Professional veterinary recruitment

Permanent Veterinary Nurse - Belfast, County Antrim

• Are you a qualified and RCVS registered veterinary nurse or soon to be?
• Are you looking for a new role in Belfast?

We are recruiting on behalf of a small animal practice in Belfast, County Antrim for a Permanent Veterinary Nurse to join their team.

This is a full time for 40 hours per week on an 8-week rolling rota, along with 1 in 4 weekends and a share of the OOH rota. There will be time off lieu for weekends and OOH work.

Key details

• Type: Small animal
• Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week, 8-week rolling rota
• Weekends: 1 in 4 weekends
• OOH: On a rota
• TOIL: For weekends and OOH work
• On-call: None
• Team: 9 vets, 13 RVNs, 3 SVNs a large support team

The role:

• This role is ideal for a motivated and ambitious nurse who would like to make a difference and share and promote new ideas.
• The role will include and offers wide variety of duties and cases including patient nursing, ECC nursing, nurse consultations, theatre work, triaging patients, blood samples, anaesthesia work, radiography and lab work, reception work where required and maintaining health and safety protocols.
• The RVN will be expected to be dedicated to providing a high standard of patient care and be able to work well as part of a team whilst establishing excellent working relationships with clients.
• The role offers flexible work patterns to suit around lifestyle, school runs and school holidays.

About them:

• Established Small Animal Practice
• They are fully equipped offering state of the art facilities and veterinary services including a imaging suit incorporating a CT scanner, radiography, ultrasonography, endoscopy and MRI. They provide top of the range monitoring equipment and provide a range of dental equipment and dental x-ray.
• Due to the high level of equipment that they provide they are able to offer specialists etc surgeries and laparoscopic surgeries.
• They have a supportive team of 9 Vets, 13 Nurses some of whom are certificate holding Surgeons.
• They offer a great work-life balance and provide support to one another as a team.
• The practice provides a high standard of care and customer service to all its patients and clients.

Team culture:

• They enjoy social outings together and have 3 or 4 team events each year. They value the importance of team building.
• They offer a supportive and friendly culture. They encourage and support areas of special interest.
• They understand the difficulties that the vet industry can face, and they ensure that each member of staff support each other and strive each day to provide a positive and encouraging work environment.

About you:

• The Nurse will enjoy all aspects of the nursing.
• The Nurse will have great communication skills and organisational skills and be able to work independently and also as part of a team.
• They will provide an excellent service to all clients and be able to build rapport easily.

Package

• Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum commensurate to experience
• Holidays: 7 weeks annual leave, including bank holidays and birthday off
• CPD: Generous allowance of £500 with 2 days to attend
• Memberships: RCVS and VDS fees paid
• Family friendly policies including maternity and paternity
• Private medical insurance
• Certificate support
• Workplace pension
• Further benefits such as retail and gym
• Employee wellbeing programmes
• Ongoing learning and development platforms available
• Career progression opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free uniform

Must haves:

• RCVS registered and qualified or soon to be
• Possess the right to work in the United Kingdom
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

What happens next?

CLICK APPLY NOW or if you have any pre-application questions or if this role is not quite right for you, please contact the Vet Seekers team (details below) to discuss your veterinary career aspirations further.

T: 0333 014 7374

E: hello@vetseekers.co.uk

W: www.vetseekers.co.uk

Please quote job reference: 39251

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