Lead Veterinary Nurse (RVN)
More clinical influence. More career progression. More opportunity to shape the future of veterinary nursing.
Are you an experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) looking for your next career move? Perhaps you're already a Lead Veterinary Nurse looking for a new challenge, or you're ready to take your first step into veterinary nursing leadership.
At Maven Veterinary Care , we're looking for a passionate and motivated Lead Veterinary Nurse to help lead our nursing team of eight at our established, award-winning small animal hospital in North Cheam, Surrey .
This is an opportunity to do more than manage a team. You'll have the chance to influence how nursing services develop, support colleagues in advancing their clinical skills and play a meaningful role in shaping the future of our hospital.
And importantly, you won't have to step away from the clinical work you enjoy to progress your career.
You don't need previous Lead Nurse experience. If you have strong clinical skills, enjoy helping others develop and are ready to take on more responsibility, we'd love to hear from you.
Why join Maven Veterinary Care?
Shape the future of nursing at Maven
Your ideas and clinical experience will matter here. You'll have the opportunity to help develop our nursing services, improve day-to-day hospital efficiencies and enhance inpatient care.
Whether you're passionate about Schedule 3 procedures, hospital medicine, imaging or finding better ways of working, you'll have the opportunity to make a genuine difference to how our services evolve.
Take your next step into veterinary nursing leadership
You'll lead and support a team of eight, helping colleagues develop their confidence, knowledge and clinical skills.
This is an opportunity to build your leadership experience through mentoring, line management, knowledge sharing and supporting the professional development of your colleagues.
You don't need to have held a leadership title before. We're looking for someone with the clinical credibility, enthusiasm and ambition to help others succeed.
Stay hands-on with a varied and interesting clinical caseload
We know that progressing into leadership doesn't mean you want to give up nursing.
You'll continue enjoying a varied caseload across general practice, hospital and emergency work, with opportunities to rotate through:
Hospital and inpatient nursing
Surgical nursing
Nurse consultations
Flex shifts, offering variety across different areas of the hospital
With shifts rotating between 7:30am and 8pm , you'll have the opportunity to maintain and develop a broad range of clinical nursing skills while building your leadership experience.
Dedicated time to focus on leadership
We recognise that leading a team takes time.
That's why you'll benefit from protected leadership and senior administrative time within your rota, separate from your clinical responsibilities.
This gives you dedicated time to support your team, develop nursing services and contribute to improvements across the hospital.
Work alongside experienced clinical leaders
You'll work closely with our Lead Veterinary Surgeon, taking responsibility for the day-to-day running of the hospital and supporting each other in your leadership roles.
You'll also be part of a collaborative veterinary team with a range of experience and clinical interests, including two medicine certificate holders.
With colleagues keen to develop further in medicine and imaging, you'll have the opportunity to support their clinical progression while developing your own knowledge and expertise.
Develop your career with ongoing learning and funded CPD
We're passionate about helping our nurses grow.
You'll benefit from:
An annual CPD allowance and three days of CPD leave
Funded external CPD opportunities
Access to extensive free internal and online Linnaeus CPD
Support to develop your individual clinical interests
Opportunities to pursue further qualifications, with funding available…