GP Veterinary Nurse

About the role

Mountains Animal Hospital is looking for a motivated GP Veterinary Nurse, who is comfortable with sole charge, to join our friendly General Practice team of experienced Vets and Nurses. This is a part-time role working regular Tuesday to Saturday shifts at a small GP clinic with a friendly local client base.

Key responsibilities

• Management of patient care and ensuring best possible outcomes for patients and clients
• Communicating with clients on a regular basis both face to face and over the phone
• Reception/administration duties including invoicing, cash handling, till reconciliation and record keeping
• Veterinary nursing duties including surgical nursing, providing medical care and treatments to inpatients, performing basic diagnostic testing and assisting veterinarians in care and management of patients
• Tending to boarding patients (Canines, Felines, Avian, Exotics etc) in both the Pet Hotel and General Boarding facilities onsite (cleaning, feeding, medicating, walking)
• Providing basic grooming services for sedated canine and feline patients
• Performing Nursing consults, admissions and discharges as required

About you

• Hold a Certificate 4 in Veterinary Nursing or equivalent
• Have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar veterinary nursing role
• Have an enthusiastic and outgoing personality
• Have an excellent phone manner and customer service/communication skills
• Be committed to high standards of patient care
• Have an interest in training and mentoring junior veterinary nurses and work experience students
• Be comfortable with Sole Nurse work (With one Vet and one nurse onsite)
• Have excellent time management skills- being able to navigate a role that shares Reception, Consulting Nurse, Surgery and Kennel Hand/Ward duties on a given day
• Experience using RxWorks (desired but not essential)
• Experience using Vetcheck (desired but not essential)

Benefits

• 4 weeks annual leave per year for full-time employees (pro-rata for part time employees)
• 30-minute consults
• A variety of consulting and surgical cases each day
• Access to up-to-date equipment
• Located in the beautiful Lower Blue Mountains and less than 30 Minutes/ 1 hour to Sydney CBD
• Career opportunities in a growing business
• A generous salary
• Access to internal referral, with the ability to transfer ECC patients to our 24 hour emergency hospital in Regentville
• Friendly team of vets and nurses
• Varied case load
• Commitment to ethical practice
• No out-of-hours work
• Separate and dedicated offsite call centre, so your interruptions are kept to a minimum

About us

Mountains Animal Hospital is located in Blaxland NSW in the beautiful Lower Blue Mountains and is less than 30 Minutes/ 1 hour to Sydney CBD. We are a small animal general practice with a friendly local client base, offering 30-minute consults, a variety of consulting and surgical cases each day, and access to up-to-date equipment. We are a growing business with career opportunities and a friendly team of vets and nurses committed to ethical practice.