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About the Role
As a Veterinary Care Assistant, you'll play a vital role in supporting our clinical team by assisting with patient care, maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the practice, preparing equipment and consulting rooms, supporting with inpatient care, and ensuring clients and their pets receive a warm and professional experience from the moment they arrive.
Responsibilities
- Assisting with patient care
- Maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the practice
- Preparing equipment and consulting rooms
- Supporting with inpatient care
- Ensuring clients and their pets receive a warm and professional experience
Requirements
- Previous experience working in a veterinary practice, ideally as a Veterinary Care Assistant
- Passionate about animal welfare and delivering outstanding patient care
- Enjoys working in a busy first-opinion practice
- Excellent communication and client care skills
- Works well as part of a team while also being able to use their own initiative
- Organised, proactive and keen to learn
- Takes pride in maintaining a clean, safe and welcoming practice environment
- Excited by the opportunity to help shape and grow a new practice and become an integral member of our close-knit team
Skills
- Animal welfare
- Patient care
- Communication
- Client care
- Teamwork
- Initiative
- Organization
- Proactiveness
- Learning agility
Location
- Whetstone, North London
- London Borough of Barnet
- N20 9BS
Work Type
- Full-time
- 40 hours per week
Salary/Compensations
- Salary in line with National Minimum Wage
Benefits
- Contributory pension scheme
- Ongoing training and career development opportunities
- Access to wellbeing, pastoral support and Employee Assistance Programmes
- Cycle to Work scheme
- 20% colleague discount at Vets for Pets, Pets at Home and Groom Room
- Access to Retail Trust, Port of Call and Mental Health First Aid support
About the Company
- Our purpose-built practice has been designed to provide outstanding clinical care while creating an enjoyable working environment for the whole team.
- Facilities include: Digital radiography, Dedicated operating theatre, Separate dog, cat and isolation wards, Spacious colleague break room.
- You'll be joining a friendly and supportive team where your contribution is valued, and you'll have opportunities to develop your skills while helping to deliver exceptional standards of patient and client care.
- Located in the London Borough of Barnet, Whetstone offers the perfect combination of suburban living and city convenience. With excellent transport links into Central London, easy access to the A1 and M25, plus an excellent selection of cafés, restaurants, shops and green spaces, it's a fantastic place to live and work.
Equal Opportunity
- We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. 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!