Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Clifton, NJ

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)•Clifton, NJ

4d•$19 - $39•Onsite

About The Position

VEG is a rapidly growing emergency veterinary company focused on helping people and their pets when they need it most. The Emergency Veterinary Assistant provides compassionate support to patients and customers and performs nursing care, monitoring, treatments, triage, diagnostics, and other tasks as part of the veterinary care team. The assistant works alongside licensed veterinary technicians and, where applicable, under LVT or DVM supervision. Additional training and guided growth pathways may lead to opportunities in veterinary technician credentialing, training, care coordination, community outreach, or leadership.

Requirements

Be passionate and motivated, value learning, and work as an honest and respectful team player.
Love working with animals and people.
Be comfortable adapting to new scenarios, willing to learn new techniques, and able to think outside the box.
Have excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
Be willing to pitch in wherever and whenever needed with a positive attitude.
Demonstrate the ability to accomplish assigned tasks across areas involved and know when to ask for assistance.
Display excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and the team.

Responsibilities

Treat each patient and customer with the highest level of compassion and care.
Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
Use knowledge of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to triage incoming patients.
Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand their potential adverse effects.
Set up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy, including constant rate infusions and blood transfusion therapy.
Contribute to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care as a team member.
Participate in giving and receiving patient rounds to ensure continuity of care.
Train to properly perform all aspects of CPR as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer.
Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests, including in-house and point-of-care tests and diagnostic imaging.
Assist with setting up, performing, and monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia under LVT or DVM supervision.
Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and maintaining urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes.
Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages and other oxygen administration techniques.
Work alongside licensed veterinary technicians as a member of the nursing care team.
Where permitted by law, administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia, with or without mechanical ventilation, for patients with varied levels of risk.
Where permitted by law, perform advanced vascular access techniques, including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement, intraosseous catheterization, and arterial catheterization.
Where permitted by law, perform advanced diagnostic techniques, including ultrasonography and paracentesis.
Where permitted by law, participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans.

Benefits

Industry-leading compensation of $18.50–$39 per hour.
Generous employee pet discount.
Referral rewards.
Health, vision, and dental insurance.
401(k) with company match.
Paid parental leave of up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary.
Unlimited continuing education opportunities.
Flexible work schedules.
Growth potential.
Groceries delivered to hospitals weekly for staff.
Monthly and quarterly contests, quarterly hospital outings, and company-wide retreats.