping people and their pets and always endeavour to make a difference.

Benefits
In return, we offer such benefits as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension and holiday allowance. The salary for this role is national minimum wage. 

We want our colleagues to be as diverse as our clients. Our teams are inclusive and celebrate difference so if you meet our role requirements, we’d love to hear from you.

Location: Vets4Pets Chelmsford, CM2 6XE

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!