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Veterinary Technician - Overnight
Veritas Veterinary PartnersWheat Ridge, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Oct 2024
💰 $72,000/yr
About the role
Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital is excited to announce we are looking for an Overnight Registered
Veterinary Technician to join our team in the Wheat Ridge area!
Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital is Hiring… and so is everyone else. So, what is unique about our
hospital?
Every aspect of our organization links to one key tenet, which is to provide compassionate and
optimal patient care. We have a long standing and national reputation of gold standard medicine,
supported by both the education and training of our team members, along with top-of-the-line
equipment needed to keep stride with the advancements in veterinary medicine.
With this as the epicenter of our mission, our culture consists of respect, compassion,
understanding, and teamwork.
Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital provides an internal community that supports work-life balance,
employee learning and engagement and personal and career development; we also are committed
to external community involvement, which encompasses fellow veterinary establishments and
shelters, city eco sustainability actions, support of local businesses and law enforcement pet care.
We are not just a corporation, we are an entity, a living, breathing, growing organism that can only
thrive when comprised of great team members.
About the job: The Overnight Veterinary Technician position will assist the hospital in delivering
excellent care to all of our patients within the hospital. Perform Veterinary Technician duties pursuant to Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital protocols. Embodies the culture in treating every client with the utmost courteous and attentive treatment possible, with a keen sensitivity to the emotional bond between owners and their pets. Overnight shifts include a shift differential of $4/hr, and an extra $2/hr for ICU overnights.
How you'll make a difference:
What you will bring:
Veterinary Technician to join our team in the Wheat Ridge area!
Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital is Hiring… and so is everyone else. So, what is unique about our
hospital?
Every aspect of our organization links to one key tenet, which is to provide compassionate and
optimal patient care. We have a long standing and national reputation of gold standard medicine,
supported by both the education and training of our team members, along with top-of-the-line
equipment needed to keep stride with the advancements in veterinary medicine.
With this as the epicenter of our mission, our culture consists of respect, compassion,
understanding, and teamwork.
Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital provides an internal community that supports work-life balance,
employee learning and engagement and personal and career development; we also are committed
to external community involvement, which encompasses fellow veterinary establishments and
shelters, city eco sustainability actions, support of local businesses and law enforcement pet care.
We are not just a corporation, we are an entity, a living, breathing, growing organism that can only
thrive when comprised of great team members.
About the job: The Overnight Veterinary Technician position will assist the hospital in delivering
excellent care to all of our patients within the hospital. Perform Veterinary Technician duties pursuant to Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital protocols. Embodies the culture in treating every client with the utmost courteous and attentive treatment possible, with a keen sensitivity to the emotional bond between owners and their pets. Overnight shifts include a shift differential of $4/hr, and an extra $2/hr for ICU overnights.
How you'll make a difference:
- Monitor and appropriately document patient vital signs and activity
- Provide all technical support to emergency veterinarians
- Provide comfort, diagnostic, surgical and nursing care to all patients including critical care
- patients
- Perform basic, emergent, and critical care anesthetic monitoring
- Obtain and prepare samples for diagnostic testing including but not limited to blood draws,
- arterial blood gas sampling, cystocentesis, urinary catheter sampling and free catch urine
- Perform various laboratory procedures including but not limited to blood typing, cross
- matching, and slide agglutination testing
- Accurately take and process abdominal, thoracic, appendicular, spinal, and skull radiograph
- while following appropriate radiation safety protocols
- Properly use and maintain medical equipment
- Provide professional client communication
What you will bring:
- Experience working as a Registered Veterinary Technician for 2+ years, or open to consider
- registered technicians with any experience in ER/ICU setting
- A strong desire to learn and apply knowledge/skills learned to daily work life
- Ability to communicate effectively both written and oral
- Ability to demonstrate technical procedures as outlined in the technician protocols
- Demonstrate reliability and follow-t
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