Head Veterinary Nurse - Small Animal (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Holly House Veterinary Hospital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local veterinary practice in Leeds is seeking a Head Nurse to lead and support a motivated team of veterinary nurses. The successful candidate will ensure high standards of care and provide mentorship within a progressive environment. This role offers a competitive salary up to £35,000 per annum and excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

6.6 weeks annual leave

£500 welcome bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work scheme

CPD allowance with paid leave

Discounted gym membership

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Registered Veterinary Nurse ready to step into a leadership role.
• Experience working with RVNs, students, and VCAs.
• Proactive with a passion for high standards.

Responsibilities

• Guide and grow a motivated nursing team.
• Support and mentor a diverse team of nursing staff.
• Ensure high standards of patient care.

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Patient care

Job description

Overview

Are you a Registered Veterinary Nurse ready to step into a leadership role? This is a brilliant opportunity to join Holly House Vets as our new Head Nurse, where you’ll guide and grow a motivated and close-knit nursing team in a progressive and supportive environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role offering the chance to make a real difference. You’ll support and mentor a nursing team consisting of experienced RVNs, newly qualified RVN's, students and VCA's, with full encouragement to pursue your own areas of clinical interest along the way.

Role Details

This is a hands-on leadership role offering the chance to make a real difference. You’ll support and mentor a nursing team consisting of experienced RVNs, newly qualified RVN's, students and VCA's, with full encouragement to pursue your own areas of clinical interest along the way.

Work Schedule

Working across a five day week (40 hours). There’s no out-of-hours or on-call requirement, allowing you to maintain a healthy balance around your clinical commitments. This is a temporary post for 12 months with the possibility of extending to permanent for the right candidate. This role is based at the main hospital with occasional cover at the branch surgeries when needed.

About the Practice

Conveniently located just off the ring road in north Leeds, near Roundhay Park, our practice boasts excellent transport links to the city centre. Our team comprises 10 vets, 10 RVNs (including our dedicated night nurse team), 6 SVNs, 4 VCAs, and 10 receptionists working to provide 24 hour wrap around care to our patients at our hospital, general practice clinics and exotics only practice. Having been open now for 30 years we have developed a range of annual team events and a full schedule of practice meetings as well as one to one career development and professional coaching available to all staff. Rotas are carefully crafted to consider work life balance and home time and breaks are prioritised. We want to know what you want from your career, and we will help you to make that happen.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced and proactive RVN with a passion for high standards, great teamwork and patient care. Whether you’ve led a team before or are ready to step up, you’ll be supported to make this role your own.

Why Join Us?

We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from -

• Work-life balance

• 6.6 weeks annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays

• Additional holiday entitlement for your birthday

• £500 welcome bonus

• Wellbeing

• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay

• Private Medical Insurance

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing, including discounted gym membership

• Non-accidental injury support

• Development

• £550 CPD allowance with 24 hours paid leave pro rata

• Certificate Support

• Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy

• Access to Vetlexicon - our online encyclopaedia provider

• All our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding

• Infection Prevention and Control Programme

• Quality Improvement Programme

• Professional Memberships

• VDS cover

• RCVS fees

• BVA Membership

• Additional

• Pawsome Benefits - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers

• Pension 5% Employee/3% Employer

• Discounted staff pet care

Up to £35,000 per annum DOE