Registered Veterinary Nurse

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team at Rawtenstall Vets for Pets. Whether you are a newly qualified nurse or experienced nurse, we would love to hear from you.

About Us:

Collectively, our clinical team brings over 60+ years of veterinary experience to the table, with a wide range of skills across medicine, surgery, diagnostics and patient care. Our nursing team adds a further 20+ years of combined experience, ensuring excellent standards of inpatient care, anaesthesia, and client support. Our experienced front-of-house team ties it all together — they're welcoming, efficient, and know many of our clients and their pets personally. It’s a knowledgeable, reliable, and close-knit group that thrives on teamwork.

We support each other through clinical challenges and celebrate successes together. Whether it’s sharing knowledge or enjoying a lunchtime laugh, you’ll always have someone to lean on.

At Rawtenstall Vets for Pets we handle a wide variety of cases — from routine consults and surgeries to more complex medical work-ups and soft tissue procedures. With advanced imaging including ultrasound and digital x-ray including dental x-ray, there’s plenty of opportunity to get involved in interesting and rewarding cases every day. We’re keen to support team members with interests in any field, if you’ve got a clinical passion, we’ll back you to develop it!

Our practice is in a great location, based on a busy and well-connected retail park. There’s a great selection of shops and places to grab food nearby, including M&S, Costa, Aldi, and Home Bargains. We’re just a short 5 minute drive away from Rawtenstall town centre and around 25 minutes to Manchester city centre by car, making it easy to enjoy the big city buzz as well as the remote countryside. We also have The East Lancashire steam which is a great way to explore.

About the Role:

By joining us you will have the opportunity to use your nursing skills to their full potential, admitting patients, monitoring anaesthetics, recovering, and discharging patients.

To apply you will have good general nursing experience and great customer service skills, be cheerful, down-to-earth and enthusiastic with a genuine interest in animal welfare. Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced RVN, we would love to hear from you. 

This is a Full-Time role working 30 to 40 hour per week including a share in the Saturday rota. No OOH or Sundays.

In return, we can offer you:

• Competitive salary pro rata and dependant on experience
• No OOH or overnight in patient checks
• Generous CPD (including funded Certificates)
• Social events and emphasis on wellbeing
• Contributary pension schemes
• Paid memberships (RCVS, VDS)
• Exclusive company and high street discounts and rewards

If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare and great customer service, then we would love to hear from you!

Benefits

In return, we offer such benefits as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension and holiday allowance.

Location: BB4 6HR

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!