Our Nurses

Amanda Haynes is York Street’s invaluable ‘mother hen’ with over 25 years’ experience in veterinary clinics. She progressed from being an RVN (Registered Veterinary Nurse), to Head RVN and Staff Assessor to Manager of an independent vet practice, and still found time to acquire a husband, numerous four legged companions and participate in animal charity fund raising events such as sky diving and wing walking. And zip off to Peru and walk the Inca Trail!
Before she joined the London Vet Clinic, Amanda worked for five years for corporate vet clinic companies. It’s our good fortune that Amanda chose to return to the independent clinic sector and provide her wealth of knowledge and experience to us. As well as a husband and a son Atlas, Amanda lives with three cats (Nero, Onyx and Mango), four tortoises (Toby, Victor, Albert and Nigel), a bearded dragon called Mushu, an Axolotl called Winston, and numerous fish.  The most common sentence we use with each other at York Street is “Ask Amanda.”.

Vicky, who you meet as a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) in Nurses Consults,- giving injections, cleaning ears, cutting overgrown nails – trained as a nurse in rural Scotland but possesses a fascinating range of additional unique skills and qualifications. If we set aside her enjoyment of free-diving or her skills as a seal trainer or even her BSc in Zoology, Vicky is also one of the very few RVNs with a Masters degree in Clinical Animal Behaviour. (We are sure that the London Vet Clinic is the only primary care clinic in the UK with two people, Vicky and Natalia, with MScs in Clinical Animal Behaviour.)

Vicky’s MSc was achieved at the University of Edinburgh. Her special interest is feline behaviour and Vicky sees all new kittens that come to York Street. Her other clinical interests include pain management and laboratory diagnostics. She is an Elite Fear Free Certified Vet Professional. Originally from Greece and with a background in human healthcare Vicky also has experience – you guessed it –  in surveying bat populations and  owl management!

Most of you are familiar with Jessica, York Street’s Head Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) who has been here since 2018. But did you know that as well as being a BSc (Hons) Jess also has a Post Graduate Certificate from the University of London in Advanced Veterinary Nursing in Anaesthesia and Analgesia (PgCertAVN)?

To gain this advanced qualification, as well as her responsibilities here, Jess worked for 18 months with a team at the Queen Mother Hospital at the Royal Veterinary College getting hands-on experience with challenging anaesthesias.  She completed written assignments and exams. Jess applies her advanced skills at York Street during routine and higher-risk anaesthetias. Her rescue Jack Russell / Chihuahua Poppy, is our honorary sixth veterinary nurse.

Like so many others who choose to become qualified veterinary nurses, Sophie’s career began elsewhere, in her specific circumstances in travel and marketing in her native Australia. The need for more fulfilling days brought Sophie to London, into the veterinary world and after completing her RVN (Registered Veterinary Nursing) qualification and gaining local experience working in north London, happily to us here at York Street. Sophie brings her fresh, positive, Australian attitude to caring for you and your pets. Her add-on love of baking means that the humans and canines at the London Vet Clinic are eager to see her each morning. (We have shared one of her Treats for Dogs recipes in our monthly newsletters

When Angela, her husband Fraser and daughter Evie moved to Devon in 2023 we knew we had to find a way for her to continue to be part of the York Street team. Angela had worked at the clinic for almost 20 years sharing theatre prep and operation responsibilities with the other nurses. She knows in tiny detail not just how everything works but who everyone is.

Her home in Devon is isolated but with the help of a Starlink satellite dish Ang continues in real time to be part of the London Vet Clinic, speaking with you on the telephone, answering your emails and speaking with her colleagues in reception many times each day. Ang is no longer actively involved in field hockey but her naturally up-beat personality  continues to be a wonderful asset to the team.

When you speak with Jenny on the telephone you may think she’s in her 20s but Jen has been part of the London Veterinary Clinic since the mid 1970’s. She was one of the first fully qualified RVNs, (Registered Veterinary Nurses). When she lived in Holland Park it was easy for her to get to York Street each day, bring her Italian Spinones with her.  Marriage and daughters followed, and her family moved to Hereford on the Welsh border but Jen continued to be part of the team, participated by telephone and post, completing admin work and insurance claims. She still does but with much better technology. Jenny is probably more knowledgeable about pet insurance than the insurers themselves. After almost 50 years with the London Vet Clinic Jen continues to help you with any questions you have.