Emergency Veterinary Technician Shift Lead
San Antonio TX
Thrive Pet Healthcare Specialists San Antonio is looking for aShift Lead Vet Tech to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.
At TPHS a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner you will have the support tools and resources to elevate your skills. As a hospital deeply rooted in the local community you will experience the best of both worlds: a genuine local feel with the benefits of Thrives national resources.
About You
As a Shift Lead Vet Tech youll play an important role in pets lives by providing comprehensive care throughout their journey. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests to surgery assistance to support services including admitting and discharging patients.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Demonstrates highly advanced proficiency as a Veterinary Technician within their appropriate department and maintains all relevant skills and knowledge in order to lead other technicians and assistants in the delivery of quality nursing care
- Works with clinician on shift to plan and organize work flow for the shift
- Creates effective working relationships with hospital leadership
- Serves as a mentor tolower-level staff by demonstrating positive work habits effective clinical skills and business knowledge
- Work with Technician Supervisor to implement process improvement initiatives that remove barriers to excellent service
- Facilitate an environment of ongoing communication and feedback
- Coach team members
- May providefeedback to Veterinary Supervisor related to technician and technician assistant performanceto be utilized during annual review
Requirements
- Education equivalent to two years of college (pre-veterinary curriculum) or technical : Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT)
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a supervisory or lead experience required.
- Demonstrated advanced skill level and ability to lead other technicians is required
- Strong interpersonal skills: able to communicate effectively with clients doctors management and hospital personnel
- 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.
About the Hospital
Thrive Pet Healthcare Specialists is an emergency and specialty hospital located in San Antonio TX.
Our Emergency department is open 24 hours 7 days a week.
Benefits our care in action
Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members emotional physical professional and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance and short- and long- term disability plans we offer eligible team members:
- Competitive pay
- 401(k) with employer match
- Mental health resources including 24/7 access to Lyra Health
- Paid parental leave
- Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
- Employer-sponsored childcare and elder care
- Personalized care for every family-forming journey
- Discretionary funds and FREE CE courses
- Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
- Student loan management tools and assistance
Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.
We listen to your needs and then meet them. Through training and free CE experiences your career development can flourish. And in our locally rooted nationally connected community youll be able to make connections access opportunities and find support with ease.
Support for you is as vital as the support you provide.
Youll Thrive With Us
At Thrive you have the opportunity to develop your career in a way that best suits your goals. Take advantage of our comprehensive learning and skill-building programs to enhance your expertise. 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 fundamentals of running a pet hospital
- Scholarship opportunities and tuition reimbursement
- Move into any specialty hospital type or environment across the nation.
- Leadership training for a thriving and long career in the veterinary profession.
About Thrive
Vet-founded and Austin-born Thrive Pet Healthcare has expanded to over 380 partner hospitals nationwide united by a mission to shape the future of pet well-being through medical excellence innovative technology and a connected community of teams and partners.
We bridge general practice urgent care specialty and emergency care and our locally rooted nationally connected hospitals benefit from Thrives extensive resources while maintaining their unique identities.
We believe that supporting our people is the key to helping pets thrive through every stage of life.
Join us where #WeThriveTogether. We provide customizable professional development opportunities a supportive work environment that values work-life rhythms and 24/7 mental health support.
At Thrive Pet Healthcare we are committed to creating a culture where everyone from any background can be heard respected and valued. We pledge to build an inclusive environment nurtured by respectful curiosity to support encourage and celebrate the diverse voices of our teams and the communities we serve.