Job Title: Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN)
Salary: £27000-30000 (FTE 40) pro rata
Location: Spinney Vets, Wootton Fields, Northampton
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 38.5 hours per week
Your role and responsibilities
Overview
The role of the veterinary nurse is critical to the provision of high standards of client and patient care.
In this role you will be a key a member of the nursing team, working effectively with the Lead Nurses and Clinical Nursing Manager to nurture great team ethics whilst providing guidance and support to the junior nursing staff and animal care/kennel assistants.
You will work closely with all team members to ensure the smooth running of all clinical areas and kennels and will have clear communication lines with all other teams to ensure the practice is providing outstanding patient and client care.
Main purpose & goals
• Ensure the highest standard of care is provided 100% of the time to 100% of our patients.
• Achieve the above whilst bearing in mind that the practice is a business and therefore costs need to be carefully always monitored and managed sensibly.
• Maintain accurate client and patient records.
• Provide an efficient, courteous, and helpful service to all clients, suppliers, and external contacts, under all conditions always.
• Participate with the admission and discharge process of patients, the accuracy of which is of vital importance.
• To demonstrate a commitment to continued professional development.
• Liaise between the nursing team and other teams within the practice to always ensure effective lines of communication.
• Promote our services, employees, and products, both in and out of the practice always.
• Understand and implement practice and group policies.
• Take an active role in the training programme of veterinary nurses and animal care/ kennel assistants.
Key responsibilities
• Undertake all general nursing duties within the practice and aid all veterinary surgeons when required.
• To carry out and be accountable for any specific tasks or responsibilities allocated by the Clinical Nursing manager, Practice Manager.
• Ensure you are organised and well prepared for the patients coming into the practice and you provide support where necessary to cover low staffing periods.
• Administer treatment (e.g. injections, medications, fluid therapy, dressings and euthanasia as directed) and dispense medication as instructed by the veterinary surgeon all in accordance with professional guidelines and practice policies.
• Ensure you keep accurate records with regards to medical records, anaesthetic sheets, hospitalisation forms etc.
• Care for all in-patients including pre-op care/medication, monitoring and recovery and post op care/medication.
• Ensure effective stock rotation/replenishment where applicable.
• Participate in any out of hours nursing rota as agreed on a shared rota system
• Support with reception duties where necessary, reporting on progress of in-patients to clients by telephone as needed.
• Participate in the cleaning and maintenance of the premises and patient areas and particularly the clinical areas with regular cleaning/routine care of all equipment to include the correct methods of sterilisation and reporting any faults or damage.
• Provide support and assistance to the Clinical Nursing Manager and Practice Manager as required.
• Assist the practice with any marketing initiatives which may include occasional open evenings or open days.
• Understand health and safety risks and read all information supplied to ensure the correct use of anaesthetic machines and scavenger units, regular cleaning, maintenance and servicing of equipment etc.
• Familiarise yourself with the Health and Safety Policies and refer any concerns to the Clinical Nursing Manager.
• Welcome and support any visiting veterinary surgeons, students and work experience employees to ensure safe methods of working.
• Attend regular meetings with the Clinical Nursing Managers and other employees to ensure you are working effectively and efficiently as a team.
• Participate in relevant CPD appropriate to your role plus any training in-house, ensuring post-training feedback forms are completed and where appropriate information is shared with team members.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
• RVN registration
Desirable
Experience of leading a team
• Mentoring experience
Knowledge
• RCVS Code of Conduct
• Confident in the use of IT packages, email and online internet browsers
• RVN
Qualifications
• RVN
Skills & abilities
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Team player
• Highly organised with the ability to multitask, plan and prioritise effectively in accordance with business needs
• Proactive and well organised with an eye for detail
• Ability to manage projects through to completion, meeting deadlines and targets
• Remains calm under pressure
• Problem solving
• Innovative and forward thinking
• Mentoring qualification
Other qualities
• Ability to make decisions that benefit the whole team not individuals.
• Knowledge of organisational restrictions.
Benefits
• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• RCVS, BVNA & VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Wellness program including:
o Employee assistance program
o Eyecare voucher scheme
o Free annual Flu jab
o Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
About us
We are a very well-equipped, RCVS accredited practice acting as a fiercely proactive force in a changing profession. Our drivers are high quality patient care, client education and career development. Come to grow and succeed with us, a practice looking forward to a future as an advanced first opinion practice with a strong ethos of nurturing and utilising our associates’ skills and advancing them with CPD and support from the excellent central team of Linnaeus Veterinary Limited, to make a better world for pets and fulfilled careers for ourselves.
In a rapidly changing profession, we have been proactive in our support for progressing our veterinary nursing team with a structured, industry leading career progression framework. By maximising the skills and qualities of our veterinary nurses and support staff to ensure you can focus on your work and interests as much as possible. With the introduction of Lead RVNs, Schedule 3 theatre lists each week and nurse consulting work at the forefront of our recent progress.
We would love for you to consider joining our highly trained staff and help continuing to create a loving and caring service that goes above and beyond to keep our patients healthy and build for the future of the veterinary profession.
At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.
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