Rota: 40 hour week Monday to Friday 7.30am to 7.30pm 1: 4 Saturdays mornings 9am -12pm hours back as time in lieu Salary: £32,500 per annum We are recruiting for an RVN with experience to work alongside the clinical team and develop this practice for maternity cover. We seek an excellent communicator that is highly organised and is comfortable working with autonomy in a small but busy practice. The Lead Nurse role is key to the business ability to provide a high level of clinical standards ensuring that patients are managed as effectively as possible from a nursing perspective to support further growth of the practice. Working enthusiastically with the Head Vet, you will demonstrate an excellent work protocol in all nursing duties while taking overall responsibility for the practice and communicating with the CNM's and main hospital. The Lead Nurse would organise and oversee patient flow on a day to day basis to ensure the most effective and efficient approach to the workload. Identifying and improving the efficiency of the patient pathway from admission through to discharge while ensuring that practice policies and group policies are adhered to support the provision of outstanding patient and client care. Nursing duties will include nurse consultations, inpatient care, anaesthesia, assisting with procedures and associated peri-operative care. You would also be working with and providing guidance for our Patient Care Assistants and any potential and Student Veterinary Nurses, so a Clinical Coach qualification and a passion for mentoring would also be desirable but not a necessity. **Benefits** + 5 weeks' holiday + bank holidays + 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 + Wellness program including: + Employee assistance programme + Eyecare voucher scheme + Free annual Flu jab + Cycle to work scheme + Childcare vouchers + Recruitment referral reward scheme