What are the responsibilities and job description for the Veterinary Assistant position at Bay Cities Pet Hospital?
Experience Veterinary Assistant – Bay Cities Pet Hospital
Torrance, CA
More than a word, care is present in everything you do. At Bay Cities Pet Hospital, a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner, we take action to empower your best care for pets, their families, and yourself.
We are a staple in the South Bay community and have been serving them since 1958. Through outstanding learning and career options, comprehensive benefits, and abundant support, you’ll be nurtured and appreciated for who you are and what you bring to the table. We come together in both the joys and heartaches of our profession to lift each other up through laughter and empathy.
We're looking for experienced, accountable and dedicate team members to grow with us! We have a diverse and unique mix of personalities, including many "lifers" who love our practice, our people and are proud of what we have created. We work as a close-knit team with the emphasis on providing a strong culture of teamwork and collaboration.
We're looking for experienced, accountable and dedicate team members to grow with us! We have a diverse and unique mix of personalities, including many "lifers" who love our practice, our people and are proud of what we have created. We work as a close-knit team with the emphasis on providing a strong culture of teamwork and collaboration.
Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.
Bay Cities Pet Hospital is looking for an experienced Veterinary Assistant to join us as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community with a heightened focus on dentistry and surgical assistance.
As a VA, you’ll play an important role in pets’ lives by providing end-to-end care for our precious patients. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests, to support services including admitting and discharging patients.
Experience & Skills Requirements:
- Support veterinarians to ensure quality veterinary care, advocate for pets, and educate clients.
- With each hospital function, assist veterinarians and the medical team to maximize productivity and maintain positive patient flow. Obtain relevant health history and information from clients and maintain medical charts.
- Must be able to take accurate and complete patient vitals
- Assist with patient surgical procedures – pre-op and post-op
- Communicate with clients about individualized pet health concerns and offer guidance on Thrive Membership options, medications, and additional treatments.
- Use safe restraining techniques, follow standard protocols, and sustain clean, sterile, organized treatment areas, exam rooms, and labs.
- Guide, mentor, and support fellow team members.
- Must be able to obtain and process lab samples (i.e blood, urine, fecal, etc)
- Must assist and support boarding patients and participate in general housekeeping protocols.
- Must be able to obtain Veterinary Assistant Controlled Substance Permit within the first 90 days of employment.
- Be able to perform dental procedures alongside the doctor – inclusive of cleaning/scaling, performing dental radiographs and participate and patient anesthesia monitoring and recovery.
- Knowledge of isolation procedures and protocol and cleaning of isolation rooms and contaminated treatment area or exam room.
- Must have at least 5 years of experience in veterinary medicine.
This is not a comprehensive list of job responsibilities.
You’ll Grow With Us
Here, you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:
- Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
- Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
- A program to designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
- Scholarship opportunities and annual CE funds for RVTs
And, with so many locations nationwide, you can find and move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment. Join us and provide your best care at a clinic that is deeply rooted within its community and bolstered by the resources of Thrive Pet Healthcare.
Benefits – our care in action
We provide benefits spread comprehensively across your mental, physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing designed to meet your needs as a unique individual. Some key benefits include:
- Paid time off including 8-weeks of full-pay parental leave, bereavement to grieve both humans and pets, and time off for new pet adoptions
- Top quality medical, dental, and vision insurance plus health savings account and flexible spending account
- Pet perks including free exams, discounts on products and services, and more at all Thrive Pet Healthcare locations
- Generously subsidized backup and ongoing care support for children, adults, and pets
- Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
- 401k with employer contribution and no waiting period
- Continuing education and development support through our library of free CE courses and paid CE time to complete.
- Scholarship opportunities and student loan support program and so much more!
Compensation negotiable based on credentials and experience with a hourly pay rate starting at $22 - $29 / hour. The actual rate offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, licensing and experience.
At Thrive Pet Healthcare, we celebrate and embrace the uniqueness and diversity of all of our team members, pet parents, and pets. We strive to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where all team members belong and feel empowered.
Salary : $22 - $29