Veterinary nurses

Lorna joined our team in April 2013 as a third year trainee veterinary nurse and in June 2014 became a fully qualified veterinary nurse.

She is now a clinical coach to our trainee nurses, and helps Carly run our puppy play groups on a Tuesday evening. She has passed her MiNurse Academy course where she studied to become a clinical nurse practitioner in small animals.

Lorna has a cat called Twigs who she loves very much.

Samantha joined us here in January 2021 at Plunkett’s as one of the registered nurses, having worked at other practices in Thanet and bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience with her.

Sam qualified in 2018 and her favourite area of nursing is surgery. She loves spending hours in theatre monitoring our patients and looking after them when they recover.

Sam is very social and loves spending time with family and friends outside of work.

Felicity (known in the practice at Flick) has worked in the veterinary industry for years. She started out as a receptionist within a veterinary hospital in Canterbury before training in Dover as a veterinary nurse and joining us in Plunketts in 2021. She is passionate about inpatient care and surgical nursing.

Flick has some unusual pets at home including an axolotl and loves to meet our clients pets especially the more unusual ones.

Sophie joined our team in February 2012 as kennel and nursing assistant, completing her veterinary care assistant course in August 2014. She qualified as a nurse with us in March 2020.

Sophie has a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Tilly, a cat called Tinkerbelle who came in as a stray that she fell in love with so decided to make part of the family in March 2015.

Megan is new to the practice joining us in 2022 following one of our PCA’s being promoted and moving to a new location. She a fantastic member of the team and is calm in every situation, she really wants to develop her career with animals and hopefully one day to train further in the industry.

She is really enjoying getting to know our clients and can be seen featuring in some of our Facebook and Instagram posts modelling with the patients.

Abby joined the practice in 2021 as a receptionist, a lot of our clients will have seen her being bright and bubbly with the patients on the desk at the old site and for a while at our new practice. She is passionate about animal care and comes from a background in Animal Insurance. She really wants to become a veterinary nurse and is currently working on becoming a fantastic PCA with a view to going to college in a few years to study veterinary nursing.

She has a great group of animals at home including two dogs, who she has had fantastic success in a weight management program with them. She also fell in love with a stray cat we had brought in and took him home… not to mention the pony she owns as well!

Selina joined our team in January 1998 and is one of the longest standing members of our team. She completed her animal nursing assistant course in April 2014 and in October 2015 started a course in holistic horse massage.

Selina is our Practice Cat Advocate. She is in charge of our cattery which is open all year round giving lots of TLC and love to all of our feline visitors.