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Lead Clinical Registered Veterinary Nurse
Location: Unit B, Queen Elizabeth Park, Railton Road, Guildford Practice: Alder Veterinary Practice Salary: £32,000 per annum, Up to, depending on experience Practice Details
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Job Title: Lead Clinical Registered Veterinary Nurse
Salary: Up to £32,000 (D.O.E.)
Location: Alders Veterinary Practice in Guildford
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week, over 5 days. 1 in 5 Saturdays (8:30am - 4:30pm) with time back in during the following week. Shifts include 8am-5pm, 9am-6pm, and 10:30am-7:30pm but open to discussion on shift patterns.
Would you like to join a nursing team that strive to utilise their skills to their maximum potential?
We have a rare opportunity to welcome a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team as a Lead Clinical Nurse, could this be you?
Your roles and responsibilities
We are looking to expand our Nursing team here at Alders with a Lead Clinical Nurse.
After moving into our new premises in January 2022, we have continued to improve the care that we provide to our patients and clients. You will be joining an incredible team who I honestly couldn't be prouder of, and we are excited to look for an additional member! Take a look inside our lovely practice here - Alder Veterinary Practice on Vimeo
We would encourage anyone interested to come and have a little tour! We have a cat ward, dog ward, exotic ward and isolation room. We have an exotic Vet once a week to see our scaly and feathered friends, and we now have our silver ISFM award.
The Lead Clinical Nurse you will possess excellent communication skills to allow effective line management of the team along side our other Lead Nurse. A strong desire to develop nursing talent, through regular appraisals and identifying and organising appropriate learning opportunities as necessary.
We are looking for someone who has an interest in anaesthesia/theatre and Wards to help oversee these areas and always looking to improve our clinical standards, look for ongoing CPD for our team, set up protocols/SOPs and always keeping up to date on best practice and new opportunities.
Benefits
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- RCVS and 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
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
- Wellness program including:
- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual Flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme
About Us
Our Vision -'To be recognised as an exceptional and trusted provider of primary veterinary care to our patients and clients within the communities that we serve. Every patient, every client, every visit.
Alder and Vets is a progressive, forward-thinking, premium veterinary clinic. We believe in supporting and investing in our staff, investing in our facilities, and ensuring that our clients and their pets receive only the very best, modern first opinion care. Our staff are motivated and encouraged to gain additional certifications across all levels of employment and we offer career progression within our group. We are looking for people who share our vision and our culture.
At our specialist clinic, we are proud of our advanced facilities which include. Separate dog, cat & exotic wards, 2 theatres, imaging suite, dental suite, large consult rooms including cat only, digital radiography, endoscopy, ultrasound, and in-house blood analysis and dedicated staff room.
Our team have a wide range of interests including feline medicine, internal medicine, pain management, teaching, surgery, behavioural cases, sustainability, laparoscopy, and ophthalmology with access to peripatetic orthopaedic vets and a visiting cardiologist.
Linnaeus is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse.
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.
If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss further, please get in touch with Paige Suckley at Paige.Suckley@linnaeusgroup.co.uk
Part of an amazing global family
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. 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.
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.
Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all 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 our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
