Description
Head Veterinary Nurse
•A fantastic practice located in the beautiful West Lothian area
•A fantastic salary up to £36,000!!
•An excellent rota with a great work life balance.
•A great weekend rota of only 1:6!
•Support and develop a fantastic team of nurses
Purovets are looking for an enthusiastic Head Nurse to lead and inspire their close-knit team. As their new Head Nurse, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving our high standards of patient and client care whilst working together alongside your team, performing clinical duties as required.
The nursing team consists of two full time and one part time RVN's, two second year SVN's which are soon to qualify and two first year SVN's. They are lucky to have two RVN clinical coaches who are instrumental in the continuing education of their keen and very able students. We are eager to encourage further nurse led clinics and schedule 3 procedures where appropriate and as our Head Nurse you would be actively involved in promoting learning throughout our team within an open and honest working environment.
This role will include:
•Managerial and clinical work
•Expand client facing clinical aspects of nurse role such as nurse clinics.
•Effectively manage nurse rotas to maximise utilisation of individuals skills and interests.
•Assist in training of our Student Veterinary Nurses and Veterinary Care Assistants.
•Laisse with all roles within the practice to enable smooth running of day-to-day clinical work.
•To attend management meetings, both locally and at an area/regional level, as well as run local nurse team meetings.
•Perform routine performance reviews with all members of nursing team.
•Develop and drive hygiene practices within the surgery.
•Have a proven track record in developing client and patient care particularly improving and driving inpatient care.
•Stock control of both consumables and drugs with an ordering role.
•Management of controlled drugs.
•Effectively manage equipment maintenance and purchasing.
•Developing practice SOPs with an eye on SVN training and PSS assessments.
•We care about your work/life balance
The rota:
•This is ideally a full-time role (40hours) over 4-5 days
•A share in the 1:6 weekends (Saturday 8.30-1.30) with TOIL the following week.
•Whilst Vets Now cover the OOH provision, They do look after some of their more stable in-patients and you would be expected to participate in a 1 in 5 rota
The excellent benefits on offer:
•Work-life balance
•6.8 weeks annual leave
•Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
•Your birthday as a paid day off
•Enhanced family-friendly policies
•Private Medical Insurance
•Cycle to Work scheme
•Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing, including discounted gym membership
•Non-accidental injury support
•£550 CPD allowance with 24 hours paid pro rata- All their Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding
•Infection Prevention and Control Programme
•VDS cover and RCVS fees
J84027/HP
To hear more about this fantastic opportunity, please contact Hannah on 01904 570056 or send your up-to-date CV to H.Pinder@purovets.com
To view all our vacancies, please visit www.purovets.com
