Vet Nurses / Technicians / Veterinary Support staff
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Endsmeet Animal Hospital, Devonshire Parish, Bermuda (posted 4th September)
168 Middle Road, Devonshire, Bermuda FL02
Tel: (441) 236-3292
Endsmeet Animal Hospital is seeking One Qualified Veterinary Technician to join our six vet small animal practice in BERMUDA.
Veterinary Technician Diploma (RVT, RVN, CVT) required. Candidate must have a minimum of three years experience in small animal care administering and monitoring injectable and gas anaesthesia, performing laboratory work, assisting during surgery and advanced inpatient care.
Our practice has the latest in lab machines and equipment, digital x-ray (dental as well) and anaesthesia administration & monitoring.
Please click here to see a photo!
Resume and references required.
To apply send an email to: The Manager at manager@endsmeet.bm
See endsmeet.bm, 
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Mayreau Animal Welfare, West of the Tobago Keys, St Vincent & The Grenadines (posted 19th August) Volunteer Vet Nurse Manager
Urgently Seeking a Volunteer Vet Nurse Manager
Vet Nurse Manager required to ensure high standards of animal welfare, provide effective volunteer management and manage the smooth running of our small welfare organisation.
Key Responsibilities: -
- oversee and coordinate daily activities
- ensure compliance with our health and safety guidelines
- ensure proper clinical records are kept
- oversee property maintenance
- provide regular updates to the founders of MAW
Qualifications: -
- Certified Veterinary Nurse or equivalent qualification
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Passion for animal welfare and commitment to the mission of Mayreau Animal Welfare
- Ability to live and work on a small island with limited amenities
Working Conditions: -
- We seek committed, fit, easy-going volunteers, who are diplomatic, outgoing, resilient, OK with the heat and content with simple living
- Mayreau is a hilly island and volunteers need to be reasonably fit. There is a small clinic on Mayreau, which is usually staffed by a Nurse, with a doctor visiting the island once a month. In case of emergencies, you would need to travel to neighbouring Union Island (a 20 minute speedboat ride away).
For more information, please contact Gill by email fitzgerald201@btinternet.com or Whats App: +44 77591 46327
What we can offer:
We offer free accommodation in a characterful wooden house with beautiful seaviews, and a stipend/living allowance. We also offer a contribution towards airfare, with the level of assistance to be agreed, depending upon the length of the Vet Nurse Manager's commitment.
We are keen to make this a mutually rewarding and sustainable opportunity for the right contact.
Please click here to see photos!
See our website: www.mayreau-animal-welfare.org
The Veterinary Clinic & Specialty Boarding, Savannah, Grand Cayman (posted 19th August) Head Nurse
Rhondalf Services Ltd T/A The Veterinary Clinic & Specialty Boarding invites applications from suitably qualified persons for a Full-time position of a Head Registered Veterinary Nurse or a currently Senior Registered Veterinary Nurse wanting to progress into a head nurse role in a Small Animal Clinic located in the Cayman Islands.
The Head Registered Veterinary Nurse will be responsible for:
- Assisting the doctors with the organization and management of the day to day, as well as long-term health care and disease prevention in a variety of small animal patients; and securing the welfare of pet boarding animals.
- He/she will supervise and train a team of veterinary assistants and other lay staff to increase competencies among staff to ensure that the best quality patient and boarding services are delivered.
- Will assist with management activities including that of Human Resources, inventory and procurement of goods and services to secure the most efficient and effective operation of the facility.
- Will build strong and lasting relationships with clients and their pets.
Qualifications
- Must possess a Bachelors or an Associate degree in Veterinary Nursing or Equivalent and at least 7 years of Clinical practice experience in one or more accredited full-service Veterinary Hospital(s) and must have a minimum of two years of Leadership/ Management experience.
- Licensure in good standing in the country in which you are currently domiciled.
- Eligibility for licensure/registration with the Cayman Islands Veterinary Board.
Applicants should also possess:
- Ability and flexibility to respond to after-hours of medical and surgical emergencies, as required.
- Ability to work independently and well, in a culturally diverse setting of staff and clients.
- A High level of maturity, professionalism, initiative, integrity and confidentiality.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including documentation and presentation skills.
- Proven technical hands–on skill sets, related to small animal medical and surgical practice.
- Proficiency at managing the care and maintenance of medical and surgical equipment
Base Salary: Range USD 40, 000 - 60, 000 per annum
The full compensation package includes Statutory Health Insurance and Pension benefits, Continuing Education allowance, Emergency production structure, Vacation entitlement and paid memberships to the local medical association and a professional veterinary network.
