Registered Veterinary Nurse

About the Role

Wicstun Vets is seeking a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join their friendly, supportive team in Market Weighton. You'll work 40 hours per week over 5 days alongside a Clinical Nursing Manager, veterinary surgeons, and wider practice team. This role includes a shared out-of-hours nursing rota and offers genuine opportunities to mentor junior nurses and animal care assistants, helping create a positive working environment where everyone can develop their skills.

You'll be at the heart of patient care, delivering outstanding nursing across a wide range of cases whilst maintaining the high clinical standards this practice is known for. This is an ideal opportunity for an RVN who values teamwork, professional development, and making a real difference to animal welfare.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver outstanding nursing care to a wide range of patients
• Assist veterinary surgeons with consultations, procedures, and surgeries
• Provide pre-operative, post-operative, and inpatient nursing care for hospitalised patients
• Administer medications, treatments, fluid therapy, dressings, and nursing procedures in line with professional guidelines
• Maintain accurate and detailed clinical records, including anaesthetic and hospitalisation documentation
• Support patient admissions and discharges, ensuring clients receive clear communication and excellent service
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness, infection control, and equipment maintenance throughout the practice
• Assist with stock management and replenishment
• Support reception when required, including updating clients on their pets' progress
• Train and mentor student nurses and animal care assistants
• Participate in an agreed shared out-of-hours nursing rota
• Contribute to practice events, client education, and occasional marketing initiatives

Requirements

• Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) qualification
• Passionate about delivering exceptional patient and client care
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Proactive, adaptable, and willing to support colleagues across all practice areas
• Committed to maintaining high clinical standards
• Committed to continuing professional development and lifelong learning
• Enjoys mentoring and supporting less experienced team members

Benefits

• Salary from £27,000 depending on experience
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and birthday leave
• RCVS and VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programme and access to the MARS academy
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Wellness programme including employee assistance, eyecare vouchers, free annual flu jab, and cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme

About the Practice

Wicstun Vets is part of Linnaeus, a forward-thinking partnership of highly-respected primary care and referral veterinary practices across the UK and Ireland. Linnaeus carefully selects practices that meet the highest levels of patient care and clinical excellence. The group comprises some of the best clinicians in the profession, working across small animal, farm, and equine veterinary medicine.

Linnaeus is built on two core principles: a commitment to excellence in everything they do, and a passion for their purpose, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. The practice provides a growing community of like-minded veterinary professionals who are passionate about their work and dedicated to delivering outstanding patient and client care.