Ooh Team Lead

**Location**:
The Granary, Bunstead Barns, Poles Lane, Hursley, Winchester, Hampshire

Hours:
Full time

Practice:
Anderson Moores Vet Specialists

**Your role and responsibilities**

An exciting vacancy has become available for the OOH Team Leader role (job share).

The OOH Team Lead will ultimately be responsible for the efficient and effective leadership of the OOH nursing team and the OOH nursing assistant (PCA) team.

As OOH Team Lead you will:

- Be responsible for always maintaining high clinical and cleanliness standards.
- Allocate patients to the nursing team.
- Be aware of all inpatients including HDU, Bothy and Isolation, and ensure written handovers are completed for all inpatients.
- Communicate with the intern and on call clinician regarding OOH emergencies.
- Re distribute inpatients and allocate nurses to help with emergencies if necessary, i.e. going into theatre.
- Communicate with the intern regarding inpatient concerns.
- Maintain close communication with the on -call Head Nurse, reporting any concerns or issues.

**Nurse Management**
- Provide effective management to the OOH team.
- Complete yearly appraisals for night staff and quarterly catch-up meetings, dealing with any issues as they arise.
- Ensure the completion of the rota in a timely manner, ensuring the required staffing levels are maintained including arranging cover for annual leave and sick absence.
- Ensure the team take breaks and allocate appropriate times.
- Provide support, induction and training for new members of the team
- Maintain close communication with the Head Nurses to ensure a consistent and effective transition between the day and night teams.
- Encourage a high level of morale amongst staff, setting a good example and encouraging staff to be always positive.
- 3+ years of experience within a busy multi-disciplinary referral practice
- Nurse management or leadership experience.

**Benefits**
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Reimbursement of Pet Insurance fees
- Life Assurance
- Group Pension scheme
- 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**

Since 2006, we’ve been one of the country’s leading veterinary specialist referral hospitals with vets and their teams caring for small animals every day.

Our dedicated vets, nurses and nursing assistants, supported by the administrative teams, are committed to providing the highest quality surgical and medical care for pets. Many of our clinicians are nationally or internationally recognised specialists in their field and bring unique experiences to care for pets.

We accept referrals for Orthopaedic Surgery, Soft Tissue Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Internal Medicine, Dentistry, Cardiology, Anaesthesia, Dermatology, Diagnostic Imaging, Oncology, Physiotherapy as well as Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) and a Pain Clinic.

We have comprehensive and established clinical and non-clinical programmes for training, development and CPD.

You can find us in Hampshire, just south of Winchester, close to the M3 and national and international transport links. We are in a serene countryside setting with state-of-the-art facilities and are available to look after pets 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our vision is to be the south of England’s multidisciplinary veterinary referral hospital of choice, where referring vets, clients and their pets receive the best possible care.

Our mission is to create an inspiring, inclusive, professional environment where the team are empowered to work together to consistently deliver exceptional care and service.

**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**.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. 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 bes