Veterinary Care Assistant

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Reading
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Entry-level
CATEGORY
Healthcare
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SKILLS

Animal Care Customer Service Communication Team Collaboration Fear Free Handling Administrative Support Patient Care Clinic Operations

FULL DESCRIPTION

Veterinary Care Assistant - Woodley, Reading

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] are a family owned, independent group of busy, growing clinics providing pet health care that is second to none. Quality pet-focused healthcare career with a fun journey guaranteed!

VETERINARY CARE ASSISTANT - WOODLEY, READING

Are you passionate about caring for both people and their pets? We’re looking for an enthusiastic, positive, and proactive individual to join our fantastic team!

We are a family-owned, independent group of practices who believe that providing an exceptional client experience is just as important as providing outstanding pet healthcare.

As a Veterinary Care Assistant, you’ll play a key role in supporting our Registered Veterinary Nurses and Vets – helping to look after our in-patients and helping with the phone, interacting with people and their pets.

We are looking for someone who wants to join our modern, state-of-the-art clinic (separate dog and cat wards, and our innovative pod design in the waiting area – designed to make visits less stressful for pets and their owners).

37.5 hours per week Monday – Friday including a share of the Saturday morning rota. Experience is preferred.

Why join us?

  • A true family practice with a supportive, friendly team
  • A pet-centric Fear Free practice
  • New state of the art clinic and equipment
  • 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays (Good Friday worked but day in lieu given)
  • Day off for birthday
  • Free preventative healthcare plan for your pets plus generous discounts
  • Three days off to work for a local charity of your choice
  • Gym contribution
  • Private medical insurance

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

  • We provide a positive environment where you will be supported by vastly experienced owners that you will know and work with.
  • Being part of a fast growing and young practice is exciting. We guarantee you will enjoy the ride and have fun!
  • You will be part of a team of like-minded colleagues.
  • We are people focused, ask any of our team. The deal is that you work hard and in return we will look after you to the best of our ability.
  • We are pet centric – we are the first veterinary practice outside of north America to be Fear Free accredited. This is the standard of care our pets deserve.

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BENEFITS OF A CAREER WITH US

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Day off for birthday
  • 3 days to volunteer for local charity or good cause
  • Ad hoc CPD trips to South of France
  • Out of the hat places to North American veterinary conferences!
  • Company wide social events e.g. Christmas party
  • Team quarterly fun budget
  • Free Total Wellness Plans for your pets plus generous discounts
  • No out-of-hours
  • Internal recognition scheme
  • Family and friends discount

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For an informal chat about current and future vacancies please contact [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

FAMILY-OWNED & INDEPENDENT

Being family-owned and independent means security, trust and ensures we are aligned with our vision and mission to deliver not only our key principles, Quality, Integrity, Passion, and Growth, but also to be the kind of veterinary practice that we are proud of.

We have three generations of the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] working within our business- Tim, our Managing Director, works alongside his daughter, Annabel, and father, Craig.

Further it means that we are free to make our own decisions and are not governed by remote owners. This gives us the freedom to act in the best interests of our clinics, our team members, our clients, and most importantly, your pets.

FEAR FREE

We understand that pets are part of the family, so as standard our teams are accredited ‘Fear Free’ professionals who can prevent and alleviate potential fear and stress experienced by your pets during their visit. To achieve this, amongst many other things, our ward areas have classical music playing and softer lighting than that of clinical areas, plus stress-relieving pheromone plug ins are used throughout our wards and wider clinic.

We understand the differing needs of species and as such our cat wards have individual hideaway units so that they may feel more secure, weighing scales are covered with fake grass to be more appealing to our canine patients, and we obviously use an abundance of delicious and distracting treats to distract to make the journey as stress free as possible for all.

OUR PRINCIPLES

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TOTAL WELLNESS PLAN

Health plans are nothing new to our industry and are predominantly cost saving in nature.

Our fantastic Total Wellness Plan not only reduces cost for routine preventative products and services, but more importantly eliminates veterinary consult fees completely and introduces a yearly comprehensive physical examination, including blood and urine screening to pick up any subtle indicators of early disease.The plan exists to remove barriers to care, and help pets live longer, healthier lives.

For an informal chat about current and future vacancies please contact [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

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