Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Brentwood, MO

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)•Brentwood, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

VEG is hiring an Emergency Veterinary Assistant to support emergency veterinary care and help provide compassionate, high-quality experiences for patients, customers, and coworkers. The role involves nursing care, patient monitoring and treatment, triage, diagnostic testing, and supporting outpatient and inpatient care alongside licensed veterinary technicians. Assistants may take on additional advanced clinical tasks where permitted by law and may pursue guided growth pathways into areas such as training, credentialing, community outreach, coordination of care, and leadership.

Requirements

Be passionate and motivated, value learning, and work as an honest and respectful team player.
Enjoy working with animals and people.
Be comfortable adapting to new scenarios, willing to learn new techniques, and able to think outside the box.
Have strong interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
Be willing to help wherever and whenever needed and maintain a positive attitude.
Be able to accomplish assigned tasks across areas of work and know when to ask for assistance.
Demonstrate 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.
Triage incoming patients using knowledge of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters.
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 transfusions.
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.
Pursue additional training and guided growth pathways, including veterinary technician credentialing, training, community outreach, and leadership.
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.