What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgery Veterinary Technician position at Advanced Veterinary Care?
Advanced Veterinary Care (AVC) is a brand new privately owned urgent care and specialty hospital located in beautiful and always growing city of Orlando, Florida. What sets AVC apart is that we are dedicated to providing innovative, compassionate care in a collaborative approach in addition to promoting a positive work environment and advocating for employee well-being.
We are looking for friendly, compassionate and collaborative candidates to join our team to provide the exceptional care for our patients from our state of the art facility. In addition to soft tissue and orthopedic surgeries we offer minimally invasive procedures, regenerative therapies, negative pressure wound therapy and much more! Our surgery team is a fast-paced environment which is perfect for technician looking for training in multiple disciplines and for those who want to expand their knowledge in veterinary anesthesia and surgery.
As a Surgery Veterinary Technician, you will:
- Provide nursing care to patients according to hospital standards of care and core values.
- Review medical records, develop anesthetic protocol and develop post operative treatment plan with our surgeon and discharge patients.
- Prepare patients for surgery including clipping, prepping and positioning for surgery.
- Intubating and monitoring of patients under general anesthesia.
- Perform diagnostic imaging including digital radiographs, CT scans and digital cytology.
- Basic knowledge of surgical packs, sterilization protocols and instrumentation.
Expectations / Requirement:
- Prior veterinary experience is required. Previous surgery experience preferred.
- Proficient in drug calculation and strong anesthetic skills.
- Experience in surgical preparation of patients, maintaining sterile technique and surgical instrumentation.
- Display competency in general knowledge and nursing skills required to care for patients.
- As necessary, help with cleaning the operating rooms, instruments and the setting up and breakdown of the operating rooms.
- Must be able to bend, kneel and stand for long periods of time. Applicant should be able to frequently lift patients and inventory up to 40 pounds.
Employee benefits and Perks include:
- Our comprehensive benefits plan will be reviewed yearly with employee surveys to potentially amend our package based on our entire team’s interest
- Resources are available for employees that would like counseling / guidance with health or retirement benefits, in addition to general financial planning
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Other voluntary insurance benefits such as life, disability, health savings accounts available
- 401K and 401k matching retirement planning
- Flexible work schedules
- Competitive paid time off
- Commensurate salary with experience/credentials
- Employee discounts (including pet insurance premiums, products and services)
- Educations resources (atDOVE, VetGIrl, VIN and major veterinary journals)
- Support of professional development and allowance for CE (for licensed staff)
- Technician license reimbursement
- Uniform allowance
- Access to mental healthcare, mindfulness and self-care resources (through our employee assistance program)
- We promote a collaborative approach, where we are all working together as a TEAM to provide the best care for our patients.
We are excited to meet you and bring you into our team!
All offers of employment at Advanced Veterinary Care are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates and on all employees who are promoted, as deemed necessary. AVC is a drug-free workplace, prior to employment all candidates must complete drug screening.
