University of Glasgow Pet Practice

28/08/2025

🐾 We're Hiring: Veterinary Nurse – Pet Practice 🐾
📍 University of Glasgow
💼 Full-time | Permanent
💰 Salary: £27,319–£31,236 + 6% weekend shift allowance

Join one of the world’s top universities and be part of a passionate team delivering exceptional care to our furry patients! We're looking for a qualified, RCVS-Registered Veterinary Nurse to provide expert nursing care and support in a busy hospital environment.

✨ Why Join Us?
✔ 35-hour week (Mon–Fri + some Sat mornings)
✔ 41 days leave (incl. public holidays)
✔ CPD allowance & subsidised further education
✔ 20% discount on vet services
✔ Competitive pension & wellbeing support
✔ Fantastic team & working environment

📅 Apply now and become a world changer in animal care!
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Job PurposeProvide a focus between clients, veterinary surgeons, nursing staff and students. Carry out nursing duties to the highest standard. Main Duties a...

21/08/2025

Did you know the Pet Plan Awards 2025 are open nominations? 🏆

The Pet Plan awards recognise and celebrate teams and individuals within the veterinary sector who inspire their clients and colleagues with their commitment and passion.

Do you know a vet practice or veterinary team member who goes above and beyond, inspires clients and colleagues or shows exceptional level of care and compassion? Why not say ‘thank you’ and nominate them for a 2025 Petplan Veterinary Awards via the link below 👇

The Petplan Vet Awards are in their 26th year, recognising and celebrating teams and individuals within the vet sector who inspire their clients and colleagues with their commitment and passion.

19/08/2025

Waving off another 8 final year students after a great 2 weeks with us!

Whilst the students spend time with us to expose them to what life in general practice is like and to develop their hands-on skills, there’s a whole other set of qualities that we try to work on while they are with us. This includes the mindset of being a “life-long learner”, creating their own learning opportunities and staying curious.
Incidentally, these are things that both the University of Glasgow and our veterinary licensing body both recognise as essential attributes.

The last few weeks have unfortunately been filled with cancelled procedures and people not turning up for their appointments, and it’s meant that our lovely students have had less patients to see as a result.

What made us really proud was that this group didn’t let this stop their learning - they were spending time researching the cases they did see, asking questions, looking through lab results, thinking about how they would have managed that patient they didn’t end up seeing. They were creating their own learning opportunities and it was wonderful to see them showing so many of the qualities we want them to take into their lives as qualified vets from the University of Glasgow!

Best of luck to this fabulous group with the rest of final year!

UofG School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

06/08/2025

The Small Animal Hospital, University of Glasgow is hiring nursing staff, click the link for more details
UofG School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

04/08/2025

Where is the time going.....another Pet Practice rotation complete. ✅️ We hope you and your pets enjoyed meeting these wonderful students over the last couple of weeks.

During their time with us, we ask the students to focus on their achievements and what has gone well for them and share with the team and each other. 🏅

A few highlights from their 'Wins of the Week'....'finding the uterus during a bitch spay', 'taking a blood sample from a kitten', 'placing an iv catheter in a dachshund', 'identifying a heart murmur', 'perfect kc vaccination administration', 'completing intradermal sutures', gowning and gloving on crutches'. 😁

Good luck with the rest of final year, we hope that you continue smashing those wins!! 🏆🐾🩺

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18/07/2025

We will be closed on Monday for the Bank Holiday 🐾 We hope all our clients and pets have a lovely restful long weekend ❤️ we will re-open as normal on Tuesday 🩺

18/07/2025

Over the last fortnight, we’ve had 5 fresh faces with us at the Pet Practice! You might have met them in the consulting room or spoken to them on the phone if you’ve been in with your pets 🐾

In the 2 weeks they spend with us, we aim to give them a feel for what small animal general practice is really like - it can be hectic, it can be stressful, it can be rewarding. We have to be the dentists and anaesthetists and clinical pathologists and phlebotomist and dermatologist all rolled into one. And… Our patients don’t always read the textbook 😅

This wonderful group have had some challenges thrown at them this week - some of them medical, some of them IT-related! But they’ve taken it all in their strides and shown us what adaptable, capable professionals they are 🩺

Best of luck to this 5 with the rest of final year and (hopefully) your long and fulfilling veterinary careers 🎓

04/07/2025

Another 2 weeks has flown by and we’re waving off another group of final year students.

This bunch have been our biggest group so far, but they’ve taken every learning opportunity offered to them and (we hope!) learned lots.

Before they arrive at the Pet Practice, we ask them to give us 3 goals for them to accomplish whilst they are here. This week it ranged from confidently identifying heart murmurs and interpreting lab results, to performing surgeries. There is often a real variety of areas students pick, but it reflects the varied cases that they will be expected to see as a general practitioner.

It’s great for us (and them!) to see them ticking off these goals as the weeks progress and they start to take on more of a leading role with their consults and surgeries - developing into the professionals they will be in 12 short months!

Huge thanks to this group for really embedding themselves in the team, taking the initiative and picking up slack when things were busy, and putting a smile on our faces with their good sense of humour.

20/06/2025

Helping to develop our vet students confidence with practical skills is an integral part of the Pet Practice rotation 🩺

Alongside the practical aspect, we also work to develop other qualities which are vital to being a successful veterinary surgeon: adaptability when working with a new team; supporting each other’s learning; enthusiasm and willingness to learn; communication skills and collaboration on cases and projects

This group have absolutely showcased these qualities and we’ve had such a great fortnight with them!

We hope the skills they’ve honed while they were here will benefit them greatly when they graduate 🧑‍🎓