Description
Position at Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital
Veterinary AssistantHorseshoe Lake Animal Hospital
Collinsville IL
Fulltime
More than a word care is present in everything you do. AtHorseshoe Lake Animal Hospital aThrive Pet Healthcare partner we take action to empower your best care for pets their families and yourself.
We are a community of 400 clinics forming an extraordinary network of unparalleled resources and people. Through outstanding learning and career options comprehensive benefits and abundant support youll be nurtured and appreciated for who you are and what you bring to the table. We come together in both the joys and heartaches of our profession to lift each other up through laughter and empathy.
And we have plenty of fun along the way!
Who we are
At Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital youll feel the warmth and openness of a small clinic while having the opportunity and support of a united network.
We are a large multi doctor practice located in Collinsville IL. We have a wellequipped facility and we offer acupuncture therapy laser telemedicine and ultrasound in addition to general medicine surgical and dental services.
Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.
Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital is looking for aVet Assistant to join us as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.
As a Vet Assistant youll play an important role in petslives by providing endtoend care for our precious patients. Your lifechanging work will range from the handson care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests to support services including admitting and discharging patients.
Role responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Animal Handling
- Pre and postoperative patient care
- Creating and presenting financial options and estimates
- Accurately entering service charges into the client processing database
- Extensive client interaction
- Preparing medications
- Taking XRays of animals
- Administer medications vaccines and treatments prescribed by our inhouse veterinarians.
- Drawing blood samples for testing
Ideal candidate:
- Someone who is a motivated team player.
- Someone who can communicate effectively and professionally with our doctors customers and other staff members.
- Someone who has a desire and passion to learn every day.
- Someone who has compassion for both the animal patients and the pet owners.
- Previous Veterinary assistant experience is required
Youll Grow With Us
Here you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:
- Our vast diverse and free library of continuing education courses ThriveU
- Live virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
- A program to designed to teach you the fundamentalsofrunning a pet hospital
- Earn your AVMACVTEA Accreditation and become a Vet Tech through our fully accredited distance learning program for veterinary technicians
- Scholarship opportunities and tuition reimbursement
And with so many locations nationwide you can find and move into any specialty hospital type or environment. Join us and provide your best care at a clinic that is deeply rooted within its community and bolstered by the resources of Thrive Pet Healthcare.
Benefits our care in action
We provide benefits spread comprehensively across your mental physical emotional and financial wellbeing designed to meet your needs as a unique individual. Some key benefits include:
- Paid time offincluding 8weeks of fullpay parental leave bereavement to grieve both humans and pets and time off for new pet adoptions
- Top quality medical dental and vision insuranceplus health savings account and flexible spending account
- Pet perksincluding free exams discounts on products and services and more at all Thrive Pet Healthcare locations
- Generously subsidizedbackup and ongoing care supportfor children adults and pets
- Mental health benefitsincluding coaching and therapy sessions
- 401k with employer contributionand no waiting period
- Continuing education anddevelopment supportthrough our library offree CE coursesand paid time off to complete
- Scholarship opportunitiesandstudent loan supportprogram
and so much more!
At Thrive Pet Healthcare we celebrate and embrace the uniqueness and diversity of all of our team members pet parents and pets. We strive to create a diverse equitable and inclusive culture where all team members belong and feel empowered.