What are the responsibilities and job description for the Veterinary Technician position at CareVet?
Meisels Animal Hospital is seeking a responsible Veterinary Technician to join our busy small animal veterinary hospital in Elmwood Park, NJ. We practice both the art and the science of veterinary medicine to the highest degree, advocating for each pet and educating each pet owner to provide the most complete care. Compassion describes our outlook. We offer digital radiography, digital dental radiography, complete laboratory, therapeutic laser, and more. In addition to regular small animal practice services, we also perform routine and dental surgery, so proficiency in anesthesia, radiology, and surgery is required. We offer good working hours with no weekends, generous benefits including health insurance and retirement plan, and pleasant working conditions with a great team!
You should be a good communicator and confident with both people and animals. You should have excellent technical skills, be good with your hands, and be compassionate. You must be trustworthy and be motivated to do your best work each and every day. A positive outlook on life and work is very helpful.
We believe in a Whole Person Approach when it comes to our veterinary teams. This includes a living wage for all hospital Team Members, best-in-class benefits, mental health support, and continuous education. Investing in our teams and sharing the growth that they are instrumental in driving are top priorities, which is why every Team Member is eligible to participate in our revenue sharing program as well. All positions come with growth opportunities – whether you are seeking skill development to advance your career or to build additional capacity to better serve your community, we custom tailor plans for each Team Member’s career journey.
Duties And Responsibilities
Skills:
dental
intravenous catheter placement administration
Benefits
You should be a good communicator and confident with both people and animals. You should have excellent technical skills, be good with your hands, and be compassionate. You must be trustworthy and be motivated to do your best work each and every day. A positive outlook on life and work is very helpful.
We believe in a Whole Person Approach when it comes to our veterinary teams. This includes a living wage for all hospital Team Members, best-in-class benefits, mental health support, and continuous education. Investing in our teams and sharing the growth that they are instrumental in driving are top priorities, which is why every Team Member is eligible to participate in our revenue sharing program as well. All positions come with growth opportunities – whether you are seeking skill development to advance your career or to build additional capacity to better serve your community, we custom tailor plans for each Team Member’s career journey.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Checks patient medical records for past histories, enters treatments and charges in computer.
- Restrains animals for veterinarian as required.
- Maintains and communicates client educational material in an efficient manner.
- Applies knowledge and skills in drawing blood, accessing veins quickly, and minimizing patient discomfort to perform testing procedures.
- Performs specimen testing procedures accurately on blood, urine, and other samples according to medical orders using all related equipment and computers.
- Assists veterinarian with in-patient nursing care in daily treatments to include maintaining and calculating IV fluids, IV catheter placement and maintenance, administering hospital medications, wound care, nutrition, and patient assessment.
- Obtains diagnostic quality dental radiographs, chart dental abnormalities, perform dental scaling and polishing, assist veterinarian with oral surgery
- Induces, maintains, and recovers patients for general anesthesia including monitoring vital signs
- Prepares patients for surgery including clipping and sterile skin prep, proper positioning, assisting in surgery
- Communicates with clients describing prescribed medication, possible complications and warnings.
- Utilizes computer system to enter and reference patient information as needed.
- Performs necessary lab work including CBCs, blood chemistry profiles, urinalysis, heartworm tests, FELV/FIV tests, fecal tests, cultures and sensitivities and fungal cultures.
- Documents test results and delivers to appropriate personnel promptly.
- Prepares specimens for mailing to laboratories according to practice requirements.
- Assures all necessary exam room materials are readily available.
- Schedules and/or performs routine maintenance and quality controls of laboratory equipment and provides training to other staff as required.
- Ensures cleanliness of exam room at all times.
- Perform radiographic imaging including entry of patient information, proper positioning of patient and radiographic technique for diagnostic quality images and preparing forms and images to be e-mailed or referred as needed.
- Takes medical histories and examination of patients, reviews routine vaccinations and testing for currency, administers vaccines and medications according to veterinarians' orders.
- Performs departmental housekeeping duties.
- Admits and discharges patients.
- Takes, processes and logs prescription refills in-house, call out pharmacy and online pharmacy.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills:
dental
intravenous catheter placement administration
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability
- Life insurance
- 401k with match
- Employee assistance program
- Paid time off
- Continuing education
