Veterinary Nurse – Emergency and Critical Care Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Grade UE06: £33,025 - £38,083 per annum (based on a 37.5 hour week, pro rata for part time positions)
CMVM / R(D)SVS / Hospital for Small Animals
Part-time: 10-hour rolling shifts worked 4 shifts on, 8 shifts off, which is equivalent to an average of 23.3 hours per week, paid overtime accrued for any additional shift cover
Shift times: 11am-10pm (with 1h unpaid lunch)
Open-ended
Do you wake up in the morning with a spring in your step, wondering what exciting challenges your shift will hold? Do you relish critical thinking, understanding physiology and having your opinions matter? Do you enjoy stretching yourself, learning advanced skills and teaching others?
If so, this job is for you.
The Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a nurse to join our established Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) nursing team here at the Hospital for Small Animals (HfSA) on a rolling rota, 4 shifts on, 8 shifts off. With the recent addition of our Emergency Room and expanding case load, we are looking for candidates who are passionate about providing state-of-the-art nursing for critically ill and emergent patients.
We are open to emergencies 24/7, so part of the role is to support the growing out of hours emergency referrals we see, involving triage, stabilisation and longer term care of our critically ill patients.
We value our team of ECC dedicated nurses highly, offering excellent education and development opportunities and offer a friendly and supportive working atmosphere, with a strong tradition of research and innovation. At our monthly team meetings your opinion matters and we work together to implement progressive positive change.
As part of this role, you will cover the annual leave for your colleagues, accruing paid overtime for all additional hours worked. Successful candidates will be highly motivated to take their career forward by helping us develop and teach critical care nursing within our hospital.
Prior nursing experience in a busy emergency room and/or in a referral hospital is preferred. An advanced diploma in veterinary nursing or advanced certificate in ECC Nursing is useful, as is previous teaching experience.
Staff benefits include:
- Staff discount for pet treatment.
- Amazing onsite perks:
- Staff discount for on-site gym and exercises classes https://www.ed.ac.uk/sport-exercise/gym-memberships
- Free car parking with electric car charging points https://www.ed.ac.uk/transport/driving/ev-charging
- Two on site canteens.
- Cycle to work scheme, on-site bike lockers and showers available. https://www.ed.ac.uk/transport/cycling/getting-a-bike/cycle-to-work
- We have a generous £800/annum external CPD allowance, paid CPD days and abundant free internal CPD for clinical staff.
- No additional on call is required, however you will cover holidays in your pod, accruing paid overtime for any additional hours worked.
- Holiday entitlement of 36 days + 4 days public holiday (pro rata)
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Being an RCVS registered veterinary nurse is essential
- Excellent organisational and communications skills are essential
- Keen dedication to teaching the next generation of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses is a must.
Any questions, please contact our senior ECC nurse, Emily Gorman [email protected]
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
