Rotating Rvn

Posted on 08/02/2024

Rotating Nurse

Blaise Veterinary Referrals

Up to £34,000pa DOE plus benefits, and up to £5000 relocation allowance:

Building the foundations of a sustainable career:

At IVC Evidensia, we have over 100 referral sites that have joined our UK & Ireland network over the years.

Blaise Veterinary Referral Hospital is our first Multidisciplinary Specialist Referral Site that we have built from the ground up. This creates a unique opportunity for you to be a part of our journey from the very beginning.

Situated in Longbridge, Birmingham, it is one of the largest, multi-disciplinary referral hospitals in the UK and has the capacity to treat up to 10,000 pets per year.

Sustainability has been a key priority for us, and we have included several green and wellbeing initiatives in the hospital in line with our Positive Pawprint strategy across the group.

We provide specialist led multi-discipline veterinary referrals and a 24-hour emergency care service for pet owners across the Midlands. The site has easy access from the A38 through Longbridge and is part of the West Longbridge regeneration project.

Blaise has been designed to ensure that an open plan collegiate working environment is created to support the positive and supportive culture that is integral to us.

Joining a team, you are proud to be a part of:

We encourage all our nurses to work collaboratively and with flexibility to help all services, and ensure the highest possible standards of care are achieved.

Our Rotating Nurse role is a varied clinical role working in the following services at Blaise:

• Wards
• Surgery
• Anaesthesia
• ECC (inc. ICU)
• Medicine (inc. Oncology & Cardiology)
• Imaging (inc. CT & MRI)
• Neurology
• Emergency (our onsite Vets Now service)

Our Rotating Nurses deal with patients from admit until discharge, this will include patients who present as urgent referral cases and include inter-disciplinary transfers from other services within the hospital.

Within this role, our nurses will work to support our Specialist teams to deliver excellent levels of care to their patients.

All of our nurses are expected to work to the best possible standards adopting an open and supportive team approach and using excellent communication skills.

We pride ourselves on our culture at Blaise and our welcoming, knowledgeable team will be here to support you every step of the way.

Relevant experience and personal attributes:

• You must be a Registered Veterinary Nurse.
• Any further qualifications would be beneficial, but these are not essential.
• A keen interest in working towards clinical excellence in a multidiscipline referral hospital.
• Previous experience in a referral hospital is desirable, but not essential. However, you must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical knowledge and practical competence.
• Commitment to professionalism, integrity and ethical standards.
• Commitment to the prioritisation of animal welfare, with the desire to provide the highest standard of patient care.
• Positive outlook with confidence and belief in own abilities.

Working pattern:

This is a full-time role within our Rotating Nurse team, 40hrs/week.

We work on a 13 week rotation, spending one week at a time on a set shift time on the same service for that week.

Shift times are 10hrs in length and start between 7am-11am.

Across the 13 weeks we have a weekend rota which covers 1 x full weekend and 1 x Sunday only, both with equivalent time off in lieu.

We have a separate OOHs team, so there are no planned nights or on-call with this position.

Because our employees matter:

We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business, and investing in our people, teams and hospitals is at the heart of what we do.

In addition to a competitive base salary up to £34,000pa in line with your level of experience, you will benefit from

• Up to £5000 relocation allowance

- £1125pa CPD Allowance

• Pension
• Private medical insurance
• 7.2 weeks holiday per year
• Birthday leave
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Staff pet health club
• Discounted Pet Treatment at IVC Practices
• Shopping Discounts a wide range of discounts available with many retailers, restaurants, gyms and other participating companies.
• Wellbeing Centre
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme

Any questions before applying?:

Helen Paddison:

Talent Partner - Referral Nurses

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