Join a well-equipped, progressive practice where your RVN role spans multiple sites, a 4-day week and a structured weekend rota. Axe Valley Vets also offers a broad clinical set-up, including endoscopy, ultrasonography, digital radiography and an in-house laboratory.
Axe Valley Vets is looking for an enthusiastic, team-oriented Registered Veterinary Nurse to join the practice on a part-time basis, with both part-time and full-time options available. The role covers multiple sites and offers either 32 hours a week or up to 40 hours, worked as 8-hour days across 4 days per week, with shifts running from 7 am to 7 pm and a 1-hour unpaid lunch break.
You’ll be part of a friendly, supportive and collaborative team in rural Somerset, with scenic walks in Blackford and easy access to the coast at Weston. The role also includes an attractive weekend rota of 1 in 9 at the Blackford branch, with Saturday and Sunday shifts both continuing on call until 7 pm. Weekend shifts are paid on top of the normal salary, and well-behaved dogs are welcome at work too.
The practice is well equipped and progressive, with diagnostic and clinical facilities that include endoscopy, ultrasonography, digital radiography including dental, and an in-house laboratory.
Axe Valley Veterinary Practice was founded in the Wedmore area in the 1950s and moved to its present location in Blackford in the 1970s. The practice serves a wide area of Somerset, with branch surgeries at Cheddar, Wells, Woolavington and Bleadon.
The team includes 10 Veterinary Surgeons, including certificate holders in medicine, 9 Registered Veterinary Nurses, 1 Student Veterinary Nurse, 1 Animal Nursing Assistant and 18 support staff. The practice provides surgical and imaging facilities, complementary medicine and a full out-of-hours service covered by its own veterinary surgeons. It treats domestic species, including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and more exotic species.
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