Welcome to Wanstead Hospital! We're looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Veterinary Nurse with a passion for delivering exceptional patient care, supporting colleagues, and driving clinical excellence. You will be confident in emergency and critical care nursing, anaesthesia, and leadership, while helping to maintain high clinical standards across the practice.
About your new role!
Our ideal candidate is someone who naturally brings a sense of stability to the team. You'll be confident making decisions, supporting your colleagues and creating a positive environment where everyone feels encouraged to do their best. You'll also mentor your team, helping them develop their skills and confidence, while working closely alongside our Veterinary Surgeons to ensure the Hospital continues to thrive.
Fully equipped consulting rooms, a spacious prep and theatre area, dedicated intensive care space and comprehensive in-house laboratory team you will have everything you need to provide our patients with the very best care. You will also have access to a dedicated colleague rest area for those all-important lunch breaks.
This is a full-time role with an average of 40 hours per week. Your rota will include a 1:6 weekend rotation and up to 3 bank holidays per year.
As senior branch RVN some of your duties will include:
- Delivering outstanding nursing care and ensuring the highest standards of patient welfare across all areas of the practice.
- Confidently nursing emergency and critical care patients, including unstable anaesthetics, triage, blood pressure monitoring, blood transfusions, chest drains and jugular catheter management.
- Assisting veterinary surgeons during consultations, surgery and diagnostics, making full use of Schedule 3 nursing skills.
- Leading and supporting the nursing team, acting as a role model and providing guidance to students and new starters as a Clinical Supervisor.
- Coordinating and delivering in-house training and CPD, including emergency crash drills and clinical protocols.
- Maintaining and auditing clinical equipment, controlled drugs, crash trolley readiness, in-house laboratory analysers and clinical documentation to ensure compliance and best practice.
- Supporting the day-to-day running of the hospital, including weekend and ad-hoc Charge Nurse duties, contributing to leadership meetings and helping to maintain excellent client care across reception and clinical teams.
- Demonstrating excellent organisation, communication and teamwork, with a proactive approach to continuous improvement and quality assurance.
Wanstead itself is on the outskirts of urban Essex but is close enough to rural life for that countryside relief. Transport links into London do not get better than a short walk to a Central Line tube station!
Please be aware there is no on-site parking available and public transport is advised.
Now let’s get to the nitty gritty, here is what we offer you:
The salary band for this role inclusive of weekend rotation is £35,000 to £39,000 (FTE) depending on experience and allowing room for growth within the role.
A little snippet of the benefits you will receive as a Goddard Senior RVN:
- 6.6 weeks annual leave including bank holidays
- CPD budget every year plus up to 2 days' paid CPD leave
- Paid 30-minute lunch breaks
-The opportunity to join our private medical healthcare scheme at a reduced rate, plus medical cashback incentives
If you're looking for a role where you'll be trusted to lead, supported to grow and genuinely make a difference to your team, patients and clients every day, we'd love to hear from you. Click Apply and your application will be with our Recruitment Manager, Ashley, in less than 60 seconds. If you'd prefer an informal chat first, feel free to email Ashley directly at ahutchinson@goddardvetgroup.co.uk
Benefits for this role include
- 6.6 weeks annual leave including bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time)
- 2 days paid CPD leave every year (pro-rata if part-time)
- Relocation assistance (where applicable)
- Generous colleague introduction reward (for the introduction of vets and RVN’s)
- Paid 30-minute lunch breaks
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
- RCVS and BVNA fees covered
- The opportunity to join our private medical insurance scheme at a reduced rate, as well as a medical cashback plan involving refunds on many routine medical costs such as dental care, physiotherapy, optician, chiropractic fees, and more
- Shopping discounts
- Generous colleague discounts
- Petplan 20% colleague discount
About us
In 2022, we celebrated our 70th anniversary and now have 46 branches, three hospitals and our own nurse training college. We value all of our colleagues, and our forward-looking approach means we have introduced a Colleague Forum to listen to our peers’ views, as well as monthly Town Hall meetings with our board of directors communicating real time updates and taking polls with live Q&As to ensure we’re making the right, collaborative decisions for our people. All our senior managers are mental health first aid trained and we offer Wellness plans for all new starters.
If you can see yourself in this role press apply now, and within 60 seconds your application will be with our recruitment manager Rose. Alternatively, please feel free to email her directly at rstanton@goddardvetgroup.co.uk for any other queries or to simply arrange a call and have a chat about other opportunities!