Part-Time Veterinary Technician - Surgery
About The Position
BluePearl Pet Hospital is hiring an exceptional Veterinary Technician to join our single specialty Town N Country Surgery Team! You will have the opportunity to work with our amazing Board-Certified Surgeon. Most of our cases are orthopedics, soft tissue, neurological, and more! There is no ER service, no weekend hours, and we are generally closed for the 6 major holidays each year. If you're interested in using the newest innovative anesthetic protocols and anesthetic management, then this is the place for you! A BluePearl Surgery Technician is responsible for some post-operative client communication and must be able to work independently while contributing to a larger team goal. Prefer to have a minimum of two or more years of experience in a veterinary hospital. A rotating on-call schedule is required once training has been completed. This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through our leveling system. Schedule: Days Hours. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Subject to change
Requirements
- A rotating on-call schedule is required once training has been completed.
Nice To Haves
- Prefer to have a minimum of two or more years of experience in a veterinary hospital.
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values.
- Ability to take the patient through the entire procedure from start to finish: Pre-op: Comfortable with intubation, induction, post-operative diagnostics, and prepping patients for surgery Peri-Op: Monitoring Anesthesia and ability to troubleshoot Post- Op: Hospitalization care, radiographs, pain management, extubating, fluid therapy
- Comfortable with assessing patients, and collecting vitals
- Performs physical exam; accurately counts heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate and effort.
- Understand normal vital parameters and alerts doctor when abnormal.
- Set up constant rate infusions (CRI).
- Able to set up intravenous fluids.
- Administers subcutaneous fluids.
- Can operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors.
- Able to disconnect and connect patients from intravenous fluids aseptically.
- Ability to monitor patient response to fluid therapy, including signs of overload.
- Client communication with patient histories, care instructions, lab results, patient updates.
Benefits
- Our passion is pets. We offer Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
- We encourage you to grow with us. Our technicians are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience.
- We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops.
- As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in his/her career.
- In order to transform and lead the industry through innovative quality medicine and care, we understand the importance of continuous learning. We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.
- We value your health and well-being as an associate by providing you with the following: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options. Parental leave benefits. Flexible work schedules. Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans. A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment.
- We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
