What's Involved?

An overview of what's offered on the course.

A quick overview of what you will be undertaking.

Entry Requirements

Aged 16 or over and a school leaver.

Must be a UK Citizen or have the correct employment visa.

Employed in a small animal veterinary practice working a minimum of 30hrs/week.

Minimum of 5 GCSEs at grades of A-C /4-9 including Maths, English Language and Science

Learning & Assessment

Theoretical knowledge and understanding will be assessed by a number of processes set by Vetskill, our external awarding body.

Practical Skills Assessment

Course Tutors & Support Staff

Norrie Graham

BVSc, MRCVS

Rebecca Brooks

BVM&S, MRCVS AdvCertVPhys, Cert.Clin.Ed (Acc Mdx),MIRVAP

Careers in Veterinary Nursing

Once qualified the door is open to a number of career pathways.
Clinical Practice
Specialisation
Pharmaceutical
Animal Welfare Roles
Instructor / Lecturer
Laboratory Technician

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Dr Norrie Graham

Norrie qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 2000 from Liverpool Vet School. She has worked in most areas of clinical practice and has a wealth of experience, including practice management and staff training.

She has been involved in a number of start – up projects relating to the veterinary industry including a Pet Insurance Company.

Norrie is Senior Veterinary Surgeon at Mkt Rasen Racecourse,  a Veterinary Practice Owner with over 200 employees and sits on a Buying Group Clinical Governance Board.

She has two teenage daughters, enjoys the gym, swimming and spending time with friends and family

Rebecca Brooks

Becky qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 1993 and worked in mixed practice for a number of years. She became a partner in a practice in the north of England in 1999 where she also became first involved with Veterinary Nurse training.

She moved to Lincolnshire in 2004 and continued her career in mixed practice and in 2011 she undertook training in Veterinary Physiotherapy.  This led her on to taking her teaching qualifications and eventually lecturing at Nottingham University School of Veterinary Medicine.  There she enjoyed teaching students Canine and Equine Veterinary Physiotherapy until 2018.

She returned back to clinical practice  in 2021 and has been actively involved in the RCVS  Graduate Development Programme for a significant number of recently qualified veterinary surgeons.

Becky is back lecturing again at RVNC and has written our VTECH Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing(Companion Animal) course.  She is responsible for the day to day running of the college and is the student point of contact.

Becky has a young family and enjoys spending her spare time on her farm with her sheep and Exmoor ponies.

Carolyn Bateman

Carolyn has been working in veterinary practice since 1995 and qualified as an RVN in 2003.  She then went on to do her EVN(Equine) Nursing qualification in 2009.

She completed her Veterinary Nurse Assessor training in 2005 and has been heavily involved in veterinary nurse training locally ever since.

She enjoys spending time at home with her dogs and her horse Maggie.

Tracy Oliver

Tracy qualified as an RVN IN 2003 and she worked in full time mixed practice. She had a successful stint as Head Veterinary Nurse responsible for a large team of nurses for a number of years before taking a career break to look after her young family.

In her spare time she went on to gain a City and Guilds Teaching Cert and taught Animal Care for a number of years alongside her veterinary nursing career in a local college.

Rachel Cooke

Rachel qualified as an RVN in 2008, working in a busy and mixed practice, prior to working in a busy SA hospital including OCH’s work.

She qualified as an assessor and clinical coach and became training manager for a large veterinary group, prior to moving into VN education in 2012.

She has been assessor, lecturer, LQA and more recently head of centre for a training provider.

She has taught on VNL3, L2VCA and Animal Care and Management courses (City & Guilds, C+G and VetSkill).

She has all the relevant teaching qualifications and is also an OSLE examiner.

She has three young boys, enjoys exercising, walking and training her dogs, and spending time with her family and friends.