Job description
Permanent Night Veterinary Nurse - High Wycombe, Berkshire
1. Are you a qualified and RCVS registered veterinary nurse or soon to be?
2. Are you looking for a new night opportunity in Buckinghamshire?
3. Would you like a salary of up to £43,?
We are recruiting on behalf of a small animal referral practice in High Wycombe for a Permanent Night Veterinary Nurse to join their team. This role is full time with shifts of 13 hours from 7:30pm to 8:30am.
Key details
4. Type: Small animal
5. Hours: Full time, shifts of 13 hours from 7:30pm to 8:30am
6. Weekends: None
7. OOH: Yes
8. On-call: None
9. Team: Large team of specialised vets, nurses and non-clinical staff
About the role:
10. The role is ideal for an RVN who is passionate about nursing high dependency patients.
11. The role will include nursing referral patients and also emergency cases. Duties in the role include looking after emergency and evening cases which can vary from orthopaedic, soft tissue, surgical, neurology, internal medicine and critical care
12. The role offers a varied and busy caseload.
13. Whilst the role does involve referral patients, previous referral experience would be an advantage but not essential to the role.
14. The Nurse will also be responsible for Nursing in patients, communicating with the specialists and the owners about the patients. They will look after patients in recovery.
15. They will be involved in patients administrations and discharges
16. The Nurse will be expected to provide a high quality of care to all patients.
About them:
17. State of the art Referral practice
18. Currently going through a period of growth and are expanding the team.
19. Busy practice offering a varied and interesting case load provide orthopaedic, neurology, soft tissue, internal medicine, oncology and cardiology services.
20. They are able to support career development and will encourage post qualification study and can provide opportunities that play to ones strength
21. They are equipped with a wide range of facilities including on site CT and MRI. They offer advanced treatment for Orthopaedic, Neurology, Soft Tissue, Internal Medicine and Oncology cases.
22. All of the team are supported by interns and they all are working closely with their in house rehabilitation department
23. The practice provides a high standard of care and customer service to all its patients and clients.
Team culture:
24. The practice support further qualifications and encourage all members of the nursing team to develop areas of special interest
25. They understand the importance of wellbeing and promote and encourage a good work / life balance.
26. They focus on providing the client with a reassuring, calming and personal experience
27. The team's ethos is to provide a high standard of Veterinary Care.
28. They provide a friendly and supportive working environment
29. They understand the difficulties that the vet industry can face, and they ensure that each member of staff support each other and strive each day to provide a positive and encouraging work environment
About you
30. They are looking for a nurse who has excellent interpersonal skills.
31. They Nurse will be able to use their own initiative and be able to self-motivate.
32. The Nurse will be able to multitask
33. Previous referral experience would be an advantage but not essential to the role.
34. They will be passionate, motivated and have the drive to continue to develop their clinical skills and knowledge
35. They will provide an excellent service to all clients and be able to build rapport easily
Package
36. Salary: Up to £42, per annum, commensurate to experience
37. Holidays: 6.6 weeks annual leave, including bank holidays and birthday off
38. CPD: Generous allowance of £ and 3 days to attend
39. Memberships: RCVS and VDS fees paid
40. Family friendly policies including maternity and paternity
41. Certificate support
42. Workplace pension
43. Further benefits such as retail and gym
44. Employee wellbeing programmes
45. Ongoing learning and development platforms available
46. Career progression opportunities
47. Cycle to work scheme
48. Free uniform
Must haves:
49. RCVS registered and qualified or soon to be
50. Possess the right to work in the United Kingdom
51. Have excellent verbal and written communication skills