Patient Care Assistant Runcorn, England
Job description
If you are a current Linnaeus Associate, you will need to apply internally. In order to do this, please contact our Talent Acquisition team (details can be found via The Link) and someone will be in touch to discuss and progress your application.
The successful applicant will work as part of the team supporting our specialist disciplines to provide consistently high standards of patient care, as well as ensuring practice standards are maintained to a high quality.
You will be working in a busy environment as part of a large multidisciplinary team, where no two days are the same. Our expectation of you is that you take the highest level of care, have pride in your work and use your initiative in creating a better world for pets.
Our Patient Care Assistants undertake a variety of duties as directed by the Veterinary Surgeons and/or Registered Veterinary Nurses, and duties or responsibilities may include:
- Attending afternoon rounds meeting with charge team, anaesthetists, and other service nurses to discuss cases for the next day
- Attending afternoon rounds with clinicians and inpatient care nurses to discuss inpatients, consultations, and surgeries for the day.
- Ensuring all consult rooms are clean and tidy and fully stocked before consults begin the next day
- Ensuring admittance list is current at both the start and end of each shift
- Use the kennel capacity option on Animana (practice management software) to monitor the inpatient numbers and level of care needed
- Assigning clinician to the patient on admit so that all costing is assigned to the correct discipline
- Completing admission paperwork and patient admissions with owners dealing with their concerns in a compassionate and effective manner
- Assisting in the preparation of the patient for procedures including placing IV lines, taking blood samples, and completing any preoperative tasks required
- Communicating effectively with clinicians, anaesthetists, charge nurses and in patient care team about any emergency requests
- Preparing procedure lists for following day and attend afternoon rounds meeting to discuss the following day
- Processing lab samples
- Accompaning owners when transporting patients from buildings
- Facilitating safe and effective discharges by co-ordinating with the client care team, clinicians and in patient care staff to include discharge times, preparation of discharge instructions, medications and any further appointments required for the patient
- You will be responsible for daily owner updates
- Dispensing medications both for inpatients and repeat prescription requests.
- Be responsible for initiating arrangements for imaging and/or procedures.
- You will work closely with the client care team in the acceptance of emergency referrals.
You will be included in the IPC rota to cover weekend days
This is a full time permanent position, 40 hours per week with hours varying between 10am and 8pm
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
We are a true multidisciplinary referral only hospital with departments in orthopaedic surgery, soft tissue surgery, neurology, internal medicine, oncology, anaesthesia and diagnostic imaging. Each of the clinical disciplines is staffed to European Diplomate or RCVS Specialist standards. The hospital is well equipped and provides excellent inpatient facilities with qualified RVNs and veterinary interns on-site 24/7. Imaging includes computed radiography, fluoroscopy (with digital subtraction and road-mapping), ultrasonography and on-site MRI and CT.
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.
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]