Applications along with 3 references, including at least one professional reference, should be submitted to:
Rhondalf Services Ltd T/A Veterinary Clinic and Specialty Boarding
P O Box 1240
Grand Cayman. KY1-1503. CAYMAN ISLANDS
OR
Via email to: alfredbenjamin135@gmail.com
See our website www.caymanislandvetclinic.com
Siem Reap Veterinary Care, Cambodia (posted 3rd August) Volunteer Vet Nurses/Techs
🐾 Volunteer Veterinary Nurses/Vet Techs
Siem Reap Veterinary Care – Cambodia
If you've ever wanted to combine travel with meaningful, hands-on animal care, this is your opportunity to experience something unforgettable.
Siem Reap Veterinary Care (SRVC) is seeking veterinary nurses to visit our small-animal clinic in beautiful Siem Reap, Cambodia. We host volunteers year-round and are always grateful for extra helping hands. Short notice is fine for us. In return, we aim to have you feel part of the family from day one and help you to make connections and settle here.
🌿 About SRVC
SRVC is a well-established small animal practice caring for beloved family pets, rescued and vulnerable animals.
We're located just minutes from Angkor Wat, surrounded by lively markets, cafés, and stunning countryside.
Please click here to see photos!
✨ What you'll be doing
Your contribution genuinely lightens the load for the team and directly improves animal welfare. Depending on your skills and experience, you may:
- Assist with consultations and procedures such as I/V's, blood samples, and microscopy
- Support surgery and anaesthesia monitoring
- Help in the treatment room and hospital care
- Nurse medical and post-operative patients
- Comfort frightened or rescued animals
- Help with cleaning, organisation, and daily clinic flow
- Support stock, prep, and general clinic operations
🌏 What you'll gain
- Exposure to conditions and diseases rarely seen elsewhere
- Confidence working in a resource-limited environment
- Adaptability and problem-solving skills
- A deeper connection to why you chose animal care
And outside the clinic:
- Sunrise temple visits at Angkor
- Bustling night markets
- Weekend countryside or island adventures
- Relaxing at luxury hotel pools
- Healing modalities
- Enjoy a slow, quiet cafe, nature and endless tropical fruit.
Many volunteers say this experience rekindles their love for veterinary work.
💛 About you
We're looking for people who are:
- Kind and compassionate
- Adaptable and proactive
- Comfortable helping wherever needed
- Practical and hands-on
- Team-focused and positive
If you're the type who naturally says “How can I help?” — you'll fit right in.
🩺 The role
This is a volunteer position (unpaid).
While we can't offer a salary, we offer something different:
- Genuine impact
- Professional growth
- Unique life experience
- New friendships
- And memories that stay with you for life
Volunteers are welcome for a minimum of 2 weeks. Longer placements are preferred.
📩 Interested?
We'd love to hear from you.
Please send your CV and a short introduction to:
brooke.certa@coastalvets.com
Tell us:
- Your experience
- Your availability
- Why this opportunity speaks to you
We look forward to welcoming you for your adventure 💞
Pacific Animal Shelter and Hospital PASH, Nadi, Fiji (posted 24th July)
👩⚕️ Veterinary Nurse or Assistant
Permanent Contract
(3 Years with the option to renew for further 3)
Start Date: ASAP
🕔 Days of Work: Monday to Sunday on a 5 day roster.
Hours of Work: 8am to 5pm
📍 PASH Fiji
Legalega Lane Nadi - 10 mins from Nadi International Airport
We have a second position available in our upcoming Suva Clinic.
🌐 Website: www.pashfiji.com
About the Role
PASH - Fiji's first purpose-built rescue shelter and veterinary clinic is seeking an experienced Veterinary Nurse or Assistant.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a dual-purpose role: providing medical care to shelter animals in our care, while also servicing paying clients — the client work is a key part of how we fund our charitable operations, so this role directly supports our mission.
Please click here to see photos!
Key Details
- Organisation: Registered Charitable Trust (no government or donor funding)
- Work Schedule: Roster system - may include any day Monday to Sunday, schedule to be discussed at interview (emergency on-call duties may be required, paid on top of salary as worked)
- Salary: In line with local veterinary nursing rates
- Reports to: Resident or Lead Veterinarian.
