Permanent Registered Veterinary Nurse, Windsor
Type: Small Animal
Location: Windsor, Berkshire
Practice Type: Independent Practice
Services: They provide extensive services and facilities for pet health and wellbeing and ensure they are cared for to the highest standards. Their broad range of experience enables them to deal with most conditions here at the practice, without specialist referral.
Team: Their experienced vet team works across all three of their practices and is supported by a highly skilled nursing team. The practice is also an accredited veterinary nurse training practice which means that their nurses can receive first-class training to maintain the high standards of care that pets require.
Role: They are looking for a Registered Veterinary Nurse who will carry out duties in accordance with the standards and policies set out by the practice and the RCVS.
Hours: All nurses work according to the published rota prepared by the Head Nurse. The rota will include the following shifts across a week and include one hour for lunch unless otherwise specified:
- Dispense – 8.15 am to 6 pm (1.5 hours lunch)
- Theatre – 8 am to 5 pm
- 2nd Ops – 8 am to 5.15 pm
- Kennels – 9.30 am to 6.30 pm
- Recovery – 7.30 am to 4.30 pm
- Night Duty – 4 pm to 10 am
- Weekend – 8 am to 8 am Nurses working night duties or weekends are provided with a duty room and can go to bed but they are still on-call and may be required to give medication or attend to cases during the night. When working a Saturday, the nurse will work the Wednesday night duty, finish at 10 am Thursday morning, and also have Friday off. When working a Sunday, the nurse will be off at 8 am Monday morning, work as usual on Tuesday and Wednesday, work the Thursday night duty, and finish at 10 am Friday morning.
OOHS: The practice works in partnership with VetsNow. From the end of consultations to 9 pm weekdays and 5 pm at weekends the On-Call nurse will take calls from clients worried about their pets and handle them accordingly, which may involve contacting the vet. After this time, all incoming calls will divert to Vets Now. The on-call nurse will be responsible for caring for existing any in-patients.
Candidate:
- Qualified RVN
- Supervisory experience
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Computer literate (experience with Excel and Word)
- Strong organisation and time management skills
- Customer/client focussed
- Numerate
- Enthusiastic
- Team player
- Calm under pressure
The Package:
- The salary on offer is negotiable for the right candidate and the CPD allowance is too, dependent on the benefit to both the practice and the candidate.
Ref: JN -092024-31987
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