Veterinary Rehabilitation Assistant

Chesapeake Veterinary Surgical Specialists•Cockeysville, MD

About The Position

The Veterinary Rehabilitation Assistant works between the hours of 7am and 6pm Monday-Friday (usually four 10 hour days) and plays a vital role in providing competent and compassionate basic care by assisting the Veterinary Rehabilitation Therapists in appointments with their patients as needed to ensure high-quality patient and client care.

Requirements

One of the following qualifications required: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to effectively communicate in English both verbally and in writing with individuals and small group situations to clients and other employees of the organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
Ability to solve practical problems within the guidelines of the company's policy and basic patient care principles.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or schedule form.
To perform this job successfully an individual should have basic data entry and computer skills.
The employee is regularly required to stand and walk as well as use hands to feel / handle patients and items.
In addition, the employee may spend 25% of the time sitting, climbing, or balancing; 50-60% of the time may be spent reaching with hands and arms, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
The employee is required to lift between up to 50 pounds alone and up to 100 + pounds with the aid of other employees.