Lead Surgical Nurse

Willows Veterinary Centre & Referral Service; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading veterinary service provider in Solihull seeks a Lead Surgical Nurse to manage and oversee nursing duties and patient flow within the practice. The ideal candidate will be an RVN with leadership experience, excellent communication, and organisational skills, committed to high clinical standards. Benefits include generous holiday, CPD funding, and a wellness program.

Benefits

5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave

RCVS and VDS fees paid

External CPD funded

Career progression opportunities

Life Assurance

Enhanced sickness pay

Qualifications

• 2 years post qualification experience as an RVN.
• Experience in leadership roles within veterinary settings.
• Comfortable managing patient pathways efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Organise and oversee patient flow day-to-day.
• Identify and improve patient pathway efficiencies.
• Support the nursing team through training and management.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Leadership experience

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN)

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Lead Surgical Nurse
Reporting to: Head of Nursing Services
Location: Solihull
Hours: 38 hours per week

Salary - Will be discussed dependent on experience

About the Role

We're looking for a Lead surgical RVN to join our team at Willows Referrals and would love to hear from you.

We are recruiting for an RVN with 2 years post qualification experience with leadership experience. We seek an excellent communicator that is highly organised and is comfortable working with autonomy in our busy hospital.

The Lead Nurse role is key to the business ability to provide a high level of clinical standards ensuring that patients are managed as effectively as possible from a nursing perspective to support further growth of the practice.

Working enthusiastically with the leadership team, you will demonstrate an excellent work protocol in all nursing duties while taking overall responsibility for a specific area of the practice.

The Lead Nurse would organise and oversee patient flow on a day to day basis to ensure the most effective and efficient approach to the workload. Identifying and improving the efficiency of the patient pathway from admission through to discharge while ensuring that practice policies and group policies are adhered to support the provision of outstanding patient and client care.

You'll work closely with the head of nursing services, the Lead Nurse team will identify areas of training development needs within the nursing team and ensure that nursing team across the business is managed as effectively as possible.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• RCVS and 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
• Wellness program including:
  • Employee assistance program
  • Eyecare voucher scheme
  • Free annual Flu jab
  • Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme

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.

Linnaeus is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with our Talent Acquisition Business Partner, Rebecca at [e-mail]