Surgery Veterinary Technician / RVT (1st Shift)

Veterinary Technician

Charlotte Animal Referral & Emergency is a privately owned 24-hour Emergency and Specialty Referral Hospital in Charlotte, NC that offers its employees a fun company culture, supportive work environment, excellent benefits, and opportunities for growth! Board-certified specialty services offered include internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, surgery, oncology, and ophthalmology. Our advanced diagnostic services include ultrasonography and echocardiography, electroencephalography, endoscopy, rapid-scan CT imaging, high field MRI, and cardio cath lab, in addition to many others.

Charlotte Animal Referral & Emergency is seeking experienced veterinary technicians for our busy surgery department. Surgical technicians are responsible for facilitating client consultations, maintaining daily charting/charges for emergency transfers or hospitalized patients, facilitating daily surgeries from admission to discharge of that patient. Efficiency and attention to detail are imperative. At CARE, surgery technicians work side by side with 3 board-certified surgeons in state-of-the-art facilities using advanced equipment such as CT, MRI, endoscopy, arthroscopy, ultrasound, and fluoroscopy!

Shifts Available:

• (4) 10-hour daytime shifts Monday - Friday (one weekday off per week!)
• Rotating on-call schedule for holidays and weekends
• Overtime available

Requirements:

• High school degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 2 years of veterinary technician experience is required
• RVT preferred but not required
• Venipuncture
• Peripheral intravenous catheter placement
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• The ability to lift up to 40lbs unassisted
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Emotionally intelligent
• Critical thinking
• Able to safely restrain patients for extended periods of time
• Proficient with technology including electronic medical record systems, automated lab analyzers, digital radiology

Responsibilities:

• Prioritizing all patient discharges
• Exceptional client communication, characterized as portraying empathy and professionalism with succinct and effective client education
• Clear, courteous communication with all colleagues (DVM, CSR, techs)
• Provide advanced nursing care to patients with compassion
• Venipuncture: jugular, cephalic, saphenous
• IV catheter placement
• Automated and manual laboratory analysis
• Digital radiology

Benefits:

• 80-hours of PTO
• Company health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k with company match
• Group term life insurance
• Voluntary term life insurance
• $1,500/yr flexible spending account
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• $750/yr CE allowance
• Uniform allowance
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement