Hours:

4 day working week with 1 in 3 Saturdays and 1 in 9 Sundays

Weekday early shift - 7:30 am – 5:00 pm

Weekday late shift - 10: 30 am – 8:00 pm

Saturday hours - 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Sunday hours - 9:45 am – 4:00 pm

Your role and responsibilities

Vet 4 Life is looking to recruit a Lead Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) to support our existing team in providing exceptional care to our patients. This is a very exciting time to join Vet 4 Life as we continue to expand the primary care services we offer to our clients and their pets.

You will work as part of our team of vets, registered veterinary nurses, student veterinary nurses, animal care assistants and customer care assistance to coordinate and deliver gold standard patient care and customer service alongside our team.

You will have a good understanding of primary care which, following an induction alongside our team, will allow you to support patients undergoing investigations and treatments into a wide range of primary... care conditions.

You will work closely with the team to establish and deliver effective inpatient care plans.

You will demonstrate excellent customer care and communication skills, allowing you to participate knowledgeably in post-operative client contact, offering guidance and support to owners following their pet's procedure.

Following your successful induction period, you will assist in delivering training to associates within the practice.

You will be encouraged to enhance this growing service by sharing your valuable ideas.

This is a great opportunity for an RVN with a keen interest in primary care to develop

their understanding and practical abilities alongside our experienced team.

This is an exciting opportunity to build upon your interest in primary care in a supported environment with a large and varied caseload.

Benefits
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + a day off on or around your birthday
• RCVS & VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded up to £500/year
• 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

Vet 4 Life is a three-site small animal primary care practice based in Southwest London and Surrey. Our vision is to provide the very best, community-based, professional veterinary care in the Southwest and Surrey, where pets and their owners come first. Our committed veterinary team and well-equipped practices ensure we can tailor to any patient's needs with compassion, care and empathy.

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking partnership of highly respected primary care and referral veterinary practices across the UK and Ireland, comprising some of the best clinicians in the profession.

We are all individual but two important things bring us together; a commitment to excellence in everything we do and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

At Linnaeus we carefully select the practices we partner with to ensure the highest levels of patient care across our group. Together we provide a growing community of like-minded veterinary professionals who are passionate about what they do. We work with different types of practices, in every field of veterinary medicine, including small animal, farm and equine.

We also have our Five Principles which form the foundation of how we do business today and every day and we put these at the centre of every decision we make. This means:
• We are committed to Quality of work and contributions to society.
• We embrace our Responsibility (as individuals and as a company) to act now.
• We base decisions on the Mutuality of benefit to our stakeholders.
• We harness the power of Efficiency to use our resources to maximum effect.
• We have the financial Freedom to make our own decisions, unrestricted by motivations of others
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