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Form of workA Twilight Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) position has opened at Paragon Veterinary Referrals, Paragon Park, Wakefield.
This is a full-time position working 40 hours per week 3.30pm-12am, although we can be flexible with this.
Some full night cover will occasionally be required along with a 1-7 Saturday on-call rota.
This is a great opportunity that would suit an RVN who enjoys all aspects of ICU and ward nursing, including triaging patients, managing emergencies, and providing intensive care to canine and feline patients.
The candidate should enjoy working in a busy environment, within a small team.
We are seeking a dedicated, compassionate, and organised RVN with a passion for delivering excellent inpatient care.
Key duties will include:
- Creating and delivering nursing care plans
- Nursing intensive and critical patients
- Performing handover to the teams between shifts
- Working as part of a team
- Teaching and sharing knowledge
- Infection Control
Benefits
- Appealing rota to promote good work/life balance
- 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
Starting salary from £29,000 plus a £2,500 annual OOH supplement.
About us
We are a new state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary referral small animal practice, based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. With our practice being RCVS accredited to Small Animal Veterinary Hospital level, it allows us to provide outstanding levels of care to our patients with a kind and compassionate approach. Our Paragon team is committed to highest quality of care and the excellence of service assuring patients get the best possible treatment.
At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.
We'd love to hear from you so please contact anna.smith@linnaeusgroup.co.uk for more information or an informal chat.
