ICU Veterinary Assistant

Ethos Veterinary Health • Clarksville, TN

1d • $19 - $29 • Onsite

About The Position

Clarksville Veterinary Emergency & Specialty is seeking Veterinary Technicians and Assistants to join its growing team. The role supports emergency and specialty veterinary care in a team-oriented hospital environment, with opportunities to use and develop clinical skills while caring for a variety of cases. The hospital provides emergency services as well as surgery and internal medicine specialty services.

The position involves triaging emergency patients, collecting histories, assisting veterinarians, performing diagnostics and treatments, communicating estimates and care plans to clients, and discharging patients with medications and home-care instructions. The schedule is rotating weekdays and weekends, with a day shift from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Compensation is $19–$29 per hour based on experience, with additional shift and weekend differentials.

Clarksville Veterinary Emergency & Specialty is a specialty and emergency hospital established in 2020. It operates in a recently renovated and expanded 8,500-square-foot hospital equipped with digital radiography, CT, ultrasound, endoscopy, and a full on-site laboratory. The hospital emphasizes patient care, client experience, team health, community, and sustainable environmental practices, including a comprehensive recycling and composting program.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of veterinary hospital experience or a combination of experience and education.
• High skill in veterinary triage, diagnostics, and nursing.
• Strong veterinary medical knowledge and a detailed understanding of common disease processes and pharmacology.
• Ability to perform diagnostics, treatment, and procedures quickly and efficiently.
• Exemplary customer service, critical thinking, and a team-oriented attitude.
• Fluent English speaking and reading skills.
• Ability to frequently bend, stand, stoop, walk, sit, talk, listen, use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to walk or stand for long periods and often lift and carry animals weighing 50 pounds or more and handle dogs weighing up to 150 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with central line placement, abdominocentesis, thoracocentesis, feeding tube placement, or urinary catheter placement; these advanced skills are preferred but not required.
• Fluency in multiple languages.

Responsibilities

• Determine triage levels for emergency-room patients.
• Obtain patient histories and enter them into the EzyVet electronic patient care system.
• Assist veterinarians in all aspects of patient care.
• Restrain patients for physical examinations.
• Discuss estimates and care plans with clients.
• Carry out diagnostics, procedures, and medication administration.
• Perform patient diagnostics, procedures, and treatments, which may include IV catheter placement, blood work, urinalysis, radiographs, CT scans, CPR, sedation, anesthesia, medication administration by SQ, IM, and IV routes, medication dose calculation, and awareness of medication adverse effects.
• Discharge patients by filling medication prescriptions, confirming diagnostics and medications are complete, educating clients on at-home care, and reviewing discharge instructions.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• Short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement planning with employer matching.
• Discounted employee pet products and services.
• Continuing education allowance.
• Scholarship and sponsorship program via Penn Foster.
• Licensure renewal and out-of-state licensure transfer reimbursements.
• Uniform allowance.
• Cell phone discount.
• YMCA corporate memberships.
• Team-building and volunteer events.
• Career development strategies.
• State-of-the-art, newly renovated and expanded hospital setting.
• Additional shift and weekend differentials.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed