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Job Title: Lead Registered Veterinary Nurse-Clinical

Practice: Village Vet (Winchmore Hill)

Location: 2 Station Road, Winchmore Hill, London

Hours: Full time-42 hours/week, including weekends

Salary: Up to £37,275 per annum, depending on experience

At Village Vet, we are excited to offer a £1,000 welcoming bonus incentive for specific roles across the London region. T&Cs apply.* Please, speak to Purvi, our TA specialist for more details.

If you want to advance your career and step into a leadership role, look no further than Village Vet Winchmore Hill as we have a rare and exciting opportunity to join our excellent team!

The Clinical Lead Nurse is key to the business's ability to provide a high level of clinical standards. The Clinical Lead Nurse will ensure that patients are managed as effectively as possible from a nursing perspective to support the delivery of outstanding patient care. Working enthusiastically with your team you will help maintain a happy, efficient working environment whilst providing outstanding patient and client care.

We are looking for a Registered Veterinary Nurse with a minimum of two years post-qualification experience to join our team as a Clinical Lead Nurse and help our practice grow. As an ideal candidate, you would have excellent communication skills, be highly organised, and able to work comfortably with autonomy in a growing hospital.

The role will primarily focus on clinical duties, allowing protected time for leadership and administrative tasks that form part of the role.

Clinical Lead Nurse responsibilities will include:

• Work alongside our Clinical Nurse Manager to maintain, support, and introduce updates to clinical standards in partnership with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Develop protocols and SOPs for specific areas of the practice to ensure a standardized approach and an evidence-based approach to patient care is achieved
• Work with the clinical teams and other lead nurse/s to organise patient flow on a day-to-day basis to ensure the most effective and efficient approach to the workload.
• Identify and improve efficiency of the patient pathway from admission through to discharge
• Line management of a number of direct reports, including regular feedback and coaching and development discussions where needed

About Us

Village Vet Winchmore Hill is a well-established small animal hospital, in North London, conveniently located between Winchmore Hill, Palmers Green and Enfield. We see a varied and interesting caseload including; routine surgery, dentistry, emergency surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, exotic medicine and surgery and a variety of medical cases. RVN support and input is valued and encouraged and we consider the nurse team to be key to the continued success of the business, and therefore ensure the practice is well equipped for our nurse team to be able to provide the best for our clients and their pets. Our nurses are an integral part of each patient’s recovery and rehabilitation, and all nurses have strong input on best nursing care for each patient. Our nurses are encouraged and are fully supported regarding progression and development which is guided by our nursing career framework.

Our Nursing Career Framework is designed to support career progression and development and supports clinically focussed pathways and a people leadership pathway. CPD including advanced qualifications is actively encouraged as this facilitates development of the veterinary nursing teams to ensure the team are fully utilised and support is in place to aid development of leadership skills. Our Nursing Career Framework also supports a competitive salary reflecting skills and experience held, while identifying future goals and opportunities.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday

• Enhanced equal family leave

• Enhanced sickness policy

• RCVS & VDS fees paid

• CPD allowance and allocated CPD days

• Access to an extensive range of clinical and non-clinical learning and development programmes

• Progression & development opportunities

• Staff discount schemes

• Discounts with PetPlan

• Wellness program, including;

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Gym membership discount

• Cycle2Work scheme

• Eye care vouchers

• Flu vaccine voucher

• Recruitment reward scheme

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.

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]

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. For more information, click here https://www.linnaeusgroup.co.uk/about-us/health-and-wellbeing

Interested in learning more about our current Nurse opening and for a confidential conversation, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]

Hours: Full time-42 hours/week, including weekends

Salary: Up to £37,275 per annum, depending on experience

We are proud to be Linnaeus, part of Mars.

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking group of highly respected primary care and specialist referral practices in the UK and Ireland. Being family owned and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the largest veterinary company in the world, allows us to focus on advancing the veterinary profession to provide industry-leading pet care and unique career opportunities for our people.

Why Linnaeus?

-    We pride ourselves in offering high-quality excellence of service and clinical care for our clients and their pets

-    We lead on sustainability and collectively drive positive change for people, pets and the planet

-    We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing – valuing equity, diversity and inclusion

-    We support your personal and professional development with best-in-class career frameworks and training programmes. We will empower and support you to grow your career from day one.

We team up within our Mars family in partnership for a stronger future.

Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We treat each other fairly and equitably and we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our Associates.

At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people.

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button or for more information or please reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]