Veterinary Assistant in Federal Way, WA

Booster Pet • Federal Way, WA

371d • $20 - $25

About The Position

BoosterPet is looking for passionate and experienced Veterinary Assistants to share our vision of providing healthy work spaces. With your help, we are creating an environment that cares and respects you financially and emotionally and supports your health and well being. Through this environment, each of us has the ability to perform at our best and can provide the best care and service for every pet. We are looking for those that are self-motivated, driven to succeed and are passionate about elevating veterinary medicine through collaboration, innovation, and providing excellent service. This position will primarily be responsible for serving our pet community with urgent care needs. Urgent Care is ideal for pets who need to be seen by a veterinarian and their condition is not life-threatening and doesn't require an overnight hospitalization. It's similar to when you would choose a human urgent care over the emergency room.

Requirements

• Experience is required
• Medication Clerk license preferred, will help you obtain if not currently licensed
• Willingness to adapt to help a growing company succeed in both conventional and novel ways

Responsibilities

• Play an active role in the BoosterPet medical team to provide quality medical care, model BoosterPet's core values
• Ability to triage and complete vitals on behalf of our DVMs
• Be tech savvy
• Support BoosterPet urgent care services and wellness as needed
• Complete detailed medical records with thorough medical history
• Ensure medical records are accurate within the practice management system
• Educate animal owners
• Liaising with veterinarians and veterinary technicians to ensure continuity of patient care
• Follow all safety protocols to ensure safety of pets, clients, and team members
• Administer medications and vaccines prescribed by a veterinarian
• Maintain medication clerk licensure
• Obtain and verify medications
• Perform phlebotomy duties, and provide intramuscular (IM), intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SQ) injections
• Restrain pets in a manner that allows necessary work to be performed, minimizes stress to pets, and ensures the safety of pets and people
• Assist at front desk/kiosk and greet clients/patients upon entry
• Answer phones and make appointments as needed
• Administer first aid for emergencies
• Help technicians induce/monitor and recover anesthetic patients
• Perform laboratory work and diagnostic imaging
• Maintain safe, secure, healthy, and humane environment by sterilizing and wrapping instruments, sanitizing operating areas, verifying shelf life of medications, maintaining equipment and complying with legal regulations
• Train new employees on standards of operations
• Safely drive to various locations in the greater metropolitan Seattle area to support BoosterPet clinics as staffing needs arise
• Other duties as assigned by managers

Benefits

• Competitive salary with sick and vacation hour accrual for full time associates
• Paid medical
• Health Savings Account with annual practice-paid funding of $750 to supplement health care expenses
• Veterinary Pet Discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees