Patient Care Assistant

The role of a Patient Care Assistant is to support the nursing and wider practice team in achieving the highest standards of care. The Patient Care Assistant role will involve working in a variety of areas within the practice to support the team. 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.
- 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 to include ward and isolation accommodation.
- In-patient care to include exercising, feeding, and grooming of hospitalized patients.
- Assisting with laboratory diagnostic techniques to include preparation 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.

We would love to hear from individuals who are keen to learn new skills to the full in a supportive environment. This role is for a 40hour week, with a rotating rota moving through various departments.

**Benefits**
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- RCVS & 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
- 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**

Abbey House is a high-quality, busy 24/7 Tier 3 Hospital in West Yorkshire. We are supported by five branch clinics. We are passionate about supporting each other, quality, clinical excellence and patient and client care. We are also proud of our commitment to sustainability and hold our Investors in the Environment Bronze award.

We are a large, friendly, welcoming team that enjoys bringing fun into the workplace. Our Colleague Council organises regular events and have made an exciting Engagement Action Plan together as a team. We are also working on our well-being agenda, with many trained Mental Health First Aiders on-site.

Our facilities and equipment are excellent and include:

- An amazing team of supportive, dedicated, caring professionals
- Full imaging suite including Xray, multiple ultrasound scanners, onsite CT and visiting MRI
- 4 theatres with a dedicated surgical nursing team and certificate holder-led service
- Dental suite with X-ray
- Rigid/flexible endoscopy including laparoscopy
- Excellent in-patient facilities with separate dog/cat/exotic and day/long stay wards plus ICU and onsite lab with dedicated technician (Haem/biochem/coags/EPOC)
- Separate dog/cat waiting areas and 7 consult rooms.

**Part of an amazing global family**

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. 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.

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**.