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Overview

Veterinary Nurse - Permanent Fulltime (Burwood East)

RSPCA Victoria is a non-government, community-based charity that works to prevent cruelty to animals by actively promoting their care and protection. Our organisation’s purpose is to work with the community to achieve outstanding animal welfare through education, advocacy, and animal care and protection. RSPCA Victoria is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an environment that is underpinned by our values: respect, consideration, clarity, accountability, expertise, and collaboration.

About the role

We are currently looking for full-time nurses to join us. We are a large clinic with a rotating staff of approximately 50 nurses and 25 vets, including veterinarians with advanced education in internal medicine, orthopaedics, shelter medicine, soft tissue surgery, ophthalmology and emergency and critical care. Our facility includes five operating theatres, eight consulting rooms, four shelter hospital wards, two private patient hospital wards, a cat-specific isolation ward, digital x-ray capability as well as dental x-ray, in-house pathology capability, ultrasound capability and ECG.

This role will provide you with:

- Exposure to a wide range of routine and non-routine surgical procedures.
- Exposure to a wide case load of hospitalised patients including management of ophthalmic procedures post op, orthopaedic procedures post-op, various zoonotic and infectious disease management, exotic medicine, wound management, and medicine cases.
- Opportunity to advocate for preventative care through nurse consults providing the community with animal care information on husbandry, nutrition, parasite control and pet behaviour.
- Continual continuing education conducted in-house during rostered hours.
- Continued professional development with career progression beyond certification, including recognition and remuneration for continued professional development in special interest areas.
- Paid study leave benefits.
- Nurses come under an enterprise agreement.

Responsibilities

- Working a rotating roster with no on-call or after-hours care.
- Collaborating with vets, nurses, animal attendants, behaviour teams, customer service officers and foster coordinators to achieve the best outcomes.
- Rotating shifts across areas each day, including wards, theatre, reception/consulting, and support roles with a caseload that can extend to over 40.
- Providing high level customer service (verbal and written).
- Inpatient care: TPR, walking, feeding, cleaning and administration of prescribed medications.
- Communicating treatment plans and liaising with Foster, Adoptions, and Shelter teams.
- Wound management; IV catheter placement and management of IV fluids and CRI’s.
- Admission and discharge of hospitalised and surgery patients, triage of emergencies, and grief support.
- Surgical nursing: post-op instructions and patient recovery communication.
- Sterilization and preparation of instruments.
- In-house pathology equipment use and pathology collection (including blood collection).
- Safe animal handling.

Qualifications and experience

- Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing.
- Evidence of current tetanus vaccination required.
- Willingness to perform a National Police Check.

What we are looking for

- Well-developed veterinary nursing knowledge and skills.
- Experience in veterinary nursing with knowledge of anatomy, behaviour, disease recognition and safe handling.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with compassion for animals.
- Experience working collaboratively in a team.
- Ability and commitment to work on a rotating roster, including some weekends and public holidays.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; strong problem solving and organisational skills.

Benefits

- Work-life balance and a broad range of leave entitlements (annual leave, personal leave, additional leave, purchased leave, paid parental leave, study leave, and paid family and domestic violence leave).
- Access to Employee and Volunteer Assistance Program (EVAP).
- Discounts on products and services (including Royal Canin pet food, Hush Puppies and RSPCA Victoria retail products).
- Salary packaging and novated lease arrangements with Maxxia.

How to apply

To learn more about our organisation and this job opportunity, please visit our website at www.rspcavic.org.au and apply online via our Employment Opportunities page. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@rspcavic.org.au.

Notes: We are actively reviewing applications; please apply as soon as possible. RSPCA Victoria is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we strongly encourage people from all cultural backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Applicants can access RSPCA Victoria’s Diversity & Inclusion Policy on our website.

Job Ref: RT000631

Submitted: 17-09-2025

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