Patient Care Assistant – Surgical Suite (Veterinary)
Job details
Salary
£18,831 a yearJob type
Full-time
Permanent
Qualifications
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veterinary or animal care: 1 year (Preferred)
Benefits
Pulled from the full job description
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Free flu jabs
Referral programme
Full Job Description
YYour role and responsibilities
The successful applicant will work as part of the Clinical Support Team to provide consistently high standards of patient care and as well as ensuring practice standards are maintained to a high quality.
This position offers an opportunity to gain experience in patient care, as well as developing both your animal-care skills and technical knowledge. You will be working in a busy environment as part of a large surgical suite team where no two days are the same.
Our expectation of you is that take the highest level of care, have pride in your work and use your initiative in creating a better world for pets.
Our Patient Care Assistants undertake a variety of duties as directed by the Veterinary Surgeons and/or Registered Veterinary Nurses, and duties or responsibilities may include:
- Care of in-patients within the wards when working weekends and bank holidays
- Patient restraint
- Provision of high standards of preparation for procedures with the use of checklists, decontamination, sterilisation and preparation of surgical kits and equipment
- Implementation of appropriate infection control measures throughout the surgical suite, to include regular cleaning schedules as per specified area checklists
- To assist with patient preparation for surgery
- To assist in theatre, with working alongside the surgical team.
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
- External CPD funded
- Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced sickness pay
- Enhanced equal family leave
- E-car salary sacrifice scheme
- Employer contribution pension schem
- Wellness program including: Employee assistance program
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- veterinary or animal care: 1 year (preferred)