Experienced ER Veterinary Technician/Assistant - 1st Shift

Job Description

Job Description

Experienced ER Veterinary Technician/Assistant – 1st Shift
Holly Springs

HIRING BONUS $1500.00 – $2500.00 (based on experience)

Title: Veterinary Technician/Veterinary Medical Assistant
Schedule: 1st shift, 7am – 5 pm (Every Wednesday and Thursday with every other Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

Full-time, includes some holidays

Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospital is looking for a highly motivated, highly skilled individual to join our team. We provide 24-hour emergency service and specialty referrals in surgery. We are looking for technicians and assistants who want to utilize their skills to the fullest potential in a moderate paced, fun, and stimulating environment.

Our focuses are quality ER medicine, patient care and client care. We are currently seeking a qualified technician or assistant for our first shift emergency team. This role functions with a great deal of autonomy and responsibility; solid technical skills, sound judgment, excellent communication skills, a positive attitude and the ability to work both independently and with a team are required.

Essential Job Duties:

• Provide nursing care to critically ill hospitalized patients in conjunction with specialty and emergency veterinarians
• Participation in nurse rounds
• Triage incoming patients presenting on emergency
• Assess patient stability and obtain patient vital signs
• Perform diagnostics and treatments of emergency and hospitalized patients
• Perform hourly patient assessment and monitoring
• Observe patients and recognize changes in status
• Place peripheral and central catheters
• Restrain patients for exams and treatments
• Set up and administer IV and SQ fluids
• Maintain urinary catheters
• Bandage removal and application
• Perform suture and drain removal
• Perform drug dose calculations for injectable medications and CRIs
• Administer injectable medications (IV, IM, SQ)
• Administer other medications (PO, OU, AU)
• Maintain isolation protocols for infectious patients
• Basic wound cleaning and care
• Administer injectable and inhalant anesthesia
• Monitor patients while under anesthesia and maintain a monitoring log
• Monitor patients during recovery from anesthesia
• Obtain samples for and perform in house laboratory testing
• Assist in CPCR

Job Requirements:

• Graduation from high school or GED equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years of veterinary experience (emergency experience required)
• Current RVT in NC or eligible for NC registration (preferred, but not required)

TVRH offers a comprehensive benefits package in addition to a hiring bonus, competitive salary, and relocation reimbursement allowance:

• Health, vision, and dental
• HSA and FSA Plans
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity
• Life Insurance
• 401k with employer match
• Paid Parental Leave