Permanent Veterinary Nurse
- Are you a qualified and RCVS registered veterinary nurse?
- Are you looking to join a new start of the art independent practice in South Hertfordshire?
- A new and exciting challenge ?
- A great salary of up to £36,000?
- 4-day week?
- A min of 5% annual profit to all practice staff as a bonus payment each year?
- A generous CPD allowance?
- A role where you become an important part of the practice's direction?
The practice is looking for a confident and ambitious RVN who has good experience working in a small animal practice. The role will involve all aspects of nursing and you will be prepared to develop your skills by collaborating with the wider team. You will perform your nursing duties with confidence to provide the gold standard of care to the practice's loyal clients. You must have excellent attention to detail and organisational skills. Your nursing duties will involve assisting in surgery, nurse clinics and inpatient care.
The role is full time for 4 days per week with shifts from 8:30am to 6:30pm, along with 1 in 3 or 4 Saturdays from 8:30am to 1pm. The practice is open to discussing alternative shift hours and days. There will be no OOH work or on-call duties.
Key details:
- Type: Small animal
- Hours: Full time, 4 days per week, shifts from 8:30am to 6:30pm
- Weekends: 1 in 3 or 4 Saturdays, 8:30am to 1pm
- OOH: None
- Branch work: None
- Team: 3 vets, 5 nurses and a supportive non-clinical team
- Sole charge: None
- Consultations: Minimum of 15 minutes
- Independent practice who has opened a second site due to success with their first practice
- Clinical interests supported and very much encouraged
- Brand-new purpose-built state of the art air-conditioned practice fully equipped
- Offers a fantastic work-life balance
- Offers modern veterinary services, diagnostics, and facilities to small animals
- Can provide ongoing training and development where required
- They offer a professional but fun environment, where client and patient care are balanced with great team morale and enjoyment of their wonderful job
- You will be able to maximise your nursing skill set working here
- Handling and restraining animals in a safe and controlled way
- Provide first-class nursing care to injured/sick patients, including documentation, monitoring, health checking, feeding and grooming
- Administer treatments including injections, tablets, drips and blood transfusions
- Perform diagnostic tests, e.g. blood sampling, urine analysis and x-rays
- Prepare animals for surgery and perform some minor procedures, e.g. suturing wounds and dental hygiene
- Assist veterinary surgeons with operations
- Maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of the practice
- Allocating nursing and healthcare resources where needed
- Organizing nurses' notes regarding patients
- Providing patient paperwork
- Coordinating patient payments with payments department or process payments on their own
- Participating in training new hires
- Placing orders for equipment and supplies
- You will need to be confident in your own abilities and have excellent clinical and customer service skills to succeed in this
- Teamwork, patient care, high standards and building relationships with clients are at the forefront of what they do
- They are looking for an enthusiastic, goal oriented and self-motivated veterinary nurse to continue the rapid growth of the practice
- You will need to be comfortable liaising with other veterinary team members, specialists and service providers
- This role requires excellent clinical and customer service skills
- You will need to be comfortable liaising with other veterinary team members, specialists and service providers
The practice will soon be fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. They also welcome equipment requests from new Vets and the team. They are open to all ideas and would support a new vet who wanted specialised equipment. The practice will open with 3 consultation rooms, a cattery room, 2 operation rooms, a laboratory, and a pharmacy. They plan to further expand the clinic into the upstairs level in two years. Their veterinary services include dentistry, x-ray, ultrasound, orthopaedics, soft tissue surgery, neutering, anaesthetic monitoring and microchipping.
Package:
- Salary: £30,000 to £36,000 per annum, commensurate to experience
- Holidays: 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays and birthday off
- CPD: Generous allowance with 3 days to attend
- Memberships: RCVS and VDS fees paid
- Statutory sick pay
- Gym membership
- Free uniform
- Free car parking on site
- Discounted treatment for staff pets
- UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Death in service of two times annual salary
- Profit share of 5%
- RCVS registered and qualified or soon to be
- Possess the right to work in the United Kingdom
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Job Overview
Category
Veterinary Nurse (RVN)
Reference
24-41568
Offered Salary
30000 - 36000
Job Location
Hoddesdon, HR, GB
