Lead Registered Veterinary Nurse - Clinical

Job Title: Lead Registered Veterinary Nurse - Clinical

Salary: £33,000 per annum

Location: Cinque Ports Vets, Kingsnorth
Job type: Permanent

Hours: 40.78 hours per week, 2 in 9 Saturday shifts (one as TOIL)

Your role and responsibilities

We're looking for a pro--active and experienced nurse who loves theatre and shares our passion for incredible standards of care with a gentle, kind and empathetic nature.

You will work closely with the Clinical Nurse Manager and other lead nurses to implement, and continually improve, a procedure plan that supports efficiency and an excellent patient journey.
You'll support the team to undertake tasks such as consistent ASA scoring, completion of a surgical safety checklist and the introduction of lower flow anaesthesia as standard.

As part of our aim fully utilise our nurses and patient care assistants, you'll be developing team knowledge and roles within theatre, including encouraging appropriate CPD completion.

You will also be responsible for performing regular audits (including a review of Halo reporting where appropriate), share the results with the practice senior leadership team and make changes where appropriate.

Benefits include

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• RCVS and VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• 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
• Wellness program including:
  • Employee assistance program
  • Eyecare voucher scheme
  • Free annual Flu jab
  • Cycle to work scheme

About us

At Cinque Ports we do things a little differently. We asked some of our fabulous nurse team what their favourite things are about working at Cinque Ports:

"We use multi-modal analgesia with pain scores. We even use local anaesthetic for our neutering's as standard."

"Our standard of care is on a referral centre level, but we are a close knit team with a family feel and no out of hours"

"We have the time to spend with those nervous patients, we use lots of social clinics, we use fear free handing and chemical restraint where necessary and we never, ever scruff cats! "

"It's the little things like having a calm, quiet, cat waiting area - cat ward. The cats are never anywhere near any dogs and there are plenty of cat castles, roomy kennels and lots of Pet Remedy"

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Specialist Purvi at [email protected]

Salary Value:£32,000 per annum;

Salary Description: DOE;