Weekend Registered Veterinary Nurse

About the Role

This Weekend Veterinary Nurse role is based at Jacqui Paterson Veterinary Surgery in Stockton-On-Tees and offers the chance to build ECC experience across a defined weekend rota. The pattern runs over four weeks, with Week 1 off, Week 2 on Saturday 12:00 to 19:30 and Sunday 08:00 to 19:30, Week 3 off, and Week 4 on Saturday 12:00 to 19:00 and Sunday 09:00 to 18:00, plus a fair share of bank holidays.

Vets Now positions this role as a way to deepen your ECC knowledge while fitting work around family commitments or a second income. You will be part of a team focused on emergency pet care, with clinical work spanning triage, surgery, anaesthesia and in-patient care.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide first aid advice over the phone and in clinic.
• Support critical care through monitoring major body systems and in-patient trends.
• Spot changes quickly and respond to evolving patient needs.
• Carry out physiotherapy, pain assessment, wound care and dressing care.
• Perform basic diagnostic procedures in a sole charge capacity.

Requirements

• RCVS registered for a minimum of six months.
• Confidence in a busy ECC setting is advantageous.
• A motivated approach to maintaining clinic standards.
• A caring attitude towards clients and their pets.

Benefits

• Up to £17 per hour, dependent on experience.
• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced sick pay and maternity pay.
• 7 weeks pro rata annual leave.
• Your birthday as a paid day off.
• £1,125 CPD allowance plus 20 paid hours pro rata.
• RCVS fees paid.
• Support towards the ECC certificate.
• Reward Gateway discounts and cashback with hundreds of retailers.
• UK Standard Pension contributions at 5% employee and 3% employer.
• Up to 50% discounted staff pet care.
• Death in service cover at two times annual salary.

About the Practice

Vets Now is the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care, supporting more than 1,700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out-of-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals.

The wider Vets Now culture is built around close-knit teams, shared responsibility and structured rotas, with a focus on careers in ECC that are both rewarding and sustainable.