Lead Veterinary Nurse - Co-ordinator

If you are a current Linnaeus Associate, you will need to apply internally. In order to do this, please contact our Talent Acquisition team (details can be found via The Link) and someone will be in touch to discuss and progress your application.

**Rota:** 42 hours per week with 1:6 Weekends Sat and Sun. There is flexibility on weekly hours

Why Join Us?
As our Lead Veterinary Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Nursing team and ensuring the smooth, day-to-day operations of our hospital. This is more than just a job—it's an opportunity to lead, inspire, and make a real difference in the lives of our patients and their families.

What You’ll Do:
- Lead and Manage: providing strong leadership and fostering a supportive, collaborative environment to your direct reports and the wider teams
- Rota Management: Oversee the planning and coordination of staff schedules, ensuring seamless coverage across the hospital.
- Rotation Excellence: Experience a dynamic work environment as you rotate through surgery, wards, and consults, honing your skills and sharing your expertise.
- Diary Management & Operations: Assist the Hospital Coordinator in managing diaries and booking operations, ensuring everything runs like clockwork.
- Support & Mentorship: With access to comprehensive line manager training, you'll mentor Student Veterinary Nurses (SVNs) and Patient Care Assistants (PCAs), helping them grow and succeed.

-You will report in the Clinical Nursing Manager

**What We Offer:**
- **Leadership Training**: Receive specialized training to excel in your role as a line manager, equipping you to guide and support your team effectively.
- **Professional Growth**: Be part of a progressive, forward-thinking team with access to ongoing development opportunities.
- **Collaborative Environment**: Work closely with the Nurse Leads and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to build strong, positive relationships with your direct reports.

If you're ready to lead with compassion, expertise, and a commitment to excellence, we want to hear from you! Join Village Vet Hampstead and be a part of a community dedicated to delivering top-notch care for our patients.

**Apply today and take the lead in your veterinary nursing career!

**Your role and responsibilities**

Village Vet Hampstead has a new fantastic opportunity for a Lead Veterinary Nurse. In this role, you will be responsible for line managing our Nursing team and overseeing the day-to-day coordination of our hospital. You'll work closely with the nurse leads and SLT team, to develop excellent relationships with your direct reports and ensure high-quality contextual care for our patients. You will be provided with line manager training among other key training to help you support and mentor SVNs and PCAs.

**Responsibilities**

- Maintain a high level of clinical care within the team. Village Vet prides itself on working to a very high standard of care and supports the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme, to which we hold a Hospital accreditation.
- Strive for exceptional levels of client service and satisfaction.
- Work with your team and the wider hospital teams to contribute your skills, efforts, and personal strengths to ensure a harmonious team ethos at all times.
- Receive full support and development to allow you to grow and achieve your full potential.

Village Vet Hampstead is a 24-hour RCVS accredited small animal hospital that provides quality contextual care for its patients and offers out-of-hours and emergency cover to over 32 primary care clinics and a specialist referral clinic in the North London area. It is an amazing place to see a unique caseload, surrounded by like-minded staff who want to provide the very best care.

We have a team of dedicated vets and nurses, supported by our neighbouring referral arm, London Veterinary Specialists (located just across the square). The dynamic team currently consists of over 15 RVNs with varying degrees of experience, over 16 RVNs, 5 student nurses, 6 Pet Care Assistants, and a well-staffed reception, admin, and support staff team.

**Benefits**
- 5 weeks holiday + work 1 bank holiday + Birthday Leave
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- External CPD funded
- Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programs
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Enhanced sickness pay
- Enhanced equal family leave
- E-car salary sacrifice scheme
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
- Wellness program including:
- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme

**About Us**

"To be recognized as an exceptional and trusted provider of primary veterinary care to our patients and clients within the communities that we serve. Every patient, every client, every visit."

Village Vet is a progressive, forward-thinking, premium veterinary group with small and medium-sized Primary Care practices, four large 24-hour hospitals, and a referral center. Village Vet is based in London, Hertfordshire, and Cambridge. We believe in supporting and investing in our staff, investing in our facilities, and ensuring that our clients and their pets receive only the very best, modern first opinion or specialist care. Our staff are motivated and encouraged to gain additional certifications across all levels of employment, and we offer career progression within our group. We have a strong, recognizable brand, and we are looking for people who share our vision and our culture. We have over 400 staff members across our 32 sites and are very proud of our achievements and our reputation in the veterinary profession.

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 Program that is available for everyone.

**Part of an amazing global family**

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. 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.

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, making 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.

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 this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at purvi.kataria@linnaeusgroup.co.uk