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Night Patient Care Assistant
Location: George's Farm, West Buckland, Wellington Practice: Cave Veterinary Specialists Practice Details
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Cave is a multidisciplinary referral hospital located in the South West offering neurology, oncology, internal medicine, surgery, cardiology, dermatology and anaesthesia referrals.
We are so proud of the team and culture that we have, working closely together to provide support to referring Veterinary Surgeons and high quality, contextualised care for patients in the South West.
Cave is lucky to have state of the art equipment in order to support the diagnosis and treatment of the patients as well as a highly skilled and knowledgeable team.
The patient care assistant role is to support the Nurse and Clinician teams with the care of patients as well as maintenance of the clinical areas.
Cave currently has a team of 9 PCA's who's role is pivotal in delivering quality care to the patients that enter our doors.
Specifically, a night PCA supports the night team with care of the patients. They are 12hour shifts with a 7 night on, 7 night off rotation. This includes an hours break. The successful candidate will work alongside two RVN's and another PCA for 5 nights and two RVN's for the 2 nights over the weekend. We also have a twilight RVN Tuesday-Friday 3pm-12am.
There would be a 4 week rotation of days for the successful candidate to enable us to provide the appropriate training, to equip the associate to thrive in their role. This includes inpatient care and maintenance of the wards area, CPR training to support the night team in an emergency situation, assisting with the processing of lab samples, assisting the teams in the clinical area and instrument prep.
Being part of Linnaeus, Cave is supportive and encouraging of development and progression. With the support of the central team, we actively encourage the PCA team to complete the wide array of training opportunities in order to develop knowledge and skillset. This enables us to offer the PCA role as a career. We are also aware that the PCA role is also often a stepping stone into nursing and are keen to provide a great starting block for this.
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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.
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