Patient Care Assistant- Ooh

3 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom LINNAEUS VETERINARY LIMITED Full time

**Location**:
52 Commercial Street, Morley, Leeds

Hours:
Full time

Practice:
Abbey House Veterinary Hospital Morley

**Salary**:
£22,500 per annum:
**Overview**

The role of a Patient Care Assistant is to support the nursing and wider practice team in achieving the highest standards of care. The out of hours Patient Care Assistant role will involve working closely with the out of hours team, looking after in patients and providing an excellent emergency service. It will be necessary to accept instruction from a variety of people including Management, Veterinary Surgeons and Registered Veterinary Nurses. Working enthusiastically within the team you will help maintain a happy, efficient, and effective working environment.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Assist with patient handling and restraint.
- Ensuring that all handling and restraint is carried out in a ‘patient friendly’ approach to ensure no unnecessary stress or discomfort to the patient.
- Involvement with handling medications and preparing these for dispensing.
- Prepare and maintain patient accommodation considering the condition and welfare of the patient, environmental enrichment and additional supporting aids as necessary.
- Cleaning and disinfection of patient accommodation and all necessary areas of the practice.
- In-patient care to include exercising, feeding, and grooming of hospitalized patients.
- Assisting with laboratory diagnostic techniques to include preparation and maintenance of equipment, processing samples and packaging for external laboratories.
- Assisting with diagnostic imaging to include maintenance and preparation of equipment and patient preparation and positioning.
- Cleaning, packaging and sterilization of sterile supplies.
- Maintenance of theatre to include preparation of the environment and equipment and cleaning.
- Assist the Veterinary Surgeons, Registered and Student Veterinary Nurses, Reception staff and any other team member who requires support, where and when required.
- Attend and contribute to practice meetings and events.
- Liaising with clients and referring practices to maintain our emergency service/handling incoming calls and taking necessary payments.

We would love to hear from individuals who are keen to learn new skills to the full in a supportive environment. This role is a full time out of hours role that involves shift work.

**Benefits**
- 5 weeks holiday is paid as part of the salary
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced sickness pay
- Enhanced equal family leave
- E-car salary sacrifice scheme
- Employer contribution pension scheme
- Wellness program including:

- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual Flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme

**About us**

Abbey House Veterinary Hospital is based in Morley, seven miles south of Leeds with great train and bus links into the city, as well as easy access to the beautiful Peak District and the city of York less than 1 hour away.

We are a high standard Primary Care and Referral Tier 3 Hospital & Training Practice (proudly Cat Friendly) with four satellite clinics. Our facilities are excellent (4 theatres, separate cat/dog/rabbit wards plus ICU, CT, oncology suite, visiting MRI, scopes including laparoscopy, operating microscope, dental suite with x-ray, high spec internal lab with lab tech) and we have an experienced and supportive nurse leadership team.

We are committed to individual career advancement and can support clinical skills development at all levels, as well as progression into leadership and clinical education roles. We have access to a huge bank of Linnaeus CPD including the AVA accredited anaesthesia, RECOVER, ECC and leadership development.

We are also a friendly, welcoming team that enjoys bringing fun into the workplace. Our Associate council organises regular events and we have made an exciting engagement action plan together. We are also dedicated to promoting a healthy work-life balance and are working on our wellbeing agenda, with eight trained Mental Health First Aiders on-site. We are proud to be working towards our Investors in the environment bronze award.

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