Animal Care Assistant – Weekend
Location
Stoke, West Midlands
Job Type
Permanent
Salary
£13\.45ph
About the Job
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Weekend Animal Care Assistant
£13\.45ph plus benefits
About Vets Now
Vets Now is the UK’s leading provider of emergency pet care, serving over 1700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out\-of\-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. Join our clinic team in Stoke and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide.
Role and Responsibilities
As an Animal Care Assistant at Vets Now, you will play a crucial role in assisting our clinical teams with providing a comfortable and stress\-free in\-patient environment whilst negotiating busy shifts in an emergency clinic. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working under the guidance of Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons.
- Handling patients for basic procedures and assisting with running diagnostic tests.
- Assisting in setting up and clearing down theatres for surgical procedures.
- Ensuring all in\-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.
Every other weekend working Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00 and Sunday from 09:00 to 18:00
Plus, a fair share of bank holidays.
Why Join Us?
- 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Cash Health Plan provided by Simply Health
- Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
- £780 CPD allowance pro\-rata
- 10 hours paid CPD hours annually pro\-rata
- Family\-friendly policies including sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes
- UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
- Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
- Paid volunteering days
- Death in service of two times annual salary
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