Veterinary Care Assistant Jobs

Please see below our latest Veterinary Care Assistant vacancies, or get in touch to help you find your next dream role in one of our auxiliary vet nurse jobs

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Whether you have a specific role you are interested in or would like us to connect you with the right practices we are here to help.

Veterinary Care
Assistant Jobs

Veterinary Care Assistant

Location Cardiff - Wales

Responsibilities

As a Veterinary Care Assistant, you’ll need to:

Exercising, grooming and feeding hospitalised animals (inpatients)
Weighing, taking animals temperatures
Monitoring and providing supportive care to inpatients
Preparing theatre and relevant equipment
Cleaning and preparing accommodation for animals
Restraining animals for treatment
Record keeping
Providing care before and after surgery

Skills

As a Veterinary Care Assistant, you are expected to have:

Basic Maths and English skills
Caring manner
Good at communicating with the practice and customers
IT literate
Good problem solver
Good team player
Positive attitude at all times

Vetfinders
Charter

We have a thorough 15 point recruitment process which covers every aspect of your requirements.
We work with most of the large vet groups and many independent practices so have access to a huge number of roles. With your authorisation we can also market your CV (confidentially) to specific practices as many roles aren’t advertised. If that dream role exists we will find it. There is no need to send your CV anywhere else again!
We are 100% transparent throughout the whole recruitment process and will not send your CV to a practice without authorisation from you. Guaranteed!
Career development. We can develop a career plan for you and review this every few months to make sure you are on track.
We employ an in house career advisor to help with any career advice.
We offer psychometric profiling for all candidates if required. You learn a lot about yourself and it recommends areas for personal growth and development.
Every successful candidate we register we donate £10 to one of our 4 charities.
When we place a candidate a percentage of that fee will go to one of 4 charities we have chosen to work with. You will choose where this money goes and receive regular updates.
Our business is not just transactional and one dimensional, we want to build long term relationship’s with candidates and help you thought out your career.
One of our goals is to build a community of loyal Vets and Nurses who stay with VetFinders and use our services throughout their career.