In patient care RVN

Job Title: In patient Care Registered Veterinary Nurse

Salary: 28000- 30000 per annum pro rata dependent on experience

Location: Veterinary Specialists Scotland

Job Type: permanent part time

Hours: Flexible working 1 week on & 2 weeks off (7x12hr shifts)

About us

Our rapidly expanding state-of-the-art Veterinary Hospital located in Livingston between Edinburgh and Glasgow is looking for an experienced RVN to join our team at Veterinary Specialist Scotland.

Veterinary Specialists Scotland (VSS) is a multi-disciplinary referral hospital that opened in October 2020. The clinic premises have been purpose built to deliver the highest standards of veterinary care while also providing a beautiful and pleasant working environment.

The teams core values are excellence in patient client colleague and referring vet care and we place a strong emphasis on team and collaborative working. We are looking for Veterinary Nurses who share our ethos to help make VSS a supportive stimulating and enjoyable place to practise veterinary medicine and surgery to the highest standard.

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 70000 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.

Dont just take our word for it

To find out more about this vacancy please contact Rebecca Coleman on

Salary Value: 30000 per annum;

Salary Description: Salary up to will be pro rata depending on experience;