ECC Veterinary Nurse

Experienced ECC Nurse | Part-time | Full-time

Ready to take your ECC nursing career to the next level?

We're on the lookout for an experienced Emergency & Critical Care nurse to join our high-performing team. Here, you'll thrive in a supportive and fun environment, with real opportunities to lead, grow, and achieve your career goals.

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About us

Peninsula Vet Emergency and Referral Hospital offers a wide range of clinical services, including 24-hour emergency care, surgery, internal medicine, and anaesthesia. We take a collaborative approach to patient care, supported by a passionate team and a positive culture that puts our patients first.

Life on the Mornington Peninsula is hard to beat — just a 60-minute drive from Melbourne, you'll enjoy all the perks of the city, balanced with a relaxed pace of life in a stunning natural setting.

About the role

This role is available on a part-time or full-time basis and involves a mixture of evenings, nights, and weekends. Leadership opportunities are available for nurses who are looking to grow and develop their careers.

As an ECC nurse, you'll play a vital role in patient outcomes, delivering around-the-clock bedside care while supporting their pet parents. Do what you do best — be the eyes, ears, and hands of our highly skilled veterinary team.

We don't just value our nurses — we showcase them on our Vet Wrap podcast and at CPD nights.

About you

We are looking for a committed and highly motivated nurse with strong clinical skills to join our busy nursing team. The position would be well suited to nurses who demonstrate the following:

• Cert 4 or higher in VN with 2-3 years in ECC or GP equivalent
• Strong teamwork skills, a can-do attitude
• Ability to work a full cohort of shifts across a 365, 7days a week, nights and days
• Good client communication skills, and a strong advocate of the human animal bond
• Enthusiasm for learning new skills, eating snacks and good vibes

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you

What we will offer you

• Work with two specialists in ECC, a residency trained registrar and a highly experienced team of ECC vets, so you know we are practicing on the cutting edge and highest quality of ECC
• Crack out your nursing skills on trauma patients, ventilator patients, critical anaesthetics and blood transfusions while working hard in a busy, constantly changing caseload
• Learn to place central lines, arterial catheters and manage chest drains, while providing comprehensive care to all your patients, big and small
• Work in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary environment with specialists in ECC, surgery, anaesthesia and internal medicine, while our in-house GP team takes care of routine care, leaving you to enjoy the intensity and fast pace of ECC
• Large number in house training opportunities and other CPD perks in the role
• Fun work environment where learning is continuously prioritised - we are a University of Melbourne (UoM) teaching site, and you will share in the development of the next generation of veterinary professionals

For more information

Visit our social pages on Facebook or LinkedIn to get a feel for who we are, and join our Vet Education Hub whereyou can access our Podcast Vet Wrap and all our educational videos for free.

How to apply

Email your resume to

Thank you,

Louise Daemen

HR Manager