Job Description
Job Description
Clements Ferry Veterinary is growing! We welcomed a new associate, a full-time veterinarian, in July: Dr. Libby James. As more surgery and appointment times are available to clients, we are seeking full-time veterinary technicians who are humble, hungry, and team players, ready to start building a long-lasting relationship. Our team members must abide by our core values (see below) and demonstrate a high moral character. This is more than a job! We strive to serve our community and professionally develop our staff. Experience is required. If you are ready to join a true team for a different, rewarding experience, then please respond to this posting.
Job Description:
A Clements Ferry Veterinary team member is a confident, self-motivated, highly driven individual who thrives on taking initiative. We require the usual skills of a veterinary technician; however, we believe there is so much more to commend our staff for, in addition to skills. We believe each team member possesses unique gifts and talents that make the team better as a whole. Our goal is to promote a culture that helps identify your gifts and provides an environment that allows you to grow both personally and professionally. Our technicians have a great deal of responsibility and are held to a higher standard.
Core Values:
- Choose Joy: Joy is a choice we make every day.
- Accountability: We take accountability for our own actions.
- Have No Fear: We are not afraid to make mistakes.
- Excellence in the Ordinary: We pay attention to every detail.
- Self-Employed Mentality: We all act like we own the place.
Compensation:
$21 - $23 hourly
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Phlebotomy
- IV Catheter placement
- Fluid administration
- Anesthesia monitoring
- SQ, IV, and IM injections
- Preparing and reviewing treatment plans with clients
- Care of hospitalized patients
- Fear Free handling
- Administration of radiographs
- Ultrasound-guided cysto
- Dental scaling and charting
- Placing radiographs on the X-ray table, as well as dental x-rays
- Handling and charting of controlled drugs
- Drug and medication calculation
- Follow-up communication with clients
- Pre-appointment telephone triage
- Sterilization of surgical instruments
- Collection of TPRs
- Compilation of subjective history from clients
- Entering charges into PMS
- Client education for wellness care standards
- Customer Service
- Emergency triage
- Responding to technician call-backs (go-between when clients have questions or concerns for doctors outside of appointments)
Qualifications:
Skills Required: We will train you if you are unfamiliar with our clinic software (ezyVet). We have digital x-ray, ultrasound, laser therapy, and in-house soft-tissue, dental, and orthopedic surgeries. We currently have in-house IDEXX labwork and Antech reference labwork. We prefer previous experience with phlebotomy, wellness care, catheter placement, assisting in surgery (monitoring, dental scaling, polishing, and probing), how to set up, restock, and sanitize and prepare surgical packs), as well as experience with reviewing standards of care with clients, going over treatment plans (estimates), entering charges and explaining administration of medications.
- Veterinary Technician License preferred; experience required
- Infectious personality
- Righteous Living and high moral character
- Innate ability to take initiative
- Unselfish team member
- Good communication and people skills
- Healthy curiosity to always improve
- Open to sharing ideas to better the clinic
- Offers excellent client service and experience
About Company
Clements Ferry Veterinary is an independent, privately owned full-service veterinary hospital offering preventive wellness care, dentistry, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, ultrasound, laser therapy, x-ray images, and nutrition and behavior training. We value a culture of honesty, transparency, and servant leadership. Come by today and experience what sets us apart from the rest!