Veterinary Technician - Assistant

Clements Ferry Veterinary is seeking a veterinary technician who is a humble, hungry team player ready to start building a long-lasting relationship with our CFV family. 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.

Benefits:

Dental/Vision Insurance, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Retirement plan, Continuing Education, Uniforms, fear-free certification, employee discount, and an encouraging atmosphere to promote personal and professional growth.

Job Type:

Full-time. Clinic hours are 7:30-5:30 M-F. Typically, our technicians work 4 of the 5 days, with a consistent day off each week.

Pay: From $20 per hour, compensated for higher experience and/or license

Expected hours: 36 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental Insurance
• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance
• Scrub, jacket, and shoe allotment
• Educational assistance through Penn Foster
• Fear Free membership
• Continued education through Patterson Veterinary University / ACT online
• Quarterly and annual performance reviews
• Bonuses / profit-sharing

Schedule:

• 9-hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Typically same day off each week
• Potential for overtime, if desired

Experience:

• Veterinary experience: 1 year (Required)
• Customer service experience: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: In person

$40,000 - $55,000 yearly

• 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)

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

Clements Ferry Veterinary is a 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!