Registered Veterinary Nurse

The Role
Pride Veterinary Centre are currently on the lookout for Registered Veterinary Nurse to join their team. Medicine is a busy and demanding discipline, yet challenging, exciting, and rewarding. In this role you will work in various areas of the hospital, concentrating mainly on x-ray, ultrasound, CT, and endoscopy. You will require a high level of skills to enable the best care for our patients who are often in need of intensive care in our ICU department. As a Medicine Nurse you will play a diverse role from placing IV catheters, drug calculations/preparation, anaesthesia, and sedation monitoring during procedures, including CVT and endoscopy.
 
It is a busy discipline in which we all support each other’s physical and mental capacity ensuring we are getting the best out of each other. With medicine being so varied, there is always scope to progress and expand your knowledge. This is achieved by sharing practical skill opportunities i.e. placing central lines or anaesthesia of challenging cases along with attending or presenting the occasional short presentation/CPD on chosen subjects. Cases can be discussed within the team, interns, and residents.

The working hours for this role are varied and could be between 8:00am and 6:00pm with one late working until 7:00pm. You will be required to take part in the weekend rota working 1 in 6 full weekends from 7.:45am to 6:00pm, 2 lieu days would be given the following week in exchange for the weekend work. We have a bank holiday rota in place which means our nursing team is required to work 1 or 2 bank holidays a year. There would also be a requirement to take part in the night cover and on-call rota, further information on this would be discussed at the interview. We are happy to consider full-time and part-time applications.
 
The salary for this role is up to £26,633 FTE depending on experience.

About Us
Pride Veterinary Centre offers a range of state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Our diagnostics and treatments are second to none and we have many highly trained and experienced colleagues to ensure that our patients receive the very best treatment.

We strive to deliver world class patient care and our fantastic facilities provide a superb care environment, including 13 consultation rooms, 7 hospital wards, 5 theatres, full advanced imaging suite, 3 ultrasound rooms, an endoscopy suite, hydrotherapy pool, treadmills, and dedicated chemo & radio-iodine treatment rooms define the setting.

Applicant Requirements
Required skills and experience:
•    Registered Veterinary Nurse.
•    Experience of inpatient care.
•    Be able to organise and prioritise.
•    Eager to learn new skills.
•    Hardworking.

Would be good to have….
•    Experience in a busy hospital environment.
•    Experience with urinary catheters, feeding tubes etc.
•    Proven team working skills.
•    Drive to develop your professional knowledge.

Benefits - Subject to Pro Rata:
•    Increasing holiday based on length of service
•    CPD paid days and allowance
•    L&D opportunities through the IVC Evidensia Academy
•    Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay
•    Birthday leave
•    RCVS Membership paid
•    VDS cover
•    Discounted veterinary fees
•    Various discounts including retail & gym memberships
•    Cycle to Work scheme
•    Service-related company sick pay
•    Initiatives focussed on employee wellbeing
•    Career progression opportunities

As a BAME and LGBTQ+ inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

If this position is of interest to you please get in touch.

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