Neurology Service Rvn

**Location**:
Delamere House, Ashville Point, Sutton Weaver, Runcorn

Hours:
Full time

Practice:
Northwest Veterinary Specialists

**Job Type**: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week, one weekend day every 4 weeks.

**Your role **and** **responsibilities**

Job Purpose: The Neurology Service Co-ordinator will work proactively within the neurology team to ensure the smooth and efficient running of all aspects of the service.

Key Responsibilities:

- Attend early morning case planning meeting with charge team, anaesthetists and other service nurses to discuss cases for the day
- Attend morning rounds with neurology clinicians and inpatient care nurses to discuss inpatients, consultations and surgeries for the day.
- Co-ordinate all appropriate procedures working with the clinicians and charge nurses to enable the smooth and efficient running of the day.
- Complete admission paperwork and patient admissions with owners dealing with their concerns in a compassionate and effective manner
- Prepare patient for procedures including placing IV lines, taking blood samples and completing any preoperative tasks required
- Assist clinicians with clinical examinations, monitoring sedation or anaesthetics when required as well as scrubbing into surgery when needed (dependant on experience)
- Communicate effectively with clinicians, anaesthetists, charge nurses and in patient care team about any emergency requests
- Triage emergency patients on arrival
- Prepare procedure lists for following day and attend afternoon rounds meeting to discuss the following day
- Facilitate 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
- You will be responsible for owner updates confidently communicating information about their pet

**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**

Northwest Veterinary Specialists, formerly Northwest Surgeons, established in 2003, grew from a family run business to become one of the Northwest's leading orthopaedic referral hospitals. Following the introduction of Internal Medicine in 2009, Northwest Veterinary Specialists evolved into a Multi-Discipline Veterinary Hospital.

We are situated in a purpose-built multi-discipline Veterinary Hospital offering 24 hour in-patient care facilities with a qualified clinical team, located just off Junction 12 of the M56.
At Northwest Veterinary Specialists, we aim to enhance the lives of our patients by providing effective, appropriate surgical and medical solutions when specialist input is required from our growing Discipline teams, which now include a wide range of services including neurology, orthopaedic, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, diagnostic imaging, physiotherapy, anaesthesia and oncology.

**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 best - caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success and 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.

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.