40 hours a week

Salary - Commensurate with experience

Role and responsibilities

• Provide triage, first aid and care to new admissions.
• Perform basic surgeries and assist our vets with surgeries, monitoring anaesthetics during any such procedures.
• Perform X-rays.

Support the resident and volunteer vets with on-going treatments, rehabilitation, and release of patients.

• Comply with the requirements and regulations of all official veterinary bodies, adhering to best practice guidelines.
• Keep up to date with current veterinary advice and treatment plans for conditions.
• Keep drug dose chart current and correct and adding new doses and drugs as we obtain them.
• Administer medications to all the patients currently in our care, assist with stock control and ordering of drugs and vet supplies and liaising with the office to send lab samples and any other vet supplies/mail/parcels.
• Interpret reports of lab samples and take action when needed for results received.
• Assist in maintaining the treatment room and its general equipment to a high standard of cleanliness and operational functionality, including assisting with arranging servicing as necessary.
• Assist with responding to volunteer queries, internal & external emails and telephone calls.
• Fully facilitate all visits/inspections of official veterinary bodies

Assist with providing references for veterinary students.

Assist with maintaining the Amazon Wish List

Assess/write/update protocols, training manuals and guides, under vet supervision, and assist with keeping all volunteers (vet team and animal husbandry volunteers) up to date on new protocols.

Assist with daily checks on all patients, to ensure welfare standards are met and protocols have been followed, informing the vets if anything of concern is noted.

Add new admissions on the appropriate feeding board – check with the vets for any special food or enclosure requirements. Check feeding boards daily and update/re-write as necessary.

Keep patients moving through the hospital into appropriate cages/aviaries. Always checking with the vets before moving animals under treatment or being monitored by them.

Check records are correct for each patient before moving/releasing.

Additional duties:

• Support and liaise with staff for the day-to-day operation of the charity.
• Assist with the recruitment and training of volunteer Vets, RVNs and auxiliaries.
• Assist with organizing the rota and the time off for the vet team, in collaboration with the vet team.
• Keep the media team informed about new/unusual patients.
• Deliver presentations to the public on natural and wildlife subjects where requested.
• Ensure necessary tasks are covered in your absence by leaving detailed handover notes for someone else to carry out.

Additional duties may also include any and all other activities reasonably requested by your Employer related to your competencies and the needs of the Charity’s project(s). The role will also require occasional out-of-hours working (including evenings and weekends) to ensure that the needs of the patients are met.