Veterinary Kennel Hand

Have you always wanted to work in a Veterinary clinic?

We are looking for our next kennel hand and require an enthusiastic, motivated, and compassionate individual who has genuine passion in providing care for patients in our hospital.

Voo Vets is a family business that believes truly best pet healthcare is achieved by combining general, specialist and emergency care. There are 6 branch sites across London and Surrey and a central 24-hour veterinary hospital located in Surbiton, Surrey.We have excellent facilities and provide the absolute best in pet healthcare.

You may have worked with animals and/or customer facing roles, full training is provided so this is not mandatory.

If you would love to work with people and pets and want to make a real difference to their lives then this is a fantastic opportunity for you.

The exciting part.

You would work with the veterinary team performing a range of duties, caring for patients who are hospitalised.

Voo is supportive and collaborative workplace so you will start learning and contributing from the start.

Dependant on progress and GCSE grades After 12-24 months you would have the option to be enrolled on a placement as a student veterinary nurse where you would train at the CAW college. This is fully funded by Voo and would lead to RCVS Registered VeterinaryNurse Title (Level 3 Diploma).

You would attend classroom teaching at college one day per week and continue to work with us the remaining time.

This is a full-time role (40 hours a week, with weekends).

As a Kennel hand, you would be responsible for:

- Pet handling for examinations and procedures
- Cleaning, sterilisation and disinfection
- Restocking
- Equipment care and maintenance.
- In-house laboratory testing (e.g. blood testing)
- Setting up for procedures
- Assisting the veterinary and nursing team
- Cleaning/bathing pets
- Walking pets
- Feeding pets
- providing enrichment for pets
- Grooming inpatients
- giving oral medication under supervision
- laundry for the inpatients

Why work for Voo?

1) Supportive training environment

2) Fully funded training course

3) Great team spirit and regular team meet-ups.

4) Well maintained workplaces with great facilities for pets and people

5) Great long-term career progression and future salary prospects

6)There is no limit on how many hugs you can give to the pets we see

7) Generous and growing benefit package

8) Opportunity to train to become a Registered Veterinary Nurse

Does this sound like you?
- You enjoy working with animals and interacting with people too.
- You are hard-working, positive, and motivated to learn and develop your skills.
- You have practical skills and enjoy hands-on roles.
- You are a quick learner and learn best by being shown tasks (on the job learning)
- You have experience working with animals or experience in a practical or medical role.
- You enjoy working in a team, helping others.
- You are a positive and self-motivated to work independently completing tasks within time frames.
- You a friendly, approachable person who likes interacting and helping people too.