• BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing

• Level 2 Certificate Veterinary Receptionist

Where could your career take you?

Veterinary nursing offers an excellent professional pathway into management or further specialisation. The opportunities are varied and exciting, particularly if you enjoy biology and other sciences.

You could join a practice which delivers routine or emergency healthcare, a referral practice specialising in orthopaedics, oncology or ophthalmology or even work in a multi-million pound teaching hospital at the forefront of animal science, clinical procedures and genetics.

Here are just some of the choices waiting for you:

• Veterinary nurse
• Practice manager
• Head nurse
• Nursing team leader
• Clinical coach
• Anaesthetist
• Specialist veterinary nurse
• Nursing assistant
• Animal welfare and rescue centre manager
• Animal behaviourist
• Animal rehabilitator
• Boarding kennels / catteries / livery stables manager
• Pet store advisor
• Grooming parlour owner
• Pharmaceuticals rep
• Nutritionist
• Researcher
• Lecturer
• Member of the armed forces

Where you’ll be studying

You’ll be based at our newly developed dedicated veterinary nursing department with specialist practical study areas including clinical skills suite, diagnostic imaging suite and modern laboratories. Working with our industry-standard anaesthetic, radiography and theatre equipment, as well as ultrasound imaging, endoscopy and prep facilities, you’ll gain a variety of practical skills, especially as the rooms reflect real veterinary practice.

You’ll also have access to our Animal Centre with its licensed zoo collection of exotic, park and companion animals. We have over 1,000 animals in our zoo including a tapir, meerkats, cotton- top tamarins, Eurasian short clawed otters, birds of prey and a wide range of reptiles, amphibians and fish. You could be invited to observe interesting clinical cases involving exotic animals.

Our popular canine department houses a new block of hospital kennels along with day boarding kennels for the dogs of staff members, some of which are used for student training.

Your placement

To become a registered veterinary nurse you need to find a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons approved practice which will support you through your training. Most registered training practices have a clinical coach who will help you at your workplace and you will also be visited regularly by our own veterinary nursing training practice liaison assessor.