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Linnaeus In patient Care Registered Veterinary Nurse in Livingston, United Kingdom
In patient Care Registered Veterinary Nurse
Salary: £30,000 per annum, pro rata
Location: Veterinary Specialists Scotland
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 3 x 10hr shifts per week (Tue, Wed & Thur) & On call & weekends.
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. These include soft tissue, orthopaedics, neurology, internal medicine, emergency and critical care, cardiology, dermatology, and anaesthesia and analgesia. Our hospital is well-equipped with the best technology and equipment including MRI, CT, digital radiography, fluoroscopy, endoscopy and advanced diathermy, and our building has huge potential for future expansion.
Your role and responsibilities
We have an exciting opportunity to join our nursing team as an in-patient care nurse. This candidate will experience a varied and challenging caseload as they work within all ward areas of the hospital. Our in-patient care nurses are responsible for providing all aspects of basic and advanced nursing care, including monitoring and the formulation of nursing care plans, nutrition and assisted feeding techniques, post-operative care of surgical procedures, and recovery from medical procedures. At VSS, we encourage and support patient-friendly practice and place high standards of care at the forefront of everything we do.
Working within our dynamic clinical team, the successful candidates will ideally have a good background in referral work, however this is not essential.
As a member of the Linnaeus family, we are committed to the professional development of our nurses, and therefore provide comprehensive support and resources to help individuals reach their full potential.
Benefits
5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
RCVS and VDS fees paid
External CPD funded
Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programme
Career progression opportunities
Staff discount schemes
Life Assurance
Enhanced Sick Pay
Enhanced Equal Family Leave
E-car salary sacrifice scheme
Employer contribution pension scheme
Wellness programme including:
Employee assistance program
Eyecare voucher scheme
Free annual Flu jab
Cycle to work scheme
Recruitment referral reward scheme
Part of an amazing global family
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.
Don’t just take our word for it
To find out more about this vacancy, please contact Rebecca Coleman at rebecca.coleman@linnaeusgroupco.uk