Ready Vet Go | Melbourne

As seen on Channel 9

Take your veterinary nursing skills on the road.

VETERINARY NURSE – Mobile Urgent & Emergency Care

Ready Vet Go | Melbourne

Full-Time & Part-Time Opportunities | Above-Award Remuneration

As seen on Channel 9

Take your veterinary nursing skills on the road.

If you love veterinary nursing but want to experience it outside the walls of a clinic or hospital, Ready Vet Go offers a role like no other.

Ready Vet Go is Melbourne’s veterinary ambulance and mobile urgent-care service, providing urgent veterinary care in the community and safe transport for unwell pets to veterinary hospitals.

Our nurses work alongside a veterinarian as a two-person clinical team, travelling throughout Melbourne to care for patients in their homes, in our ambulances and during their journey to hospital.

It’s hands-on veterinary nursing, strong teamwork and meaningful client care — just in a very different environment.

Ready Vet Go – as seen on Channel 9.

What does the job look like?

You’ll start your shift from our brand recent headquarters in Huntingdale VIC before heading into the community with your veterinarian teammate.

A shift alongside your vet teammate may include:

- Urgent and emergency house-call consultations, from straightforward presentations to seriously unwell patients
- Stabilising patients before hospital admission
- Home-to-hospital veterinary ambulance transport
- Inter-hospital transfers
- Palliative care and home euthanasia
- Longer-distance transports across Greater Melbourne and occasionally regional Victoria
- Communicating with pet owners, referring vets, emergency hospitals and specialist teams

Every shift & case brings variety, & being on the road is a large part of the role.

Nursing one patient at a time

One of the biggest differences from hospital nursing is the ability to focus on the patient their pet owners currently one at a time.

Your nursing responsibilities may include:

- Patient assessment, observations and monitoring
- IV access and fluid therapy
- Oxygen therapy and emergency equipment preparation
- Assisting with sedation, anaesthesia and procedures
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Preparing and monitoring patients during transport




- Assisting with transport of pets out of their home & into the ambulance
- Supporting owners during stressful or emotional situations
- Providing clear clinical handover to receiving hospitals
- Maintaining ambulance, equipment and stock readiness

Your role will involve a lower caseload with a higher amount of individual attention, communication and care for each pet & their family.

You’ll have a teammate by your side.

Every clinical shift pairs a Veterinarian + Veterinary Nurse.

You attend cases together, travel together and care for patients together.

The model provides skilled clinical teamwork, support during higher-acuity cases, companionship on longer drives and an important additional layer of safety when working in the community.

You’ll build a close working partnership with the vet beside you while still having plenty of opportunity to use your own nursing skills, judgement and initiative.

Good communication matters

Some of the most important moments in this role happen outside the clinical hands-on itself.

You’ll support owners who may be worried, overwhelmed or making difficult decisions. You’ll explain what is happening, help prepare them for what comes next and communicate professionally with veterinary teams across Melbourne.

If you enjoy the people side of veterinary nursing as much as the clinical side, you’ll likely enjoy this work.

Who we're looking for

We’d love to hear from veterinary nurses who have:

- Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing or equivalent
- Ideally 2+ years of clinical veterinary nursing experience
- A valid Victorian driver’s licence and good driving record
- Strong foundational nursing and patient-monitoring skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Confidence supporting clients through stressful situations
- Good organisation, documentation and attention to detail




- The ability to work closely with a veterinarian while using your own initiative
- An adaptable approach to changing patients, environments and situations
- A genuine interest in urgent and emergency veterinary care

Previous ECC or referral experience is highly regarded but not essential. Your onboarding will not only ensure that you understand the operational ropes of our service, but you will also be paired with an experienced team member & learning on the job is encouraged!

If you’re an experienced GP nurse with strong clinical foundations, good judgement and an enthusiasm for developing your more emergency-focused skills, we’d love to hear from you.

Why join Ready Vet Go?

- Above-award remuneration based on your skills and experience
- Full-time and part-time opportunities
- Work as part of a consistent Vet + Nurse clinical team
- Focus on one patient at a time
- Gain exposure to urgent and emergency cases without spending every shift on a hospital floor
- Work across homes, ambulances and veterinary hospitals throughout Melbourne
- Ongoing education and clinical development
- Opportunities including RECOVER CPR Rescuer Certification, ongoing internal & external CPD opportunities, & educational workshops.
- Access to veterinary education and professional resources
- Be part of a growing service doing something genuinely different in Australian veterinary care

You might love this role if you enjoy:

Giving your patient your full attention

Getting out of the hospital and into the community

Urgent and emergency veterinary medicine

Working closely with another clinician

Using your wealth of experience to supporting pet owners

Building relationships with veterinary teams

Driving and being on the move

Thinking independently and adapting as the situation changes

If you’re looking for clinical variety, strong teamwork, meaningful client relationships and a veterinary nursing career that gets you out into the community, we’d love to meet you.

Ready for something different?

Take your veterinary nursing skills on the road.

Ready Vet Go – Veterinary Ambulance & Mobile Urgent Care

Huntingdale, Victoria, Australia

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