Job Description

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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 purvi.kataria@linnaeusgroup.co.uk.

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 purvi.kataria@linnaeusgroup.co.uk.


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We are proud to be Linnaeus, part of Mars. Linnaeus is a forward-thinking group of highly respected primary care and specialist referral practices in the UK and Ireland. Being family owned and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the largest veterinary company in the world, allows us to focus on advancing the veterinary profession to provide industry-leading pet care and unique career opportunities for our people. Why Linnaeus? - We pride ourselves in offering high-quality excellence of service and clinical care for our clients and their pets - We lead on sustainability and collectively drive positive change for people, pets and the planet - We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing - valuing equity, diversity and inclusion - We support your personal and professional development with best-in-class career frameworks and training programmes. We will empower and support you to grow your career from day one. We team up within our Mars family in partnership for a stronger future. Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We treat each other fairly and equitably and we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our Associates. At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people. If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@linnaeusgroup.co.uk