Night Shift** Emergency Room Veterinary Assistant

Make a Difference at Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic

Come join our fast-paced, exciting Emergency Room Team as a Veterinary Assistant!

 Available

Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic has been providing outstanding patient care for the past 33 years.  Nestled deep in the beautiful bay area 5 minutes from downtown Annapolis is our state-of-the-art ER and referral center open 24 hours and 365 days a year. We have 25 Veterinarians, 50 Technicians, 20 Assistants and 20 Client Service Representatives. We work side-by-side with different specialty practices (Neurology, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, Ophthalmology, and Rehabilitation) and care for their patients overnight. 

Night Shift Times Available:

8pm – 6 am

10pm – 8am

*** Generous Night Shift Differential ****

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:   

·       Performs the daily cleaning and stocking of the hospital, including cleaning related to patient care (cages, post-procedures, etc.), as well as basic hospital cleaning (trash, sweeping, mopping, laundry, etc).  Attention to daily duty list. 

·       Assist with patient care, including during basic procedures, performing animal restraint, and providing basic animal care.   

·       Arrange for patient procedures, including surgery room preparation.  

·       Perform clinical laboratory procedures, including preparation of fecal floatation/direct fecal, CBC, urinalysis dipstick, cite test kits and coagulation tests.  Enter information from laboratory test results into the computerized animal record database. 

·       Assist with taking and maintaining radiographs.  

·       Assist all other AAVEC Teams in the hospital as needed. 

·       Provide dignified after-care for deceased patients, including maintaining and tracking pertinent information. 

·       Potentially assist with job shadowing for scheduled shadowing interviews of applicants.   

·       Uphold the team and company mission and core values.  

·       Perform other tasks and duties as assigned in a frequently changing work environment.  

Time Off

At AAVEC we believe in Work - Life Balance and a healthy lifestyle which means the shift you are hired for is the shift time you will work every shift. This will help your life have some normalcy and consistency. We also believe in LOTS of time off, vacations, and spending quality time with your loved ones. Our rotation schedule was created by our veterinary technicians with the intent that it would allow them to take multiple vacations a year with using very little of their paid time off and would keep them from having to work every weekend. Every other weekend you will have 3 days off in a row, guaranteed. By only using 2 days of your PTO you are able to take 7 days off in a row multiple times a year. Your schedule is also tentatively made for the entire year so you can make plans long in advance and also have a part time hobby or job if you choose.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

·       Experience working with small animals (dogs and cats) in some capacity.

·       Ability to work in a fast-paced, stressful work environment. Must be able to maintain professionalism and composure at all times.

·       Able to effectively communicate with co-workers, supervisors, clients and the public in a professional manner

·       Ability to work independently on assigned tasks as well as to accept direction on given assignments.

·       Ability to speak, read and write the English language

Education and Experience for Assistants:

·       1 year of working with small animals is preferred

·       High School or Equivalent

 What We Bring to the Table

·       Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance

·       Excellent Paid Time Off Program

·       Double Time on Holidays

·       Generous Shift Differential for Overnight Shifts

·       Continuing Education

·       Annual Uniform Allowance

·       Semi Annual Bonus Opportunity

·       Tuition Reimbursement Program for Veterinary Technology Degree

·       Generous Employee Pet Discount

·       401k with Company Match

·       Disability Insurance, Life Insurance, HSA/ FSA

·       Convenient Rotating Schedule with Adequate Time off including Rotating Weekends

·       Employee Referral Rewards

·       State-of-the-Art Facility & Equipment

·       Multi-practice referral center

Compensation

·       Based on experience & skill level

Salary : $16 - $21