Responsibilities
- Assist veterinarians during consultations, surgeries, and treatments
- Provide daily care for shelter animals, including health checks and monitoring
- Prepare and maintain surgical and treatment areas to a high hygiene standard
- Administer medications and post-operative care as directed
- Support desexing clinics and outreach work (may include rural or island locations, with occasional overnight stays)
- Maintain accurate medical and treatment records
- Assist with vaccinations, parasite control, and preventive care
- Provide compassionate handling and restraint of animals, including nervous or injured cases
- Support emergency care and stabilisation when required
Requirements
- Veterinary nursing qualification (or equivalent hands-on experience)
- Min 3 years experience
- Comfortable working in a hospital and shelter environment
- Confident handling cats and dogs, including anxious or unwell animals
- Comfortable working in rural and island settings for outreach clinics
- Strong attention to detail and accurate record-keeping
- Compassionate, patient, and calm under pressure
- Ability to work well within a small, close-knit team
- Ability to work alone, including triaging of emergency cases until a veterinarian is available.
- Experience mentoring or training junior staff is an advantage and forms part of the role.
Why Join Us?
- Make a genuine, tangible impact on animal welfare in Fiji
- Onsite accommodation, living allowance, and airfare contribution (up to $2,000 FJD) provided
- Be part of a passionate, close-knit team
- Experience the beauty of Fiji
Interested?
Send your CV and proof of qualifications to manager@pashfiji.com. As a visa may be required we recommend applying as early as possible.
Mayreau Animal Welfare, West of the Tobago Keys, St Vincent & The Grenadines (posted 23rd April) Volunteer Vet Nurses
VETERINARY NURSE VOLUNTEER FOR MAYREAU ANIMAL WELFARE
ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES
Summary: -
Mayreau Animal Welfare is seeking a Veterinary Nurse Volunteer to provide animal care services on the island. monitoring animal health and ensuring that animals receive adequate care.
Key Responsibilities: -
- Provide daily care and monitoring of animals (mostly dogs and cats) including feeding, watering and exercise
- Monitor the health of the island animals and report any concerns to our online veterinarian service, if no vet on the island
- Administer medications and treatments
- Maintain accurate records
- Educate the community about responsible pet ownership
- Help with daily walks for our resident house dogs, and when time allows, walk other chained dogs whose owners have given us permission.
- In case of emergencies, liaise with veterinarians on a neighbouring island and help facilitate transport of the animal for treatment.
Qualifications: -
- Certified Veterinary Nurse or equivalent qualification
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Passion for animal welfare and commitment to the mission of Mayreau Animal Welfare
- Ability to live and work on a small island with limited amenities
Working Conditions: -
- We seek committed, fit, easy-going volunteers, who are diplomatic, outgoing, resilient, OK with the heat and content with simple living
- Mayreau is a hilly island and volunteers need to be reasonably fit. There is a small clinic on Mayreau, which is usually staffed by a Nurse, with a doctor visiting the island once a month. In case of emergencies, you would need to travel to neighbouring Union Island (a 20 minute speedboat ride away).
For more information, please contact Gill by email fitzgerald201@btinternet.com or Whats App: +44 77591 46327
See our website: www.mayreau-animal-welfare.org, 
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SPCA Fiji, Suva, Fiji (posted 7th April) Volunteer Vet Nurses
Volunteer Vet Nurses
(SHELTER and CLINIC & OUTREACH)
SUVA, FIJI
Join us as a volunteer in the breath-taking Fiji Islands!
COME AND MEET THE FRIENDLIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH!
SPCA Fiji Islands is an animal shelter and veterinary clinic based in the capital city of Suva. The mission of the SPCA Fiji Islands is to improve the welfare of animals in and around Fiji.
We do this by focusing on providing affordable health care for domestic pets and working to address the issue of stray cats and dogs through intake of stray and unwanted animals into the shelter that are then treated, desexed and rehomed We also run a vibrant outreach program and have desexed and treated over 4,000 animals thus far, this year alone.
Why do so many of our volunteer vets return again and again?
Because they get rich and rewarding professional, and personal, opportunities and experiences.
We have opportunities for passionate veterinary surgeons and nurses to assist at our regional outreach neuter clinics, shelter and clinic operations, throughout 2026 and beyond.
SPCA offers veterinarians and nurses real-world experiences working with diverse cases in city and rural settings across the Fiji Islands.
SPCA has four resident veterinarians currently. We have a team of Fijian 6 nurses and interns delivering a broad range of veterinary services to both shelter animals and local pet owners in a basic facility for examinations, radiography and surgery.
Join us for a couple of weeks or stay up to three months as a volunteer.
SPCA will organize permits for volunteers and provide you with accommodation close to the centre of Suva. You will be welcomed at the airport the Fijian way. Afterward, you will be settled into your accommodation and briefed on your role at the SPCA.
Please contact clncmngr@gmail.com in Suva, Fiji for more information and to get a copy of our volunteer information package.
Where: Suva, Fiji Islands
When: 2026 onwards
What: SPCA clinic (surgery and consults )and outreach clinic
Why: To help improve the welfare of Fiji’s animals
How: With the help of people like YOU!
