Veterinary Assistant - Avian and Exotics - Lead
Veterinary Assistant - Avian and Exotics - Lead
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Position at Thrive Pet Healthcare
Lead Veterinary Assistant Avian and Exotics
La Mesa CA
FullTime
Monday Wednesday 7:30am6:30pm & Tuesday and Thursday 8:30a7:30pm
At Pet Emergency & Specialty Center La Mesa a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner we take action to empower your best care for pets their families and yourself.
We are a community of400clinics 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 Pet Emergency & Specialty Center our team is dedicated to providing quality care to our patients and elevating our client experience.
We have several different specialists including Critical Care Surgery Internal Medicine and Avian and Exotics. Collaboratively we strive to provide the highest level of care education and understanding to our clients their pets and our referring veterinarians.
What We Are Looking For
Pet Emergency & Specialty Center is looking for an experienced lead veterinary assistant to join our Avian & Exotics team.
The Exotics Lead Assistant is responsible for ensuring outstanding care for all of our patients overseeing that all the protocols are implemented as defined ensuring hospital and Exotics Service efficiency and managing the resources and staff to offer a service beyond the clients expectations.
Role Responsibilities:
- Support veterinarians to ensure quality veterinary care advocate for pets and educate clients.
- Ensure that all the Exotics Technicians read and understand the information provided in
PESC emails mailbox and communication boards. - Be able to preform all the responsibilities listed for an exotics assistant
- Encourage a team atmosphere on shifts by treating other staff members with respect
recognizing achievement and encouraging growth. - Evaluate coordinate and supervise the workflow and activities of the
Technicians and Assistants - Notify the Service Manager of all staffing requirements or issues (absenteeism
performance issues etc.). Ensure the presence of all staff needed for every shift.
Identify other services needs before sending staff home early - With each hospital function assist veterinarians and the medical team to maximize productivity and maintain positive patient flow.
- Communicate with clients about individualized pet health concerns and treatment plans
- Assist in maintaining relevant comprehensive medical records with the support of practice systems.
- Attend monthly AllLead Meetings and any other mandatory meetings.
- Take the initiative to handle any client that seems to be uncomfortable or unhappy
with any aspect of the service. Identify their needs and define and implement
compassionate solutions for their concerns to ensure the clients satisfaction. - Obtain relevant health history and information from clients and maintain medical charts.
- Use safe restraining techniques follow standard protocols and sustain clean sterile organized treatment areas exam rooms and labs.
- Be willing to guide mentor and support fellow team members.
Experience & Skills Requirements:
- Clinical veterinary experience with Avian and Exotic species strongly preferred
- Leadership experience strongly preferred
- 2 3 years of clinical veterinary experience required
- Proficient in IV catheters placement blood work and IV IM and SQ injections
- Proficient in monitoring anesthesia and working with various monitoring equipment
- Team player
- Eager to learn and is selfmotivated
- Enjoys a challenging and fastpaced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask under pressure
Youll GrowWithUs
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:
- Ourvast diverse and free library of continuing education courses ThriveU
- Live virtual interactiveworkshops to develop valuable leadershipskills
- A program todesigned to teach youthe fundamentals ofrunning apethospital
- Earn your AVMACVTEA Accreditation and become a Vet Tech through our fully accredited distance learning program for veterinarytechnicians
- Scholarshipopportunities andtuition reimbursement
And with so many locationsnationwideyou 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:
- Paidtime offincluding 8weeks of fullpay parental leave bereavement to grieve both humans and pets andtime offfor new petadoptions
- Top quality medical dental and vision insuranceplushealth savings account and flexible spending account
- Pet perksincluding free exams discounts on products and services up to 75 percent off and more at all Thrive Pet Healthcare locations
- Milestone Award Program generous bonus received for dedication to company at 3510 year
- Generously subsidizedbackup and ongoing care supportfor children adults and pets
- Mental health benefitsincluding coaching and therapysessions
- 401k with employer contributionand no waiting period
- Continuing education anddevelopment supportthroughour libraryoffree CE coursesand paid time off tocomplete
- Scholarship opportunitiesandstudent loan supportprogram
and so much more!
Compensation negotiable based on credentials and experience with a hourly pay rate starting at$26$28/hour. The actual rate offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors including your skills qualifications experience and location.
4 Day Work Week (10 hour shifts). May include 1 weekend day.
4 Day Work Week (10 hour shifts). May include 1 weekend day.
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.
Employment Type
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