A bit about us
2024 is a big year for us as we turn 200 years young! We are proud of our long standing history in campaigning for a better world for animal welfare. We were the first to introduce a law to protect animals and have been working hard ever since to ensure that all animals can live free from pain and suffering. Through our campaigns we raise standards of care, and awareness of issues, affecting animals today. Our vision is to one day live in a world where all animals are respected and treated with compassion. And that is what we work towards every day.
We are looking for a new Veterinary Nurse, to work within the Clinical team at Manchester Animal Hospital reporting into the Nursing Manager.
1. Working hours: 35 hour week as part of a roster covering variable shifts between the core hours of 7am-10pm. (Either 7am-3pm, 8am-4pm, 10am-6pm or 2pm-10pm)
2. On-site role based at Manchester Animal Hospital
Are you ready to be part of our journey and make a difference?
Whats involved?
3. Emergency and critical care nursing, including primary triage
4. The role is focused on direct medical and surgical patient care, bringing into play your nursing experience in both medical and surgical roles
5. Maintain up to date and accurate clinical records
6. Dispense drugs in accordance with professional guidelines clinic rules
7. Maintaining a high level of clinical hygiene and biosecurity throughout the hospital.
8. Anaesthetic monitoring, perioperative nursing care and theatre practice working in a busy and modern operating theatre suite.
9. Undertake continuing professional and personal development associated with the role
10. Welfare and case work support
This role will work 35 hours per week- on a shift pattern including day, evening, weekends and nights. Please note that this is a fixed term role for a period of 12 months.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits to recognise your contributions at RSPCA.
11. 35 hour week
12. Great Annual Leave benefits - 25 days annual leave on joining increasing each year to a maximum of 31 days (pro rata for part-time)
13. Additional Society day around Christmas.
14. Generous pension scheme
15. Career development through our in-house Learning & Development training
16. Charity worker discounts: Access to hundreds of discounts across many retailers, travel, insurance & cinema tickets.
What a day might look like
Here at RSPCA we know it's a cliche but no two days are the same, we've added a short summary of what a typical day might look like for a Staff Nurse, for a full insight please refer to the attached job description.
Our Veterinary Nurses are integral for the smooth running of the busy hospital, as a Veterinary Nurse you will carry out nursing duties to a unique variety of animal welfare cases predominantly cats, dogs and wildlife species.
The hospital works directly to help animals most in need by supporting the work of the RSPCA's Inspectors, animal centres and branches providing essential veterinary care around the clock and our Veterinary Nurses work on a shared seven hour rota basis.
Final note from us & good luck with your application
We are really lucky that some of our roles attract a high level of interest and for this reason we review applications as they are received, unfortunately on some occasions this means roles may close earlier than advertised; so early submissions are highly recommended.
We do try to give feedback where we can but sometimes due to receiving high levels of applications, this may not always be possible
We recognise that a diverse and inclusive workforce is essential to achieving our core mission. For this reason we actively encourage a wide diversity of applications - in particular from members of minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities - as these candidates are currently under-represented at the RSPCA.
Our mission is to ensure animals have a good life by rescuing and caring for those in need, by advocating on behalf of all animals and by inspiring everyone to treat them with compassion and respect