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Veterinary Nurse- Anglesey

Job details
Posting date: 17 April 2024
Salary: £24,000 to £30,000 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 May 2024
Location: Kingsland, Midlands, ll65
Company: Purosearch
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 52631181

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Summary

- Veterinary Nurse
- Fulltime opportunity
- 40 hours a week
- 4 days a week
- Saturday rota
- No OOH's
- A great salary up to £30,000

Purovets have an excellent opportunity for a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join their busy team. Their nursing team help with administration, reception, and cleaning duties as well as:

- Assisting vets during consulting, X-ray, surgery, post-op care/discharge and house visits

•Monitoring anaesthetics
•Conduct Schedule 3 procedures and dental scale and polish
•Take skin scrapes, hair plucks, cytology samples, urine samples, etc and interpret findings
•Take and develop X-rays
•Conduct sterilisation/regular maintenance of practice equipment as appropriate
•Run and maintain the biochemistry, haematology, and coagulation machine
•Provide food and drink for animals as required
•Create and implement care plans for in-patients and update computer records
•Administer flea and worming treatments and implant microchips
•Hold nursing clinics

As a Vet Nurse you will also maintain contact with clients about the animal's well-being after surgery. You will instruct and supervise work experience students/pupils and act as clinical coach after relevant training. You will have a pro-active attitude towards lifelong learning (CPD) and keeping this up to date.
They are a small animal practice. They have been providing services to their loyal client base for over 15 years! Their equipment includes a modern IDEXX in-house laboratory (catalyst and procyte), digital AGFA CR X-ray, colour Doppler ultrasound with ECG, tonopen, and slit lamp.

Their fantastic team comprises 2 full-time vets, with a 3rd vet due to start in autumn, 2.5 veterinary nursing and reception staff, and their Clinical Director who holds a PGCertSAS. The principal vet has a particular interest in small animal surgery and orthopaedics (regularly carrying out TTAs) and holds a PGCertSAS also.

The role includes some fantastic Benefits:
Work life balance
6.6 weeks annual leave
Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
Your birthday as a paid day off
Wellbeing
Enhanced family-friendly policies
Private Medical Insurance
Cycle to Work scheme
Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
Non-accidental injury support
Development
£550 CPD allowance with 24 hours paid pro rata
Certificate support
All our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding
Infection Prevention and Control Programme
Quality Improvement Programme
Professional Memberships
VDS cover
RCVS fees

To apply please contact Hannah on 01904 570056 or email a copy of your up-to-date CV to h.pinder@purovets.com

To view all our vacancies, please visit www.purovets.com

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