Twilight Registered Veterinary Nurse

Linnaeus; Livingston; On-site; GBP 23,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading veterinary hospital in Livingston is seeking a Twilight Registered Veterinary Nurse. This part-time role (4pm-2am, 4 on 8 off rotation) involves managing a varied caseload and providing excellent patient care. Candidates will benefit from numerous professional development opportunities and a supportive environment. Additional benefits include 5 weeks holiday, CPD funding, and a wellness program.

Benefits

5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave

RCVS and VDS fees paid

External CPD funded

Career progression opportunities

Life Assurance

Enhanced Sick Pay

Wellness programme including employee assistance

Recruitment referral reward scheme

Qualifications

• Good background in referral work is preferred but not essential.
• Experience in providing high standard of care for hospitalized patients.

Responsibilities

• Join nursing team and manage varied and challenging caseload.
• Assist vets with diagnosis and treatment of complex conditions.

Job description

Job Title: Twilight Registered Veterinary Nurse

Salary: £39,669.79 FTE, £ 22,710.95 pro rata per annum

Location: Veterinary Specialists Scotland

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Part Time - 4pm-2am 4 on 8 off rotation

About us

Our rapidly expanding, state‑of‑the‑art Veterinary Hospital located in Livingston, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, is looking for an experienced RVN to join our team at Veterinary Specialist Scotland.

Veterinary Specialists Scotland (VSS) is a multi‑disciplinary referral hospital that opened in October 2020. The clinic premises have been purpose built to deliver the highest standards of veterinary care, while also providing a beautiful and pleasant working environment.

The team’s core values are excellence in patient, client, colleague, and referring vet care, and we place a strong emphasis on team and collaborative working. We are looking for Veterinary Nurses who share our ethos to help make VSS a supportive, stimulating, and enjoyable place to practise veterinary medicine and surgery to the highest standard.

Your role and responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity to join our nursing team as a Twilight Registered Veterinary nurse. This candidate will experience a varied and challenging caseload as they work within all areas of the hospital. Our nurses provide a high standard of care for our hospitalised patients and assist the vets with the diagnosis and treatment of complex, interesting conditions.

Working within our dynamic clinical team, the successful candidates will ideally have a good background in referral work, however this is not essential.

As a member of the Linnaeus family, we are committed to the professional development of our nurses, and therefore provide comprehensive support and resources to help individuals reach their full potential.

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.

Don’t just take our word for it

To find out more about this vacancy, please contact Rebecca Coleman <[e-mail]>