Lead Nurse

7 days ago

Linnaeus Rutland Veterinary Centre Uppingham, United Kingdom Linnaeus Veterinary Full time £35,360 per year

Job Title: Lead Veterinary Nurse

Reporting to: Clinical Nurse Manager
Location: Uppingham, Rutland
Salary: From £35,360 dependent on experience
Hours: 40 hours per week , 5 days per week - time allocated for admin, potential to do admin remote from home. weekends 1 in 5 Saturday mornings

About the Role

We're looking for a Lead Nurse to join our team at Rutland veterinary centre and would love to hear from you.

We are recruiting for an RVN with 2 years post qualification experience with leadership experience and a certificate, to work alongside the clinical team and develop this practice. We seek an excellent communicator that is highly organised and is comfortable working with autonomy in our busy practice.

The Lead Nurse role is key to the business ability to provide a high level of clinical standards ensuring that patients are managed as effectively as possible from a nursing perspective to support further growth of the practice.

Working enthusiastically with the leadership team, you will demonstrate an excellent work protocol in all nursing duties while taking overall responsibility for a specific area of the practice.

The Lead Nurse would organise and oversee patient flow on a day to day basis to ensure the most effective and efficient approach to the workload. Identifying and improving the efficiency of the patient pathway from admission through to discharge while ensuring that practice policies and group policies are adhered to support the provision of outstanding patient and client care.

You'll work closely with the Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM), the Lead Nurse team will identify areas of training development needs within the nursing team and ensure that nursing team across the business is managed as effectively as possible.

Who we are: 

Rutland Veterinary Centre is a first opinion RVCS accredited veterinary hospital with 5 branches in the surrounding area.  We pride ourselves in offering on-site emergency care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our dedicated team of clinical and non-clinical staff provide high standards of bespoke, affordable care to our patients and our clients.   We are heavily involved in the local community and actively support many local pet charities.  

Benefits include

  • 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave- pro rata

  • RCVS and VDS fees paid

  • External CPD funded

  • 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

  • Wellness program including:

    • Employee assistance program

    • Eyecare voucher scheme

    • Free annual Flu jab

    • Cycle to work scheme

  • Recruitment referral reward scheme  

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. 

Linnaeus is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates. 

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Business Partner, Rebecca at

Salary Value: £35,360 per annum;

Salary Description: salary from, dependent on experience;

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