Job Description

Fantastic Permanent RVN Opportunity - County Durham - SA Hospital (Will Consider 2nd Year Students) SN/14469

Our client are looking to employ a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join their amazing work family (second year students at the end of their training may be considered).

Our client is a small animal training Hospital based in Co Durham with fantastic state of the art modern facilities including laparoscopic equipment, laser therapy, in-house lab, radiography suite and more. They are a supportive team and there is very much a family feel amongst the whole team. They encourage our nurses to carry out additional qualification/ certificates in their areas of interest as career development is something that the practice is very keen to promote and fund. They ask that you are forward thinking and enjoy all aspects of modern day nursing including inpatient care, nurse lead consultations, theatre practice and socialising. The practice prides themselves on providing the highest standard of care and are enrolled onto the RCVS practice standards scheme. Their achievements include 6 outstanding awards in the PSS awards scheme, runners up in the petplan veterinary awards for practice of the year 2018, recently have been awarded the IFSM cat friendly certificate in which they can now proudly say that they are a silver award cat friendly clinic and most recently have been reaccredited as hospital standard in our RCVS practice standards inspection.

*40 hours/ week (rota basis including great mixture of day, out of hours, weekend and bank holiday shifts)

*permanent position

*paid sleeping shifts for out of hours work (adv. 1night/ week)

*5:8 weekends off

*CPD and further career development encouraged and funded

* annual RCVS registration fees paid

*company benefits scheme

*social and team building events

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £18,000.00-£20,000.00 per year

You will be covering all nursing duties where required including assisting in surgery, monitoring anesthetics, taking bloods and x-rays, in patient care, critical care, nursing clinics amongst others. The ideal candidates will be hard working, enthusiastic and down-to-earth with a proactive, positive attitude who thrives with a busy caseload. A confident level of general nursing is required and above all else, you will be passionate and dedicated to providing an outstanding service for our clients and their animals.

If you are interested in this excellent role call Stephen Nicolle on 01291 645 871 or email snicolle@glvets.com