Animal Care Assistant

We are seeking a dedicated, caring, and motivated vet to fill this role, and in return we offer great support, exciting career development and a healthy work-life balance. The role will be mainly based at our Kilmarnock branch but will also involve some shifts at our Beith and Mauchline branches.

We are happy to consider flexible working options.

• Maintain high standards of inpatient care under the direction of the vet surgeon or vet nurse.
• Communicate effectively with supervising vets and nurses regarding inpatient status.
• Respond professionally in client interactions as part of reception and client-facing duties.
• Assist in setting up clinical procedures.
• Maintain cleanliness and biosecurity throughout the facility.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety regulations, including equipment care.
• Support practice initiatives and management requests.
• Assist vets and nurses in clinical and non-clinical procedures, excluding VSA schedule 3 tasks.

Our people are at the heart of everything that we do, that’s why we know that work-life balance is vital in supporting our people to be their best selves. Our flexible approach to rota patterns and working hours offers a balance that works around you and your lifestyle, no matter what stage you are in your career.

Ideally, we have up to 40 hours per week available, across 4 or 5 days with a 1:3 Saturday rota  ) and no OOH, but should you require less hours we will also consider this.

MBM Veterinary Group is a large, friendly, long-established practice, close to the beautiful Ayrshire coast with convenient road and rail links to Glasgow and central Scotland. We have practices in the towns of Kilmarnock, Mauchline, and Beith thus covering a wide area within Ayrshire. We have dedicated teams providing small animal and farm veterinary services. The area provides an excellent base for those enjoying outdoor pursuits including equine sports, water sports, cycling, hill-walking, and golf.

We have all the usual gadgets including digital and dental radiography, multiparameter anaesthetic monitoring machines, ultrasonography including colour doppler, endoscopy, ECG and electrocautery. Additionally, we run a comprehensive in-house laboratory that includes: FNA cytology, full haematology and biochemistry, as well as Idexx Catalyst for in-house cortisol, CRP, fructosamine and progesterone. We also carry out in-house urinalysis which includes dipstick, specific gravity, microscopy and urine protein:creatinine ratio.

All of this is facilitated by a daily dedicated lab nurse allowing efficient and rapid work-up of cases in-house.

We are also a Vets Now OOH host practice, meaning that patients requiring 24-hour hospitalisation can be kept in-house without the need for organising transportation of potentially sick animals or those still recovering from anaesthetic.

Working in our small animal team across the three branches we are currently a team of 20 full and part-time Veterinary Surgeons, including a cardiology certificate holder and two others studying certificates in surgery and in medicine, as well as plenty of proud general practitioners.

We have 16 full and part-time Registered Veterinary Nurses, 4 Animal Nursing Assistants, and 8 Reception team members.

We care deeply about the quality of care and welfare of our patients, and pride ourselves in being able to offer a wide range of medical and surgical services “in-house”, while maintaining excellent relationships with referral partners for those trickier cases.

• 6.6
  
  Weeks annual leave
• Additional annual leave for your birthday which will be added to your holiday allowance
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/ paternity/ adoption/ shared parental and surrogacy pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
• Non-accidental injury support
• Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy
• Pawsome Benefits - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100's of retailers
• Discounted staff pet care

21 Hill Street, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock, KA3 1HF
, United Kingdom