Clinical Nursing Manager - Senior Leadership role within Practice

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Are you seeking a Senior Nursing role where you can lead and empower a team? Then Moor Cottage based near Bracknell, Berkshire may have the perfect opportunity for you!

For over 50 years, our veterinary practice has been serving the local community of Binfield, Bracknell, by providing quality care for small animals. Being RCVS accredited it allows us to continue to offer the highest quality of clinical care and service, with the combination of excellent staff training and hi-tech equipment and facilities.

Our Facilities Include

• Ophthalmology Room
• In-house pharmacy
• Large central preparation area
• Theatres including Laparoscopic Neutering
• Ultrasound suite
• X-ray and imaging room
• Large reception area
• Separate cat & dog waiting areas to reduce their stress
• Accredited Silver ’ Cat-Friendly Clinic’
• Large car parking area
• Welcoming and friendly team.
  

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for?a full-time Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM) to join our well-established practice with a varied caseload. This role is key to the business’s ability to provide a high level of clinical standards and will include strategic, professional, and operational leadership to the nursing team across the practices and also provide a nursing voice at a senior level.

We see this role as an integral part of the senior leadership team and you will work alongside the Clinical Director to bring your thoughts and ideas to the table and pull together as a collaborative management team driving growth and change within the practice.

Your key responsibilities will be to maintain the practice clinical nursing standards, induction, appraisals, training and maintaining consistency of nursing team skills while linking our nursing team with the wider Linnaeus management infrastructure.

The nursing team is very experienced and we require a confident and ambitious leader to empower and evolve this skilled team, who are keen to develop and increase Schedule 3 work. Working enthusiastically with your team you will help maintain a happy, efficient working environment, whilst ensuring practice policies and group policies are adhered to at all times whilst providing outstanding patient and client care.

Based within easy access of the M4 with designated parking and great commuter links, Moor Cottage is an ideal location. We benefit from fantastic, loyal clients and wonderful patients and have been in the same location for over 50 years.

Weekend working will be required on a shared rota basis.

By joining us and therefore the Linnaeus Group, you will have access to over 150hours of pre-recorded CPD, delivered by our expert clinicians and nurses. All of our nurses receive a robust induction to help you thrive in your new role. On top of this you will have access to modular courses on a variety of topics including our AVA accredited anaesthesia and analgesia modular course.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• RCVS & VDS fees paid
• External CPD funded
• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programmes
• 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.
  

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 Programme which is available for everyone.

Part of an amazing global family

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, that makes 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.

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with our Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist Claire Challinor on 07709 518041 - Claire.Challinor@linnaeusgroup.co.uk