Head Registered Veterinary Nurse- Manchester
- Employer
- CVS (UK) Limited
- Location
- Greater Manchester
- Salary
- Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
- Closing date
- 2 Apr 2021
View more
- Category
- Companion / Small animal
- Sector
- Practice
- Role
- Veterinary Nurse
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-time, Part-time
Job Details
Beech House Veterinary Surgery are looking for a Head Nurse to join their nursing team. Do you relish critical thinking, and having your opinions matter? Do you enjoy stretching yourself, learning advanced skills and mentoring others? If your answer is yes to the above, we want to hear from you!
Here at CVS, we believe in empowering our staff and would welcome any ideas you have which you feel would benefit this role, the team and the practice in general.
Beech House is a modern, small animal veterinary practice on the outskirts of the market town of Radcliffe and Little Lever, a few miles from bustling Manchester’s city centre and International Airport. We provide an excellent service to our clients and offer an excellent work/life balance to our employees. We are a team of long-standing staff, which includes Practice Director, 3 Vets, 2 RVN's, 1 student nurse, 4 PCA's and 5 receptionists.
Patient care is a key focus within our practice. We are a well-equipped clinic with endoscope, ultrasound, in-house blood analysers, digital X-Ray and we carry out orthopaedic procedures. Our theatre is well kitted out with multi-parameter, bair hugger, electrocautery and suction. We have Vets currently working towards imaging certificates and regularly perform ultrasound scans. We also accept internal ultrasound referrals.
You will work alongside the Senior Vet and Practice Director to lead the team and manage the support staff. You will also have access to a wider network within the North region and CVS. Previous experience is essential for this role and previous experience in a similar role is preferred.
This is a full-time position, which includes 1 in 4 weekends - there are no on-call duties. We will also consider flexible working for the right candidate. This is a hands on nursing position and will allow you to be the nurse that you trained to be. We offer dedicated nurse clinics and welcome ideas to develop these further. We encourage colleague development and progression within our practice and CVS and have a dedicated learning platform to fulfil this.
In this position, you will receive:
- A competitive salary of up to £30,000 per annum DOE
- Up to 7 weeks annual leave per year plus Bank Holidays (with our holiday buy and sell scheme)
- Paid professional fees
- Generous CPD allowance/certificate funding
- Pension Scheme
- Industry leading Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave benefit of 10 weeks full & 10 weeks half pay
- You can also get a slice of the profits by joining our Sharesave scheme
- Refer a Friend scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme - our people are our strongest asset
- Discounted staff pet care plan
- Perkbox, offering a variety of staff discounts for retail and entertainment venues across the country
- Other benefits include cycle to work scheme/reduced gym membership/pension/Sharesave and others...
If you share our passion for delivering exceptional client and patient care, are extremely motivated at the thought of working in a progressive practice, leading our experienced nursing team and looking for a new challenge then we would love to hear from you.
For an informal and confidential chat about this role please text/call Laura on – 07880 374377 or to submit an online application, please click Apply Now and upload your CV and covering letter.
Company
CVS (UK) Limited was established in August 1999 to acquire and operate veterinary practices which were well established within their local community and had a reputation for high quality service. It was recognised that the value of these businesses lay in the quality of their staff and the relationship they enjoyed with their existing clients. To build on this CVS provides professional management expertise in the areas of finance, personnel, practice management, Health & Safety etc, thereby relieving the local staff of many administrative tasks, to enable them to concentrate on clinical care.
As the number of acquisitions increases, so does the diversity of operational styles and approaches. These are shared on a regular basis at meetings of all the clinical directors, giving each practice an opportunity to consider alternative approaches to common problems. New initiatives are considered by this group and then fed back to each of their businesses.
Since 2001 CVS has diversified by acquiring two businesses that offer veterinary histopathology and cytology, plus more general veterinary laboratory services. This provides a wealth of experience to the practice division and the profession in general.
A more recent development has been the focus in acquiring practices in close proximity to each other. This enables the group to benefit from certain synergies, and provides an opportunity for internal referrals. Through its support for quality CPD many of the company’s veterinary surgeons have acquired skills of value to their colleagues elsewhere in the group. CVS already employs veterinary Specialists who offer invaluable advice to their colleagues.
Other benefits have also emerged as the company has grown. The use of single suppliers for certain types of product has enabled CVS to get more competitive prices and better support from the manufacturers. Care is taken not to compromise clinical judgment through its selection of products, and this is achieved by having a working party drawn from the Clinical Director team that considers all options and seeks agreement from their colleagues before arriving at a decision.
Further acquisitions are always being considered but care is taken to ensure that each one is compatible with the CVS culture. The key attributes are their location, their current standing in the local community, their overall performance and the willingness of the existing practice team to embrace the CVS approach to business.
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert