Registered Veterinary Nurse

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Job Title: Referral RVN

Location: Wear Referrals, TS21 2ES

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

We are currently looking for an RVN to join our day team on a full time basis

We pride ourselves on being a very friendly, supportive and approachable team.

As part of Linnaeus, we are proud to be able to share with you endless possibilities for development and learning.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The hospital is staffed by 63 highly skilled RVN's 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to provide high level referral and ECC care to our patients. The successful individual will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and skillset in all aspects of referral veterinary nursing with support from our discipline-specific nurses.

Daily duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing gold standard care to both inpatients and day patients
• Patientcare and handovers; liaising with clinician and nurse teams
• Supporting patients under sedation and general anaesthesia during diagnostic and surgical procedures
• Supporting patients during advanced imaging such as ultrasound, CT, MRI & Fluoroscopy
  
  

We place great emphasis on working as a team who offer high level of support and professional development in a friendly environment.

If you are looking for an extremely rewarding and fulfilling career this position may be of interest to you.

Potential applicants will need to be effective at time management and communication, and have a desire to grow within the role as well as be passionate about providing the best standard of care to our patients.

Previous referral nursing experience is not essential, as we offer training and support to fully qualified RVNs joining the practice from primary care. We require at least one years worth of post registration experience

Benefits

Wear Referrals provide a competitive salary and CPD allowance along with company sick pay and enhanced parental leave pay.

Including:

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday day off
• Payment of professional RCVS registration & VDS fees
• External CPD funded with 4% salary CPD allowance plus CPD leave
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
• Career progression opportunities
• Enhance sick pay
• Enhanced Equal Family Leave
• Life assurance
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Health care and purchasing scheme
• Staff discount for your own pet’s treatment
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellness program including free annual flu jab, employee assistance program
• Uniform, shoe allowance and free onsite parking also included
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
  
  

We pride ourselves on being a leading training practice, dedicated to developing talent and promoting from within wherever possible. We offer real opportunities to develop your nursing career through clinical specialism or managerial progression as part of the leading UK veterinary referral chain.

Part of an amazing global family

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success, and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

Job Title: Referral RVN

Location: Wear Referrals, TS21 2ES

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Night position, 4 on 8 off rolling rota pattern

About Us

A night RVN position has become available at Wear Referrals, TS21 2ES. At Wear Referrals, our top priority is to provide outstanding specialist care to our patients.

We pride ourselves on being a very friendly, supportive and approachable team. With a team of 63 RVN across the hospital, we are looking for an additional night nurse to join the team.

We have a team of 14 RVN's, 2 SVN's & 1 PCA working on the night team rolling rota pattern, with a Veterinary Surgeon working alongside the team each evening.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing gold standard care to both inpatients and primary care emergency patients
• Patientcare and handovers; liaising with clinician and nurse teams
• Supporting patients under sedation and general anaesthesia during diagnostic and surgical procedures
  
  

We place great emphasis on working as a team who offer high level of support and professional development in a friendly environment.

If you are looking for an extremely rewarding and fulfilling career this position may be of interest to you.

Potential applicants will need to be effective at time management and communication, and have a desire to grow within the role as well as be passionate about providing the best standard of care to our patients.

Previous referral nursing experience is not essential, as we offer training and support to fully qualified RVNs joining the hospital from primary care. We do however require a minimum of post registration experience.

Benefits

Wear Referrals provide a competitive salary and CPD allowance along with company sick pay and enhanced parental leave pay.

Including:

• Working pattern of 4 shifts on, 8 off
• Generous holiday allowance plus your birthday day of
• Payment of professional RCVS registration & VDS fees
• External CPD funded allowance plus CPD leave
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
• Career progression opportunities
• Enhance sick pay
• Enhanced Equal Family Leave
• Life assurance
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Health care and purchasing scheme
• Staff discount for your own pet’s treatment
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellness program including free annual flu jab, employee assistance program
• Uniform, shoe allowance and free onsite parking also included
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
  
  

We pride ourselves on being a leading training practice, dedicated to developing talent and promoting from within wherever possible. We offer real opportunities to develop your nursing career through clinical specialism or managerial progression as part of the leading UK veterinary referral chain.

Part of an amazing global family

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success, and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to Rebecca Coleman at [email protected]