Veterinary Technician, Overnight ER

Ethos Veterinary Health•Honolulu, HI

63d•Onsite

About The Position

Veterinary Emergency + Referral Center of Hawaii (VERC) is an advanced 24-hour veterinary emergency and specialty hospital. Our dedicated board-certified specialists and highly-trained emergency professionals provide a collaborative approach to veterinary medicine. Supported by our modern, state-of-the-art facility, we offer a full in-house laboratory, ultrasound, CT, MRI and electrochemotherapy. At VERC, our mission is to provide the highest standard of emergency and specialty medicine, offering the most comprehensive and progressive patient care on the Hawaiian Islands. As an Overnight Veterinary Technician in ER/ICU, your duties would include, but not limited to Triaging incoming patients and managing clients throughout their visit, Partnering with DVM’s in patient assessment, diagnostics, treatments, and procedures, and catheter placement, Obtaining and processing laboratory samples such as blood, urine, free fluid, and fine needle aspirates, Utilizing different modalities of radiology imaging for patient assessment, Executing, monitoring, and recovering all assigned sedation and anesthetic events, and Providing outstanding client care to maintain long-term relationships with clients.

Requirements

Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt to different communication styles
Work history demonstrating strong organizational and time management skills as well as a strong sense of personal accountability
Ability to maintain professional composure and a positive attitude in a high-performance culture with ever changing demands
Knowledgeable of and able to effectively operate patient monitoring, laboratory, radiographic and anesthetic equipment
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and compute rate, ratio and percent to accurately calculate volumes and rates of medications and other treatments
2 years’ experience as a veterinary technician in a progressive general practice and/or 1 years in a specialty practice

Responsibilities

Triaging incoming patients and managing clients throughout their visit
Partner with DVM’s in patient assessment, diagnostics, treatments, and procedures, and catheter placement
Obtaining and processing laboratory samples such as blood, urine, free fluid, and fine needle aspirates.
Utilize different modalities of radiology imaging for patient assessment
Executing, monitoring, and recovering all assigned sedation and anesthetic events
Provide outstanding client care to maintain long-term relationship with clients