Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Paramus, NJ

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)•Paramus, NJ

4d•$19 - $44

About The Position

VEG is seeking an Emergency Veterinary Assistant to help provide emergency care for animals and support their customers. The role involves compassionate patient and customer care, nursing tasks, patient monitoring, treatments, triage, medication administration, and diagnostic testing. Assistants work alongside licensed veterinary technicians and may support outpatient and inpatient care, patient rounds, sedation, and surgical anesthesia under LVT or DVM supervision. Where permitted by law, Veterinary Assistants may also perform advanced anesthesia, vascular access, and diagnostic techniques and participate in developing treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans. VEG offers guided growth pathways that can lead to opportunities in areas such as veterinary technician credentialing, training, care coordination, community outreach, and leadership.

Requirements

Be passionate, motivated, and willing to learn.
Be a team player who is honest and respectful toward peers.
Enjoy working with animals and people.
Be comfortable adapting to new situations, learning new techniques, and thinking outside the box.
Have strong interpersonal skills across a diverse group.
Be willing to help wherever and whenever needed with a positive attitude.
Be able to complete assigned tasks across involved areas and know when to ask for assistance.
Have excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and the team.

Responsibilities

Treat each patient and customer with 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 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 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 part of the nursing care team.
Where permitted by law, administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia, with or without mechanical ventilation.
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.