veterinary technician Staffordshire
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.
Night Registered Veterinary Nurse
Location: West Midlands Referrals
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 7 nights on 14 nights off
Salary: From £28,000 depending on experience, plus OOH supplement
About us
West Midlands Veterinary Referrals is a state-of-art veterinary hospital offering small animal surgical referral services. The award-winning hospital welcomes a wide range of orthopaedic, spinal and soft tissue surgical cases, and is proud to have been awarded the ISFM Cat friendly silver award and the IIE bronze award for sustainability.
West Midlands Referrals have an exciting position available for a night nurse to expand our current night service. This role would entail lone working in the Practice with phone support from our Veterinary Clinicians where needed. We are looking for someone that would be able to offer excellent care to our inpatients as well as keeping our Practice ticking over by setting up surgical departments for the following day. The successful applicant would need be comfortable working with anaesthesia as well as performing pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative patient care. The position is 7 nights on and 14 nights off. The hours would be 7pm – 8am Monday to Friday morning and 7pm – 8:30am Friday night to Saturday and Sunday morning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform admissions and discharges for patients under our care. Being mindful of GDPR and accuracy of capturing data.
- Undertake all general nursing duties within the Practice and provide assistance to the full Clinical Team when required
- Administer treatment (e.g. injections, medications, fluid therapy, dressing and euthanasia as directed) and dispense medication as instructed by the Veterinary Surgeon all in accordance with professional guidelines and Practice policies.
- Ensure you keep accurate records with regards to medical records, anaesthetic sheets, hospitalisation forms
- Provide exceptional pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative care to all patients in our Practice.
- Keep highly accurate records and audit of controlled drugs as well as being a key holder to the controlled drugs cabinet.
- Report on patient progress to Clients by telephone as needed.
- Carry out full handover of cases to the day staff at the end of shift.
- Ensure any incidents / near misses are reported on Vet Safe before the end of your shift.
Benefits
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- 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
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.
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 Referral Nursing Talent Acquisition Business Partner – Becca Thompson at [email protected]
If you are currently a Linnaeus Associate, please contact the Talent Acquisition team to register your interest, further details can be found on The Link.
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]
