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Job Title: Patient Care Assistant

Salary: £24,045 per annum

Location: St. Anne's Vets

Job Type: Permanent, full-time

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. 8 hour shifts, either 8am-5pm or 10.30am-7.30pm.

St. Anne's Vets are looking for an enthusiastic Patient Care Assistant (PCA) to join our fantastic team.

Role and responsibilities
PCAs work in all areas of practice, and it will be necessary to accept instruction from a variety of people. You will be responsible for preparing theatre for surgeries, cleaning and maintaining the quality of our instruments, assist with patient care and husbandry, running in-house lab tests, packaging biological samples and assisting with the smooth running of the practice, and much more.

We are a busy practice with ten vets and 15 nurses. The nature of our work can be fast-paced, requiring good prioritisation, a strong initiative and good organisational skills. You will join a team of 2 other Patient Care Assistants. We are a training practice for Student Veterinary Nurses and therefore aim to produce an environment which allows all members of the team to learn from each other.

Duties will also include, but are not limited to:

• Cleaning, disinfection and preparation of patient accommodation.
• Actively maintain the hospital and follow infection control procedures. This will include sterilising and deep cleaning among other duties.
• Assist with reception and client care, including answering the telephone, dealing with enquiries, booking procedures and taking payments.
• Assist Veterinary Surgeons, Veterinary Nurses, and support staff where and when required.
• Work and communicate effectively with colleagues and clients. Demonstrate the ability to be reliable, adaptable, understanding and empathetic.

The ideal candidate will be familiar with working within the veterinary industry and will have previous animal handling experience. However, practical training will be given and the candidate will be expected to actively part-take in structured Patient Care Assistant training programme. An individual mentor will be assigned to support this process.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• Recruitment referral reward scheme
• 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

About Us

For over 70 years, St. Anne's have been Eastbourne's largest veterinary practice. We are RCVS accredited, and our long-standing team is very passionate about our patients' care. Continuity is something our clients appreciate, along with a quality service. We have separate dog, cat, rabbit and isolation wards as well as having a partnership with VetsNow, who run an out-of-hours emergency service from our main surgery.

Salary Value: £24045 per annum;

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]