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Job title: Clinical Nursing Manager
Location: Blythwood Vets
Job Type:
Permanent
Hours: 40 hours/week, plus 1 in 5 weekends, and participation in a on call rota
Salary: £36,000 - £39,000 depending on skills and experience held
Blythwood (part of Linnaeus) are seeking to appoint a Clinical Nursing Manager to join the Senior Leadership Team and support the nurse teams across two sites.
The clinical team bring a variety of experience and a typical day sees an interesting and varied caseload, including routine surgery, some orthopedic cases, dentistry, and a variety of medical cases.
Your role and responsibilities As Clinical Nurse Manager, you will be an advocate for veterinary nursing, leading from the front, creating a culture of continuous improvement, clinical excellence, and development across all four sites. Ensuring quality assurance of nursing care and standard operating procedures within all sites and overseeing the implementation of learning, development for nurses that is aligned to the practice vision for growth.
The Clinical Nurse Manager will also play a key role in the provision of, strategic, professional, and operational leadership for the nursing team with nurse utilisation as a focus for improving services. Providing a nursing voice as part of the Senior Leadership Team to manage and deliver on complex and changing workloads within tight timescales.
Our Nurse Career Framework also supports a competitive salary reflecting skills, and experience held while identifying future goals and opportunities
CPD including advanced qualifications is actively encouraged as this facilitates development of the veterinary nursing teams
What we’re looking for:
- A Registered Veterinary Nurse with a minimum 2 to 3 years in practice experience post RCVS registration and minimum one-year previous leadership/line manager experience.
- Evidence of leadership training or qualifications would be an advantage as would a Clinical Supervisor or Mentoring qualification.
What We Offer
- 5-weeks holiday plus bank holidays and birthday leave
- Relocation support
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- Employer contribution pension scheme
- Life assurance
- E-car salary sacrifice scheme
- Enhanced equal family leave
- Extensive internal and funded external CPD
At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our Associates. We have an experienced 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.
If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch with
Purvi Kataria at
[email protected].
About Us
Blythwood is part of Linnaeus and Mars Veterinary Health, the largest family-owned veterinary company in the world. Being privately owned, we can truly be driven by our purpose, to create a better world, and think long-term as opposed to being focused solely on short-term profits.
At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people. Our Associates are over 6000 strong and empowered to speak up, step up and deliver quality services. You’ll have access to a huge network of specialists, worldwide development opportunities and an easily accessible, comprehensive wellbeing package that prioritises your physical and mental health, allowing you to focus on what you do best – care for pets.
We are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse, we care about you and want you to be authentic, with everything you need to perform at your best. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to achieve our purpose.
All applications with the relevant skills and qualifications will be carefully considered. If you need any support in completing your application or simply want to find out more about Blythwood, Linnaeus or the role please contact our Talent Acquisition team at
[email protected].
