Get ready to make a positive impact on your team members, your community, and the veterinary industry! Hometown Veterinary Partners is seeking full and part-time Veterinary Assistants to work in brand-new, bright, and beautiful veterinary hospitals.
Requirements
- Maintain a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment
- Bring interpersonal and conflict resolution skills to support an inclusive environment
- Support the training and onboarding of new team members
- Provide ongoing input that supports efficiency, productivity, and well-being
- Identify opportunities and support best practices to contribute to our growth
- Provide a positive and exceptional client experience and patient care
- Welcome clients and their pets to the hospital in a friendly and courteous fashion
- Assist clients in checking in and out as well as setting up appointments for follow-up care
- Gathering basic vital signs, weight, and history on patients
- Properly restraining pets during examinations and procedures
- Prepare and administer medications as prescribed by the DVM
- Observe animal behavior and health conditions and report to the DVM
- Assist in cases of emergencies
- Keep accurate records and logs and record them in patients' medical notes
- Advise pet owners on nutrition and healthcare as determined by the DVM
- Educate owners on medications, husbandry, and recommend practices for their pets as determined by the DVM
- Perform clinical diagnostics
- Support in medical procedures such as collecting specimens, performing laboratory procedures and assisting in diagnostic medical, and surgical procedures in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations
- Give input, ideas, and suggestions for continual improvement of the practice environment for the care team, patients, and pet parents
- Be a part of quality, safety, and health initiatives
- Triage emergency cases appropriately and keep clients and pets at ease
- Review patients' records to ensure that immunizations, diagnostic and routine testing, and prevention are up to date
- Note all observations, testing, and treatments in Medical Notes
- Clean kennels, examination tables/rooms treatment areas, sterilizing equipment and wrapping of packs
Benefits
- PTO for Part-Time & Full-Time Team Members (Inclusive of Vacation, Sick, Personal & Holiday)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Telemedicine
- Wellness & Mental Health Resources
- Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Pet Insurance
- Pet Discounts
- 401k
- CE Allowance
- Opportunity for Equity and Advancement
- Flexible Schedule to Allow for Work-Life Balance
