Small Animal Nurses

Claire started at Bishopton Vets in 2000 as a trainee nurse, and has been Head Nurse since 2007. She looks after the clinical and practice standards across all of surgeries. 

Holly started working at Bishopton in 2016, after qualifying and completing her training at a Veterinary Hospital in Harrogate. She grew up on a family dairy farm and this is where her love of animals great and small stemmed from. At work her passion lies in medical nursing and the care of our hospitalised patients and she looks forward to expanding her knowledge with further qualifications in this area. Holly has recently been promoted to Senior Medical Nurse.

Laura graduated from Harper Adams in 2016 with a first class degree in Veterinary Nursing and Practice Management. Her first job as an RVN was in a mixed practice in East Yorkshire, but for the last three years she has been working as Head Nurse in a small animal practice in York. She has also spent some time guest lecturing at Askham Bryan College in York. Laura thoroughly enjoys all aspects of veterinary nursing, but her passions are medical nursing, physiotherapy, geriatric patient care and radiography. She also loves training student nurses and is currently working towards her Nutritional Ambassador qualification.

Eleanor studied at Harper Adams University gaining a degree in Veterinary Nursing and Practice Managment. Since qualifying as a veterinary nurse Eleanor has locumed in London before moving up to Yorkshire. Eleanor loves all aspect of nursing but her key areas of interest lie in emergency and critical care, medicine, physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

Beth lives in Nidderdale with her husband and two young children. Animals have always played a big part in her life, currently she has 2 rabbits, 2 cats and 13 pet sheep.

In her previous job Beth worked with llamas and alpacas, so Bishopton is something a bit different for her.

Keira is studying at Askham Bryan college she lives on her family dairy and sheep farm and especially enjoys lambing time.

Chloe has been a veterinary nurse for 14 years, working in both mixed and referral settings.

Chloe has recently undertaken and achieved a certificate in medical nursing.

Outside of work, she loves looking after her young family and spending time outdoors with her Labrador.

Becky started working at Bishopton in 2018 and has recently qualified as a registered veterinary nurse. Prior to joining Bishopton Becky worked as a dog groomer.

Outside of work Becky's hobbies and interests are all animal related. Becky adores all animals, particularly dogs and farm animals. In her spare time she enjoys walks in the countryside with her dogs and spending time with her cheeky herd of pygmy goats.

Cara previously studyied Zoology and wildlife conservation, whilst working as a bird and sealion trainer at a local zoo. Cara then decided to focus her interests on becoming a Veterinary Nurse. She loves all aspects of nursing, especially forming connections with the inpatients and monitoring patients during surgery.

Emma is studying at Askham Bryan College and is looking forward to joining the Nursing Team for her placement year.

Emma has 3 horses, 2 dogs and 2 cats.

In her spare time, Emma enjoys eventing with her horse and spending time with her animals & family.

Naomi qualified with a degree in Canine and Feline Training, Behaviour and Welfare before coming to work for Bishopton in 2018 within our Client Care Team. She was promoted to Deputy Client Care Leader before making the big decision to join our clinical team as a student nurse in September 2022. Naomi enjoys all aspects of her job and is enjoying putting her knowlege of canine behaviour and animal training to use.

Steph has a background in design, but when she joined Bishopton in 2017 she changed track to her dream career of working with animals. Steph originally started at Bishopton as a Client & Clinical Care Assistant and after two years she was offered the opportunity to train to study as a nurse. Steph comes from a farming family and has grown up around animals of all sizes, in particular sheep.

Lizzy has joined Bishopton Vets as Student Veterinary Nurse and will be studying at Askham Bryan. Before this, Lizzy studied Equine Management at Askham Bryan and is following her passion for animals and biology.

Her family has a history of farming and later breeding, showing and judging pedigree limousin cattle.

A real country girl, she enjoys riding her horse Millie, looking after the family’s 12 year old Jack Russell and two cats.

Olivia has recently completed her BSc top up degree in Veterinary Nursing at Askham Bryan College and has a keen interest in nutrition.

Olivia is keen to complete further education within that field in the future.

Laura is a registered veterinary nurse who loves a mixture of medicine and surgical cases. She also has a passion for behaviour and hopes to one day expand her knowledge further in this area.

In her spare time, she loves to hike with her cocker spaniel, Hank and spend time with friends and family. 

Rosie's journey in Bishopton began in 2018 when she arrived for work experience. Transitioning into her student veterinary nursing course in September 2021. Fast forward to 2024 and she qualified as a Registered Veterinary Nurse. Rosie adores all animals but has a passion for small mammals like rodents and ferrets and hopes to develop her knowledge on their care and health. Rosie is eager to expand her knowldege on phlebotomy and blood transfusions.

Helen has over 20 years experience as a veterinary nurse and loves all aspects of the  varied role. She particularly enjoys her role as senior consulting nurse and is predominately at the Ripon hospital.

Helen thrives on getting to know clients and their pets and building relationships with them from the early years through to becoming geriatrics and of course assisting with their care/needs for the stages in-between.

She has a keen interest in senior health clinics and medical cases, along with running confidence sessions for dogs which she finds extremely rewarding.

Helen also likes to make sure that she is an advocate for our feline patients and that they are cared for in a cat friendly manner while at the practice.

Lucy qualified as a Registered Veterinary Nurse in 2018 with a foundation degree from Askham Bryan College. She started working at Bishopton in March 2022 splitting her time between practice nursing where she carries out nurse consultations and a general nursing role which involves caring for inpatients, monitoring anaesthesia and taking and running bloods. 

Lucy has a keen interest in canine behaviour and hopes to study this is more depth in the near future. She has always enjoyed training dogs but since getting her own rescue dog in 2019 she can understand how this can help many dogs and families.

Emma Saxton joined the practice as a Night Nurse. Emma completed her training at Askham Bryan, York. Her particular interests in work are inpatient care and interesting medical cases – she loves some emergency surgery too.

Hannah has been a Veterinary Nurse for 5 years having completed her training at Bishopton Vets.

Hannah has spent time in Cumbria with her family but is happy to have rejoined Bishopton Vets in 2024.