Lead Veterinary Nurse
Hampshire, South East, England
£30000 - £33000 per annum
Expiry date:27 Aug 2025
Start date:29 May 2025
Veterinary Nurse(RiVN)
Lead Veterinary Nurse – A Rare Balance of Clinical Work and Leadership
📍 Supportive team | Beautiful setting | £30,000 – £33,000 DOE | 40-hour week | 1:7 Saturdays
Are you a dedicated and experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse looking for that next step in your career? Do you love clinical work but feel ready to take on a leadership role where you can help shape the team and make a meaningful impact? If so, this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.
We’re currently looking for a Lead Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly and talented team. This is a dual role that blends clinical excellence (around 60%) with leadership and management responsibilities (around 40%), offering a rare and rewarding balance that allows you to keep your hands in nursing while stepping into a truly influential position.
🩺 What You’ll Be Doing – Clinical Leadership at Its Best
You’ll be working alongside a skilled and supportive team of around 6 nurses and 4 vets each day in a well-equipped, modern practice with a welcoming atmosphere. Your clinical time will be spent doing what you love — providing high-quality nursing care, supporting consults and procedures, and mentoring your team through example.
Whether it’s inpatient care, anaesthesia monitoring, surgical prep, or assisting in consults, you’ll be fully involved on the floor, playing an essential role in keeping the day running smoothly and ensuring the highest standards of care are met across the board.
🧠 Leadership and Management – Be the Driving Force Behind the Team
Outside of your clinical work, you’ll be an integral part of the leadership team, responsible for helping to guide, support, and develop our nursing staff. This part of your role will include:
🌿 What You’ll Bring to the Role We’re looking for someone with strong clinical skills and the confidence to lead, but just as importantly, someone with warmth, empathy, and a real interest in supporting others. You’ll thrive in a role that mixes variety with responsibility and enjoy working collaboratively with both the nursing and veterinary teams.
Key qualities we’re looking for:
🐾 Ready to Lead With Heart? This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven RVN who wants to combine their clinical passion with meaningful leadership. Join us and help shape the future of a team that values kindness, clinical excellence, and collaboration.
👉 Apply today – we can’t wait to meet you!
Health Recruit Network are a trusted supplier of NHS and Private healthcare services. We supply work to Registered General Nurses (RGN), Mental Health Nurses (RMN), Learning Disabilities Nurse (RNLD) and Healthcare Assistants (HCA). We are one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the UK and supply Nationwide. Health Recruit Network are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
📍 Supportive team | Beautiful setting | £30,000 – £33,000 DOE | 40-hour week | 1:7 Saturdays
Are you a dedicated and experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse looking for that next step in your career? Do you love clinical work but feel ready to take on a leadership role where you can help shape the team and make a meaningful impact? If so, this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.
We’re currently looking for a Lead Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly and talented team. This is a dual role that blends clinical excellence (around 60%) with leadership and management responsibilities (around 40%), offering a rare and rewarding balance that allows you to keep your hands in nursing while stepping into a truly influential position.
🩺 What You’ll Be Doing – Clinical Leadership at Its Best
You’ll be working alongside a skilled and supportive team of around 6 nurses and 4 vets each day in a well-equipped, modern practice with a welcoming atmosphere. Your clinical time will be spent doing what you love — providing high-quality nursing care, supporting consults and procedures, and mentoring your team through example.
Whether it’s inpatient care, anaesthesia monitoring, surgical prep, or assisting in consults, you’ll be fully involved on the floor, playing an essential role in keeping the day running smoothly and ensuring the highest standards of care are met across the board.
🧠 Leadership and Management – Be the Driving Force Behind the Team
Outside of your clinical work, you’ll be an integral part of the leadership team, responsible for helping to guide, support, and develop our nursing staff. This part of your role will include:
- Holding regular 1:1s and reviews with nursing staff, providing clear feedback, support, and personal development plans
- People management – supporting performance, morale, team wellbeing, and professional growth
- Strategic planning – contributing ideas and helping to implement initiatives to improve patient care, client experience, and team efficiency
- Resource and floor management – ensuring day-to-day operations run smoothly, equipment is available and functional, and the team is working cohesively
- A touch of diary and rota planning, collaborating with leadership to ensure optimal staffing and organisation
🌿 What You’ll Bring to the Role We’re looking for someone with strong clinical skills and the confidence to lead, but just as importantly, someone with warmth, empathy, and a real interest in supporting others. You’ll thrive in a role that mixes variety with responsibility and enjoy working collaboratively with both the nursing and veterinary teams.
Key qualities we’re looking for:
- Qualified and experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN)
- A team player who enjoys mentoring and bringing out the best in others
- Organised, proactive, and calm under pressure
- Someone with a growth mindset and a passion for continuously improving how we work
- Salary: £30,000 – £33,000, depending on experience
- 40-hour full-time position, with flexibility and supportive management
- Only 1 in 7 Saturdays, allowing for a healthy work-life balance
- The chance to be part of a close-knit, highly skilled team that truly enjoys working together
- Ongoing opportunities for leadership development, CPD, and progression within the practice
🐾 Ready to Lead With Heart? This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven RVN who wants to combine their clinical passion with meaningful leadership. Join us and help shape the future of a team that values kindness, clinical excellence, and collaboration.
👉 Apply today – we can’t wait to meet you!
Health Recruit Network are a trusted supplier of NHS and Private healthcare services. We supply work to Registered General Nurses (RGN), Mental Health Nurses (RMN), Learning Disabilities Nurse (RNLD) and Healthcare Assistants (HCA). We are one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the UK and supply Nationwide. Health Recruit Network are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
