At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to provide exceptional care for inpatients and assist with emergency cases.
- Company: Rutland House, a busy RCVS accredited veterinary practice with a supportive team.
- Benefits: Enjoy 6 weeks holiday, health cash plan, CPD allowance, and career progression opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible part-time hours with opportunities for additional shifts and a focus on employee wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in animal care while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Must have strong inpatient care skills and a passion for emergency veterinary nursing.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 36000 £ per year.
Rutland House is a very busy, RCVS accredited first opinion and referral practice with a large team of vets, RVNs and ACAs and a dedicated OOH team at the main hospital. We also have 8 branches in the surrounding area. We have an amazing team of nursing staff including ACA's, SVN's, RVN's and Diploma/Certificate holding RVN's. We are currently looking for another outstanding RVN to join our wonderful team.
The Role
We are recruiting for a part time RVN to join our team to assist with our out of hours and hospital caseload. There is the opportunity to pick up further holiday cover shifts if wanted. This role will be a combination of OOH shifts and rotational hospital shifts. The role will include:
- Taking care of inpatients
- Dealing with OOH calls
- Theatre (1st opinion and referral)
- Consulting
- Triage of patients
- Assisting in theatre
- Maintaining high levels of infection control
The Candidate
The ideal candidate will have amazing in-patient care skills, good anaesthesia experience and knowledge and a passion for providing emergency care to a varied case load. Good communication skills and a willingness to teach our wonderful Student Veterinary Nurses is essential.
Hours
32hrs per week, following the below pattern:
- Week 1: Mon - 8:30am - 6:30pm Day, Fri - 8pm - 8am Night
- Week 2: Fri - 8:30am - 6:30pm, Sat - 1pm - 9pm
Bank holidays are a minimum of 1 per year and shared on a rota basis.
Salary and Benefits
- Salary Dependant on experience
- 6 weeks holiday per year including BH's (pro rata)
- In house CPD sessions at the hospital
- Company Pension
- Health Cash plan and Employee Assistance Program
- Enhanced family schemes including maternity and paternity leave
- £600.00 CPD Allowance per annum
- Health plan - wide ranging contributions for health and wellbeing treatments
- RCVS Membership paid, one other membership subscription
- VDS cover
- Enhanced paternity, maternity, adoption, shared parental leave and surrogacy pay
- Discounted veterinary fees
- Offers, discounts and cashback on shopping, travel, entertainment and much more
- Cycle to work scheme
- CPD/training support
- Company sick pay
- Colleague engagement survey
- Annual pay reviews
- Focus on employee wellbeing
- Career progression opportunities
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