Patient Care Assistant - Runcorn, United Kingdom - Northwest Veterinary Specialists

Northwest Veterinary Specialists

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Runcorn, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:

Delamere House, Ashville Point, Sutton Weaver, Runcorn

Hours:
Full time

Practice:
Northwest Veterinary Specialists

The successful applicant will work as part of the inpatient care team to provide consistently high standards of patient care, as well as ensuring practice standards are maintained to a high quality.

You will be working in a busy environment as part of a large multidisciplinary team, where no two days are the same.

Our expectation of you is that you 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 including (feeding, medicating, walking patients, patient care, cleaning tasks etc)
Carrying out diagnostic testing in our inhouse lab and preparing samples for external testing
Patient restraint
Implementation of appropriate infection control measures throughout the hospital to include regular cleaning schedules as per specified area checklists

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, 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.

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.