Santisook Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand (posted 31st March) Volunteers
VOLUNTEER VETERINARY TECHNICIANS AND NURSES
Santisook is a Thai-run, non-profit organization dedicated to caring for the many dogs and cats living in the Chiang Mai area. We operate both dog and cat shelters, re-home hundreds of animals each year, provide emergency care to strays, collaborate with local monks to support temple dogs, run TNR (trap-neuter-return) programs for local government and community caretakers, and offer subsidized sterilizations for animals belonging to families in need.
We welcome veterinary technicians and nurses year-round. Veterinary technicians and nurses assist the veterinarians when we conduct TNR programs in Chiang Mai and surrounding areas. On regular days, volunteers assist our Thai veterinarian with shelter treatments and emergency rescues.
Volunteer Requirements & Benefits
- Minimum commitment: 1 week
- No fees for volunteers
- Accommodation available near the shelter in Sanpatong, outside Chiangmai City.
Chiang Mai offers a rich cultural experience, and volunteering with Santisook is a unique opportunity to develop spay/neuter skills, immerse yourself in Thai culture, enjoy adventure, and make a meaningful difference for animals in need.
For more information email us at santisookdogsandcats@gmail.com
See www.santisookdogandcat.org and
KWPLH, East Kalimantan, Borneo (posted 23rd March) Volunteer Vet Nurses
Veterinary help needed in Indonesian Borneo
Help improve animal welfare in Indonesia by sharing your skills and experience!
Facility and Program Description:
Kawasan Wisata Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup (KWPLH) is an environmental education center located in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. The facility’s goal is to increase environmental awareness and animal welfare. In addition to our animal programmes, the facility has several education buildings, picnic areas and playgrounds. To see a full description of the KWPLH’s facilities and goals visit www.beruangmadu.org or email us.
KWPLH provides a wonderful accommodation in the form of a forested enclosure for 6 sun bears rescued from the illegal pet trade. Sun bears are the mascot of Balikpapan, and many of our current education programs focus on this species.
Our Domestic Animal Program was created in response to the frequent dumping of kittens/puppies at KWPLH. We have attempted to establish a safe home for abandoned animals and a sterilization and adoption program. We currently have 110+ cats under our care as well as close to 30 dogs, and occasionally take care of other rescued wildlife species whenever brought to the center (macaque, civets, slow loris, birds).
The goals of our Domestic Animal Program are:
- Educate visitors in proper pet care including the promotion of pet sterilization;
- Discourage to keeping of wildlife (sun bears, orangutans etc.) as pets by
highlighting the difference between wild and domestic animals; - Ensure the welfare of the cats and dogs within the environs of KWPLH;
- Provide free sterilization programmes for community pets and stray animals, prioritizing animals living in the vicinity of the center;
Experienced Volunteer Vet [Nurse] Needed
We are in need of experienced veterinarian/ vet nurse to assist with training and development of our local animal care team. The primary goal is to further train up our team [specifically our local veterinarian] in specialist medical care for our animals, under more or less challenging conditions, and to train our Indonesian animal care-taking staff in mastering necessary skills and knowledge on specialist issues that need frequent treatments.
Other tasks include ideas on improvement of our medical administration and records, enrichment and training programs, and enhancing our adoption programme. There will be work with the sun bears and other wild species, but most time will go to our domestic animals and staff training.
Outlined below is a list of topics that we need help with:
- Training on [preventative] care of key medical issues afflicting animals in our target area of work;
- Assist with health checks, monitoring of sick animals, and preventive
medicine; - Provide training to our local team in mastering key vet [nursing] skills, including but not limited to: safe and effective holds, injection techniques (s.c., i.m., and i.v.), animal handling, sterilization of tools, anesthesia administration and monitoring, clinic administration, first aid, etc;
- Efficient animal care database management and administration:
- Assist with daily animal care, including feeding and cleaning;
- Assist with dog training and training our local animal staff;
- Assist bear keepers in treatment of sun bear medical issues;
- Assist with improvement of enrichment programs for domestic animals, sun bears and other wildlife occasionally taken care of at the center;
For more details about KWPLH and the veterinary position please email us!
We welcome the help from professional vet nurses in 2025. The position is preferably for 3+ months, but do e-mail us as well if you are available for shorter periods. Free housing is provided at the center, but a small local catering fee is required for meals. A volunteer visa will need to be applied for at a small cost. Couples are also welcome to apply.
Please send end questions and resumes to Gabriella Fredriksson:
gabriella.fredriksson@gmail.com
For further information visit our website: www.beruangmadu.org or
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