Lead Veterinary Nurse – Cat Clinic and Consult

Hours: Full time, 40 hours a week – This can be over 4 or 5 days.

Are you seeking a new opportunity in a thriving practice with an amazing team and plenty of opportunities for growth and development? Keep reading! We’re looking for a Lead Nurse to join our team at Moor Cottage and would love to hear from you.

We are recruiting for an RVN with 2 years post qualification experience with leadership experience to work alongside the clinical team and develop this practice. We seek an excellent communicator that is highly organised and is comfortable working with autonomy in a small but busy practice.

The Lead Nurse role is key to the business ability to provide a high level of clinical standards ensuring that patients are managed as effectively as possible from a nursing perspective to support further growth of the practice.

Working enthusiastically with the Head Vet and Clinical Nurse Manager, you will demonstrate an excellent work protocol in all nursing duties while taking overall responsibility for a specific area of the practice.

The Lead Nurse would organise and oversee patient flow on a day to day basis to ensure the most effective and efficient approach to the workload. Identifying and improving the efficiency of the patient pathway from admission through to discharge while ensuring that practice policies and group policies are adhered to support the provision of outstanding patient and client care.

Nursing duties will include nurse consultations, inpatient care, anaesthesia, assisting with procedures and associated peri-operative care.

You would also be working with and providing guidance for our Patient Care Assistants and any potential and Student Veterinary Nurses, so a Clinical Coach qualification and a passion for mentoring would also be desirable but not a necessity.

You will be working alongside a very experienced client care team, including our Client Care Manager and Practice Manager who is responsible for the non-clinical aspects of running the branch so this role would be ideal for someone who enjoys all aspects of nursing and wants to take further develop leadership skills.

The Nursing Career Framework is designed to support career progression and development and supports clinically focussed pathways and a people leadership pathway.

Our Nurse Career Framework also supports a competitive salary reflecting skills, and experience held while identifying future goals and opportunities

CPD including advanced qualifications is actively encouraged as this facilitates development of the veterinary nursing teams to ensure the team are fully utilised and able to work at the top of their licence.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday

• Enhanced equal family leave

• Enhanced sickness policy

• RCVS & VDS fees paid

• CPD allowance and allocated CPD days

• Access to an extensive range of clinical and non-clinical learning and development programmes

• Progression & development opportunities

• Staff discount schemes

• Discounts with PetPlan

• Wellness program, including;

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Gym membership discount

About Us

Moor Cottage is a progressive, forward-thinking practice, based in Bracknell, Berkshire. We boast a fantastic separate cat clinic with a silver ISFM accreditation and an ever growing nurse consult service. Could you be the nurse to take this to the next level?

We believe in supporting and investing in our staff and facilities, ensuring that our clients and their pets receive only the very best care. Our staff are motivated and encouraged to gain additional qualifications across all levels of employment and we offer a structured programme of career progression within our group.

Our clinicians are well supported by a cohesive team of nurses, students and patients care assistant’s all of which are actively supported in their career development as part of the Linnaeus nursing framework.

We have a diverse and varied caseload, and our facilities are fully equipped to handle the services we provide. Our practice includes digital X-ray and digital dental X-ray services, endoscopy, a wide range of surgical equipment, and modern dental and laboratory equipment.