Team lead RVN

Job Title: Team Lead Registered Veterinary Nurse

Salary: £35,000-£40,000 per annum DOE

Location: Veterinary Specialists Scotland, Livingston

Job Type:  Permanent

Hours: 40 hour week, including weekends

We are looking for an experienced Veterinary Nurse to join our team in a Team leader role.

Veterinary Specialists Scotland (VSS) is a multi-disciplinary referral hospital at Deer Park, Livingston, close to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

VSS is conveniently located off junction 3 of the M8 motorway, and also accessible via the M9. Close to both Edinburgh and Glasgow, we are also easily reached from Stirling and the Borders.

Overview

As an experienced veterinary nurse in a Team Leader role, you will be critical to the provision and leadership of high standards of client and patient care, this will include strategic and operational leadership across the practice, direct and indirect line management responsibilities, and a nursing voice contributing to site level conversations.

In this role you will be a key member of the nurse leadership team, working collaboratively with the Head of Nursing Services, Clinical leads, Hospital Director, Team Leaders and clinical teams to passionately deliver quality patient care, an unrivalled client experience through teamwork, clear communication and utilisation of your knowledge and skills.

Approximately 80% of your role will be spent undertaking clinical duties, providing support to your clinical teams to deliver an excellent service to patients, to include partaking in the on-call rota as required.

You will ensure that patients are managed effectively from a nursing perspective to support the financial health of the practice.

You will provide direct line management to leadership roles and other allocated members of the nursing team.

You will embrace our culture, with a growth mindset, leading by example with a passion for self-development to support yourself and others.

What kind of person you need to be

You need to be a highly motivated self-starter with:

• The desire to provide the best clinical service to all our patients.
• The ability to work as part of a team and individually.
• An inclination to learn and develop your clinical skills.
• A passion for mentoring and training colleagues.
• The successful candidate will have at least 3 year’s experience in a referral setting and will demonstrate effective scheduling and supportive team leadership skills.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave 
• RCVS and VDS fees paid 
• External CPD funded 
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programme
• Career progression opportunities 
• Staff discount schemes 
• Life Assurance 
• Enhanced Sick Pay 
• Enhanced Equal Family Leave 
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme 
• Employer contribution pension scheme  
• Wellness programme including:  
  • Employee assistance program 
  • Eyecare voucher scheme 
  • Free annual Flu jab 
  • Cycle to work scheme 
• Recruitment referral reward scheme 

Part of an amazing global family

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.