Veterinary Assistant
Veterinary Assistant
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Job Description
Animal Specialty Center in Yonkers New York is looking for Veterinary Assistants who are looking to join a fast paced forward thinking hospital. You can make an exceptional difference in the lives of our patients and their families by directly contributing to outstanding patient care.
Our Veterinary Assistants are the Licensed Veterinary Technicians primary medical support and works with the LVT to complete all tasks required by the veterinarian. The Veterinary Assistant directly assists their team with animal restraint and handling basic medical tasks and client interactions.
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or G.E.D
- Experience working in a veterinary practice preferred but willing to train the right individual
Physical Requirements:
- Able to be active: sitting walking standing kneeling bending and crouching for extended periods of time
- Able to work well under pressure and at high levels of stress
- Able to lift 40 pounds
Essential Responsibilities:
- Practice safe patient restraint
- Use practice management software to maintain client and patient records
- Communicate clearly calmly and effectively with all clients on the phone and in person
- Perform and recognize normal physical exam assessments for canine and feline patients of temperature heart rate pulse quality respiration and mucous membranes.
- Provide excellent nursing care including notation of patient status eliminations appetite etc.
- Perform all inhouse/outside laboratory diagnostics and imaging including CT MRI XRay etc.
- Troubleshoot errors with Inhouse laboratory equipment
- Clean and maintain equipment and areas as needed
- Make and present estimates to clients for diagnostics treatments and/or hospitalization
- Maintain cleanliness and organization of assigned departments
- Communicating with pharmacies in the interest of filling patient prescriptions per veterinarians orders
- Maintenance of department inventory and participating in scheduled hospital inventory count
- Sterile processing skills including maintaining and sterilizing surgical instruments and packs
What you can expect:
A team that feels and functions like a family.We pride ourselves in an open welcoming work environment where employees can feel safe to learn from their coworkers and seek guidance from a variety of clinicians and specialists.
A learning environment.Senior technicians mentor and guide newer technicians and veterinary assistants to build them to a level of expertise.We work hard to support a learning environment where technicians receive the support to pursue specialty credentials and leadership opportunities.
Fast pace.We are looking forhighly motivated veterinary assistants to join our fastpaced 24hour emergency and intensive care team.
What we provide:
Leadershipstrives to maintain close working relationships with all employees to take into consideration their concerns or suggestions for continued innovation and expansion of our services and patient care.
Comprehensive benefits.We provide an annual uniform allowance state sick leave days additional paid vacation time off competitive healthcare benefits 401(k) pet care discounts to name a few.
Paid trainingincluding an annual CE stipend set paid CE days inhouse CE lectures and online learning platforms.
Tuition Sponsorshipand License Reimbursementfor those looking to continue their veterinary medicine education and working towards becoming licensed in NYS.
Most importantly we provide mentorship and growth.
Employment Type
Full-Time
