CVS Veterinary Group Reviews

Horrendous management No care of staff wellbeing Incorrect pay on resignation Tax done incorrectly No care for each individual practice from regional manager Opportunities to better myself often given (pet bereavement support, nutrition educations days) HOWEVER, these opportunities never once carried through and always fell through the gaps for some reason.

No respect for the people working in practice. Staffing cuts, redundancies and lack of budget mean no nursing staff with the same amount of workload. Poorly managed in general - from higher ups and in house. Highly stressed team, workload ever-increasing with no thanks, laughable pay rises, the expectation to just grin and bear it. The pay is abysmal. The pay for newly qualified nurses is a joke. CVS have recently cracked down on ‘clutter’ and request practices ‘declutter’ which means we have been made to remove all emergency dose posters from the walls, dosage charts and anything useful is now out of arms reach. Recently a senior member of management sent out an email stating that as their nurses are so badly paid they were discontinuing their 3% over NMW scheme for their students and reception staff. This was to make the nurses feel like they were either being paid more/there was a bigger difference in wages between a student and a qvn…