Job Opportunity: Registered Vet Nurse (preferable but not essential with Equine background)
Location: Lanark, ML11 9SZ
Position: RVN
Type: Full time (permanent)
Clyde Vet Group Equine Hospital is currently seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate, driven RVN with good communication skills to join our existing team of nurses and equine veterinary care assistants. A team player is essential to join a team built
on mutual respect, support and continuous development.
Key Responsibilities:
General Duties - Daily care including mucking out, grooming, feeding and water maintenance. Maintaining hygiene, cleaning stables and managing clinical areas, ensuring safe work environment. Nursing inpatient and outpatients, preparing for surgery, assisting
with veterinary investigations and diagnostic imaging, wound care and educating owners.
Inpatient Care - Nursing sick or injured patients, administering medication and monitoring pain levels.
Clinical and Diagnostic Procedures - Taking blood samples, placing catheters, wound management and bandage changes. Diagnostic imaging including ultrasonography, radiography and scintigraphy. Laboratory work including haematology, biochemistry, blood smears,
faecal analysis, urinalysis, skin scrapes and hair plucks.
Surgical and Anaesthesia Support - Preparing theatre, sterilising instruments and assisting with procedures.
Client communication - Educating owners on horse health, preventative care and post-operative rehabilitation.
Handling - Confident equine handling skills for wide variety of horses including, youngstock, stallions and competition fit horses.
Health and Safety - Monitoring and recognising signs of ill health. Completing health and safety checks of the work area. Must be able to be accountable for own health and safety as lone working involved in role.
Required skills and experience:
Must be a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) with a recognised veterinary nursing degree or diploma. Student RVNs may be considered if they are nearing completion of their studies.
Current or previous Equine RVN experience preferred
Competent in emergency care
Confident handling wide range or equine patients
Ability to work out of hours necessary
Reliable, self-motivated and a strong team player with attention to detail
Ability to relocate or be within 30 minutes of Lanark
Driving License
Benefits:
30 days paid annual leave
Opportunity to buy and sell holidays
Enhanced maternity, adoption, surrogacy and paternity pay
Company sick pay
Pension after 3 months: 5% Employee/3% Employer
Health shield coverage after 3 months
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Cycle to work scheme
Staff discounts
Salary dependant on experience
To Apply or for further details please send CV and covering letter to emma.bone@clydevetgroup.co.uk
Closing date 27th February