Registered Veterinary Nurse

Job description

Our practice is a growing, small animal clinic looking for a fun, happy, caring and super organised Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly team in Dunfermline. You must have a passion for providing excellent preventative healthcare, desire to support and student vet nurses, a love for pushing anaesthesia and analgesia to the highest standards and putting our patients first.

We are an established, RCVS&TP accredited small animal practice located within Pets at Home Dunfermline. Our intimate team are looking for someone to slot right in to our tribe where our patients are priority, our clients needs are met and crucially, someone who will fit with our philosophy: We look out for, and after, each other as colleagues needs come first. When we do that, everything else falls into place.

£30,000- £35,000 full time equivalent salary depending on skills and experience,

• Full time (40hr pw) or Part time role (30hr pw) overtime for holiday cover is available.
• No OOH duties
• We pay all your professional fees
• Company pension

20% off at Pets At Home

About you

• Are you super organised, love a list and great at hitting a deadline?
• Do you want to provide the highest standards of preventative care to support our clients to ensure their pets remain happy and healthy?
• Would you really love to pass on your skills and knowledge to help support the next generation of Veterinary Nurses and Veterinary Care Assistants?
• Do you still love being a Veterinary Nurse on the ground and thrive on getting stuck in?
• Do you hate it when things run behind, but love being the one to get things back on track?
• Do you love anaesthesia and analgesia and want to help us to take it to the next level?

Do you have

• A clinical interest in preventative care, anaesthesia, analgesia, and in-patient care.
• Built good relationships with colleagues and clients alike (even the difficult ones!)
• Helped colleagues develop their skills and turn their challenges around,

If this is you then our team, our clients and our patients would love for you to come and join us so, please read on.

About Us

We are a growing, friendly team situated in Dunfermline, just 25 minutes from Edinburgh. We are looking for a happy, fun and super organised Registered Veterinary Nurse to help us to continue to provide our patients with the highest level of care. Our practice is purpose built, air conditioned and fully equipped with what we need to do a great job each day, including;

• Digital X-ray
• Dental X-ray & CR7 digital processor
• Pulse Oximetry/Capnograhy
• Blood pressure machines
• Surgical theatre
• Cautery
• Recently upgraded ultrasound machine
• In house biochemistry & haematology
• Microscopy

The Role

Work closely with our team (two Vets, practice manager/RVN, one SVN, one veterinary care assistant and one receptionist) to keep everything structured, organised and make sure we hit deadlines.

You will carry out that clinical work you love including preparing and monitoring anaesthetics, caring for our inpatients, nurse clinics, taking blood samples, placing catheters but with the additional opportunity of training and support to carry out dental radiographs, oral assessment and de-scale and polish.

Help student nurses and care assistants develop their skills and champion their successes

Your package

You will be rewarded with a salary of up to £30k - £35k /annum (full time equivalent), 4 weeks holiday + additional bank holiday allocation. We have full time (40hrs) and part time (30hrs) posts available with currently no weekend work, this will be subject to change in the future as the team grows. As we need you at the top of your game every day you will not be required to do any OOH duties.

We will also pay all your professional fees, a company pension and youll get 20% off at Pets At Home too.

If youve read this far, like the sound of our practice then please do get in touch.

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