Veterinary Patient Care Assistant Twilight Shifts

5 months ago

Sutton, United Kingdom Linnaeus Full time

Our Patient Care Assistants are an integral part of the team at NWVS. Your role will be supporting our specialist disciplines to provide consistently high standards of patient care, as well as ensuring practice standards are maintained to a high quality.

You will be working in a busy environment as part of a large multidisciplinary team, where no two days are the same. Our expectation of you is that you take the highest level of care, have pride in your work and use your initiative.

Our Patient Care Assistants undertake a variety of duties as directed by the Veterinary Surgeons and/or Registered Veterinary Nurses, and duties or responsibilities may include:

- Caring for inpatients including feeding, grooming and gentle exercise
- Assisting in theatre, which would include cleaning and preparing theatres for surgical procedures, cleaning and sterilising surgical instruments, stocking consumables in preparation areas and assisting theatre staff
- Ensuring all consult rooms are clean and tidy and fully stocked before consults begin the next day
- Ensuring admittance list is current at both the start and end of each shift
- Completing admission paperwork and patient admissions with owners dealing with their concerns in a compassionate and effective manner
- Assisting in the preparation of the patient for procedures including placing IV lines, taking blood samples, and completing any preoperative tasks required
- Communicating effectively with clinicians, anaesthetists, charge nurses and in patient care team about any emergency requests
- Processing lab samples
- Accompanying owners when transporting patients from buildings
- Facilitating safe and effective discharges by co-ordinating with the client care team, clinicians and in patient care staff to include discharge times, preparation of discharge instructions, medications and any further appointments required for the patient
- Dispensing medications both for inpatients and repeat prescription requests.
- Working closely with the client care team in the acceptance of emergency referrals.

You will be included in the IPC rota to cover weekend days

This is a full time permanent position, 40 hours per week, 2pm-10pm Monday to Friday

**Benefits**
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
- 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
- Recruitment referral reward scheme

**About us**

We are a true multidisciplinary referral only hospital with departments in orthopaedic surgery, soft tissue surgery, neurology, internal medicine, oncology, anaesthesia and diagnostic imaging. Each of the clinical disciplines is staffed to European Diplomate or RCVS Specialist standards. The hospital is well equipped and provides excellent inpatient facilities with qualified RVNs and veterinary interns on-site 24/7. Imaging includes computed radiography, fluoroscopy (with digital subtraction and road-mapping), ultrasonography and on-site MRI and CT.

At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.

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