Senior Nurse Vacancy - Clinical Area Lead, Pennard Vets, Kent

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Nurse to step into a Clinical Area Lead role in our hybrid hospital in Sevenoaks. You’ll own a clinical specialty such as consults, dentistry, feline medicine – whatever fits your strengths – and have a genuine seat at the table when we’re shaping how things work. It’s a professional home for someone with leadership ambitions and the clinical chops to back them up.

What you’ll be up to

• Own your clinical specialty and leadership – set the standards, drive improvements, and make it yours
• Mentor and develop the nurses
• Bridge referral-level thinking and first opinion practice (no need to ace both, but absolutely necessary to be open to different views)
• Contribute to strategic conversations alongside the Hospital Director and Practice Manager
• Be an ambassador for change and protect what’s working – explain the why and bring people with you

What we bring to the table

• A genuine professional home – a place to settle, lead, and build something you’re proud of
• Permission to change things – if it’s a good idea, let’s make a plan
• Real investment in your CPD and leadership development – this is a stepping stone, not a ceiling
• Referral-level work on your doorstep
• 4-day working week, with 5 weeks’ holiday plus bank holidays (rising by an extra week after 5 years), and your birthday off if you’re rota’d to work
• Unlimited CPD (subject to Director approval) and your professional fees covered – RCVS, VDS, the lot
• Medicash health cash plan covering you and your family for things like dental and optical bills (after probation)
• Pension scheme (after 6 months) and Group Life Assurance worth 4× your annual salary, including access to specialist bereavement counselling
• Proper wellbeing support – Employee Assistance Programme, trained Mental Health First Aiders on site, and free access to Vetlife
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay (after 2 years’ service)
• Optional staff Pet Health Care Scheme (£11/month for cats, £11.50/month for dogs)
• Refer-a-friend bonus if you bring someone great with you

You’ll fit right in if you…

• Are an experienced RVN with leadership ambitions and the clinical credibility to back them up
• Lead with kindness, clarity, and a little humour – and stay steady when things get busy
• Genuinely enjoy developing other people and watching them outgrow you
• Thrive in “we’ve always done it that way” situations – you don’t bulldoze, but you don’t roll over either
• Aren’t afraid of new tech, and like a good process redesign when it’s needed