Lead Medicine Registered Veterinary Nurse Livingston, Scotland
Job description
Your role and responsibilities
We have an exciting opportunity available to join the team as the Lead medicine nurse due to expansion of our busy department.
Our medicine team currently consists of a Medicine Team Lead Nurse and 9 medicine nurses. We have specialist veterinary surgeons in internal medicine, cardiology, dermatology, soft tissue, orthopedics, neurology and anesthesia. We work closely alongside the imaging team to perform advanced pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative imaging including radiology, fluoroscopy, CT and MRI.
The successful candidate will have at least 2 year's experience in a referral setting and will demonstrate effective medicine scheduling and supportive team leadership skills.
They will also be confident and competent in monitoring anesthesia for a range of patients for medical procedures, including emergency, critically ill patients and interventional radiography procedures. However, further in house training and support is available where required.
The Lead Medicine Nurse will be responsible for assisting with the efficient and effective leadership of the Medicine nursing team. You will work closely and collaboratively with the Team Leaders and Head of Nursing Services across the practice to ensure the efficient delivery of outstanding patient care within the Medicine department. You will work enthusiastically with the nursing team to help maintain a happy and efficient working environment, whilst ensuring practice and group policies are always adhered to.
This role includes ensuring the provision of high standards of patient and client care, providing performance reviews, training team members, and coordination for all relevant personnel working within the team.
This is a full-time position, working a 40hr week, including weekends (1:7) and share of on-call duties.
Benefits
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- External CPD funded
- Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Access to private healthcare on an opt-in basis
- Subsidised pet care
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced sickness pay
- Enhanced equal family leave
- E-car salary sacrifice scheme
- CPD allowance, with extensive learning and development programs
- Progression and personal development opportunities
- Area for colleague pets with plans to develop a doggy daycare
- 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
Veterinary Specialists, Scotland is a newly established and rapidly expanding, purpose-built, multi-disciplinary referral centre in the heart of Scotland. Based in Livingston, just 20 minutes away from Edinburgh, 40 minutes from Glasgow and 15 minutes from the Edinburgh International Airport, it allows for easy access to cities, or for an escape to the hills and sea.
Since opening in October 2020, we have expanded from 8 to 17 specialists and residency-trained clinicians across seven clinical disciplines. Our building has huge potential for expansion and the clinic is still an exciting work in progress. This is an exciting opportunity to help to establish a new service and to drive its development.
To find out more about this vacancy, please contact [email protected]
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]
