Focused RVN - Theatre

Job Title: Theatre Registered Veterinary Nurse

Salary: Starting salary from £30,000 DOE, includes oncall supplement.

Location: Newmarket/Cambridge

Job Type: Permanent, full time

Hours: Monday- Friday with a variety of shifts. Working 1:9 weekends on call for surgical emergencies and a share of week nights on call plus a share of bank holidays shifts through out the year.

About us

Dick White Referrals (DWR) is the largest specialist multi-disciplinary veterinary referral centres in Europe, offering outstanding levels of clinical care in state-of-the-art facilities in our newly expanded hospital.

Our dedicated vets, nurses and nursing assistants, supported by the client care teams

teams, are committed to providing the highest quality surgical and medical care

for pets. Many of our clinicians are nationally or internationally recognised specialists in their field and bring unique experiences to care for pets.

We accept referrals in Anaesthesia, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Dermatology, Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency and Critical Care, Internal Medicine Neurology and Neurosurgery, Oncology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physiotherapy, Soft Tissue Surgery and Dentistry.

We have comprehensive and established clinical and non-clinical programmes for training, development, and CPD.

Visit this page to read about our vison, mission and values. https://www.dickwhitereferrals.com/about-us/our-vision-mission-and-values/

Your role and responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and enthusiastic RVN to join our vibrant Theatre team working in our busy, purpose-built centre that is fully equipped with the surgical equipment and diagnostic facilities commensurate with a flagship specialist veterinary hospital.

You will have excellent all-round nursing skills, with a passion and drive for delivering outstanding patient care. You will be a team player who enjoys working in a supportive working environment, whilst also being able to use your initiative and challenge the status quo. A keen interest in theatre practice and surgical nursing is essential.

Referral nursing experience is not necessary, as a full theatre induction will be provided.

As a theatre nurse you will be involved with patients undergoing complex surgical procedures, from thoracotomies to total hip replacements. As you progress there will also be opportunity to gain experience with interventional cardiac surgeries with the use of fluoroscopy and to be involved with our open heart surgery programme, therefore providing a varied and interesting theatre caseload.

We are keen to help people expand their knowledge in areas that interest them, and to support professional development. As a Theatre Nurse there will be the option for you to develop your skills with extensive in-house opportunities from DWR and Linnaeus alongside support for external CPD.

There is scope to improve leadership abilities by becoming a mentor to our brilliant team of Patient Care Assistants and Student Veterinary Nurses.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure highest level of patient care is provided
• Demonstrate the DWR values of Excellence, Trust and Care in their daily work by maintaining a professional and committed approach.
• Work and communicate effectively with clients and associates.
• Follow Standard Operating Procedures at all times to include but not limited to; clinical tasks, patient restraint, H&S and infection control policies.
• Providing nursing care and preparation for patients undergoing their surgical procedures
• Performing in the circulating and scrubbed assistant roles during surgeries.
• Providing support to the whole surgical team including anaesthesia, there is good opportunity for future development in this area if desired.
• Always striving to improve clinical practice, following the practice’s Vetsafe reporting system.
• Completion of patient safety checklists and recovery care plans.
• Invoicing of surgical procedures.
• Support of SVNs during their departmental rotations.

Hours

• Working an average of 1:9 weekends on call with compensatory time off provided for this. A share of weeknights on call and bank holidays throughout the year.
• 40 hour working week Monday-Friday, 5 x 8 hour shifts or 4 x 10 hour shifts between 8am-7pm, part-time hours would also be considered.

Benefits

As you would expect from the UK’s largest private veterinary referral centre, we offer an inspiring and friendly working environment together with career development opportunities and an excellent package and benefits that include:

• Organised in-house CPD
• RCVS fees paid
• Pension
• Generous leave allowance including birthday leave day
• Access to Private Medical cover
• Personal Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Childcare Vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Part of an amazing global family

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 veterinary health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success, and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.