Animal Care Assistant

5 days ago


Dundee, United Kingdom Vets Now Full time

**Animal Care Assistant - Evenings and Weekends**

**£12ph plus benefits**

**Join the Team at Vets Now - Providing Exceptional Emergency Pet Care**

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 Dundee and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide.

**Key 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.

**Rota Pattern**

You will work alternate weeks:
Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 18:30 to 23:30 and Saturday from 15:00 to 22:00

Week 2: Off

Plus, a fair share of bank holidays.

**What we offer**
- 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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