Wards Registered Veterinary Nurse

Job Title: RVN- wards based

Salary: Starting at 27k

Location: Calder Vets Dewsbury

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: FT 40hour week, 1:5 weekends, equal share of bank holiday rota

Ward Nurse Responsibilities

This is the perfect position for a Nurse looking to progress in all aspects of in-patient hospital-based nursing. This includes providing patient care for all in-patients across all wards (cat/dog/isolation/ICU/exotic/wildlife), ensure effective ward rounds and handovers are carried out, ensuring effective communication with clients throughout the day and liaising with other departments to ensure smooth flow of patients between disciplines.

The candidate will require experience in in-patient nursing or have a keen interest to develop within this area. You will help to facilitate the efficient and effective management of a varied caseload within the wards including medical and surgical patients, whilst ensuring the delivery of exceptional care to patients.

We are looking for a nurse looking with a desire to focus their knowledge on all aspects of in-patient hospital nursing, protocols, and procedures to ensure the highest standard of care is provided. This role is suited for those that prefer to give hands on care. You would be part of our extensive wards team and responsible for looking after a high level of medical and surgical inpatients.

Expected responsibilities include:

• Working alongside lead hospital nurse, lead hospital vet, clinicians, nurses, and PCAs to provide nursing plans and care for all in-patients

• Ensure precise, efficient, and accurate ward rounds are carried out

• Take responsibility for the management of isolation cases, including educating other members of the nursing team about infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases and barrier nursing

• Work with medical team to ensure all procedures are carried out as required for inpatients

• Engage with discipline specific team meetings to review processes and protocols with a view to progressing and improving where possible

• Ensure the risks of nosocomial infections and cross contamination are minimised by practicing good hygiene – maintenance and completion of infection control check lists in all wards

• Accurate record keeping, especially with regard to kennel sheets, anaesthetic sheets and hospitalisation records

• Carry out maintenance checks and follow up on any faulty/broken equipment

• Work closely with the Team Leaders and CNM’s to plan for the daily case load and highlight any issues or concerns that may arise

• Work with other disciplines to ensure active handovers received for patients coming back to wards following procedures

• Participate in team briefings and daily huddles to ensure effective and efficient communication

• Involvement in diverse cases from routine surgery to intensive care cases

• Involvement in aiding in research and development within the veterinary sector in multiple disciplines, as well as supported self-clinical progression

• Monitoring intensive care patients with access to state-of-the-art monitoring equipment including multiparameters, dedicated wards ultrasound machine for performing FAST scans.

• Engage with training in advanced monitoring techniques including, reading ECG’s, blood gas analysis and performing FAST scans

• Taking responsibility for your patients from admit to discharge including pricing for all treatments and procedures carried out.

• Whilst this role is wards based, there will be an expectation that you can move betweeen surgical and FOH duties if required

Our hospital team consists of dedicated hospital nurses, rotating nurses, student veterinary nurses and patient care assistants who provide 24hour care to our hospitalised patients and work alongside all other departments within the hospital.

The successful candidate must have:

• A love of working within an extremely varied and fast paced environment with a team of like-minded people.
• We are looking for someone who will not only go above and beyond for our patients, but for their colleagues too.
• Experience working in a hospital is beneficial but not essential as comprehensive training from our highly experienced team will be provided.
• Candidates must be qualified RVNs and will be proactive, enthusiastic, approachable, a great team player, able to use their own initiative and self-motivated.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to multi-task with a flexible approach to working are essential. 12 months post qualification is desirable

This is a rewarding role within the ward department providing care and treatment plans to hospitalised patients. You will be working alongside multiple departments, which allows a varied and rewarding nursing role, in a purpose designed ward department with continued development and funding. As a department, we are striving for the best for our patients, and in the development of our nursing team.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave

• RCVS & 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

• Employer contribution pension scheme

• Wellness program including:

  • Employee assistance program

  • Eyecare voucher scheme

  • Free annual Flu jab

  • Cycle to work scheme

• Recruitment referral reward scheme

About us

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.