Urgent Care Veterinary Assistant

Description

UrgentVet bridges the gap between daytime general practice and emergency / overnight care, offering after-hours care for canine and feline patients without the additional expense of emergency clinic fees.

Our hospitals offer care for common urgent cases, including wound management, ear infections, vomiting / diarrhea, and euthanasia.

Each of our paperless clinics is specially designed to deliver efficient care and equipped with cloud-based EMR, digital x-ray, and a full suite of IDEXX in-house lab equipment.

Are you looking for an opportunity to make an impact in your community while tackling a challenging, variety of tasks and the ability to helps animals among a great team of people?

Our clinic is seeking a Full-time / Part-time Veterinary Assistant to help provide outstanding patient care, team leadership, and client service in a fast-paced, state-of-the-art urgent care clinic.

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Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrates professionalism, dependability, healthy and positive communication skills, and the ability to multi-task in a hands-on environment
• Energetic people-and-pet person with excellent work ethic and social and organizational skills
• Willing to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Full-time employees may be required to travel for on-site training and onboarding
• Prior customer service experience
• Prior experience working with animals in a hospital setting
• Must be able to lift 40 lbs

Skills, Knowledge, & Expertise

• Animal handling experience including patient restraint, sample collection, and monitoring
• Clinical skills including phlebotomy, catheter placement, laboratory analysis, and drug calculation
• Additional duties including facility maintenance and client education

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision Options)
• 401k Match
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Six (6) weeks of paid Parental Leave
• One (1) Work / Life Balance day off
• Short-term and long-term disability options
• Supplemental insurance options
• Discounted Veterinary Care
• Scrub allowance
• Hands-on and E-training
• Professional growth opportunities
• Tuition assistance for prospective Veterinary Technician Students
• Tuition reimbursement for Credentialed / Registered Veterinary Technicians

At American Veterinary Group (AVG), we are no strangers to growth. In 2022, we hit an exciting milestone : over 100 veterinary practices within our family of hospitals and a footprint that extends across 10 states.

We continue to grow and leverage our infrastructure to empower veterinary practices and professionals by providing exceptional support for hospital operations, medical expertise, recruiting, training, marketing, finance, and human resource functions.

In short, we serve to support our family of hospitals and we got here by caring, listening, and fostering genuine partnerships with each of our veterinary hospitals to empower their strength, expertise, and medical autonomy at the local level.

Today, we get to call the 1,600 hospital employees, including over 200 veterinarians and 90 home office support staff, our colleagues, mentors, and cheerleaders.

Tomorrow will bring us even more growth in talent and expertise. And the best part? There’s room for you at the table to also grow and be supported if you join our team!