Overnight Veterinary Technician

Overnight Veterinary Technician

APA! BACKGROUND: Austin Pets Alive! (APA! is one of Austins most dynamic and bestloved nonprofits. The organization is the leader in the no movement nationally and is considered a national thought leader in animal welfare. APA! locally rescues treats and adopts out 10000 homeless dogs and cats each year providing the safety net for Austins most atrisk shelter pets which helps Austin to be a nokill city while also assisting other communities in saving homeless animals. The organization is distinguished by the spiness of its grassroots nontraditional communitybased animal rescue work.

BRIEF POSITION SUMMARY/OVERVIEW:

The APA! Medical Clinic works on the cutting edge of shelter medicine treating the most critical and vulnerable animals that other shelters and even some private clinics dont have the resources to help. Our veterinary technicians are crucial to the success of our lifesaving programs providing handson care and treatment to the 10000 animals who come through our doors every year. This position is responsible for the late night/overnight treatment and care to all hospitalized animals under the care of the APA! medical clinic as well as providing emergency oncall services to APA! fosters adopters and animal care teams. This position also helps monitor the TLAC campus for safety and emergency concerns including extreme weatherrelated incidents. The overnight support technician is an independent role that will work closely with the veterinary staff animal program teams fosters and adopters.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain proper care of all hospitalized animals on the overnight shift including identifying monitoring and documenting illness symptoms and changes and providing scheduled treatments.
• Comfortable working independently and has strong decisionmaking skills.
• Request and administer all assigned medications appropriately and within acceptable time frames as directed by clinic protocols and the veterinary staff
• Answer the clinic emergency phone line and provide instruction as needed to foster and adopters while maintaining excellent customer service.
• Triage and react accordingly to urgent critical and contagious animals.
• Report declining patients and emergency needs to veterinary staff immediately.
• This person must be comfortable with euthanizing patients as directed by the veterinarian. This does not happen often but due to the nature of the working hours may be necessary.
• Dispense storm medications when storms occur overnight.
• Monitor TLAC grounds and facilities including conducting campus walkthroughs and watching for weatherrelated complications
• Provide Clinic Adoption and Foster Case Management Coordinators with updates as needed including notification of potential new medical cases needing attention
• Maintain uptodate knowledge of all APA! medical protocols and procedures
• Maintain a safe clean and sanitary work environment
• Provide excellent customer service to all clients and stakeholders
• Send a detailed EOD report at the end of your shift
• Duties may differ slightly from this Job Description; all duties are outlined by the Clinic Manager Team Veterinarian or another individual designated by APA!

OTHER FUNCTIONS:

• Attend and participate in all required training sessions and meetings.
• Maintain open and consistent communication with Program Manager or designee supervisor and other colleagues.
• Able to react to change productively and perform other related duties as assigned
• Able to work in a highvolume fastpaced highstress environment

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to routinely lift 4050 pounds
• Must be able to work alone around cats and dogs with varying temperaments including those that are diseased injured and/or potentially fractious or aggressive
• Must be comfortable working indoors and outdoors around unpleasant smells loud noises and a variety of standard cleaning supplies and chemicals
• Must be comfortable witnessing veterinary surgical procedures
• If reasonable accommodations are requested reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job absent undue hardship to the organization.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1 year experience working as a veterinary technician preferably in a customerfacing role
• Proficiency in standard veterinary technician skills including but not limited to proper handling and restraint techniques blood draws and diagnostics skin ses TPR SQ/IM/IV injections and catheter placement
• Must have a basic knowledge of common dog and cat illnesses injuries conditions and diagnostics
• Must be able to run basic medical tests for dogs and cats
• Must be able to transcribe veterinarian notes
• Ability to work independently and have strong decision making abilities.
• Current Valid Drivers License desired for occasional transport needs

EXPECTATIONS:

• Must embody APA!s core values of innovation respect drive resourcefulness and inclusion
• Commitment to APA!s customer experience expectations
• Committed to working well with volunteers and staff in all roles
• Commitment to providing quality care to the animals under care
• Willing and committed to working well with volunteers and staff in all roles

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: This position reports to the Medical Clinic Team Manager.

LOCATION(S):

• APA! Main Town Lake Animal Center 1156 West Cesar Chavez Austin TX 78703
• New APA Clinic 4942 W Hwy 290 Austin TX 78735
• May travel to offsite locations as needed

TIME COMMITMENT:

• This is a fulltime hourly position requiring an average of 40 hours per week with primarily overnight 7pm5am) shifts; may include oncall time as needed. This position pays a shift differential when working overnight hours.
• Shift and schedule flexibility is required as weekly schedule is subject to change
• Able to work evenings weekends and holidays as needed

BENEFITS:

Austin Pets Alive! is proud to offer a competitive benefits package for fulltime employees including subsidized employersponsored medical coverage subsidized and voluntary life insurance voluntary dental vision and shortterm disability options all effective the first day of employment. We also offer voluntary wellness and emergency sick plans up to 2 match on 401(K) retirement plan supplemental benefits flexible spending accounts and additional life coverage. Fulltime employees receive 10 paid holidays and accrue 10 days paid time off during the first year of employment with an additional 5 days of PTO accrual upon completion of 12 months of employment. Employees will also receive professional development opportunities through APA!s ongoing mission to advance our animal welfare professionals in our life saving work.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT

Austin Pets Alive! is an equal employment opportunity employer and we value having staff who come from communities that are most impacted by the issues we engage on. We especially encourage people of color LGBTQ people women transgender and gender nonconforming people and people with disabilities to apply.

Austin Pets Alive! does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status marital status sexual orientation gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Austin Pets Alive! is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion respect and integrity community focus and innovation.