What are the responsibilities and job description for the Weekday Barn Assistant position at Equine Surgery & Medicine?
Responsibilities
- Admit patients
- Help keep barn and surgery area clean
- Hold horses for procedures
- Scrub clean and rinse and help bandage wounds
- Plus, barn tech duties
- Monitoring bandaging
- Take patients outside when needed
- Feed patients as needed
- Communicate with Practice Manager, doctors
- Restrain patients as needed
- Model professionalism and ethical practices
- Promote cooperative working environment among staff members; understand the value of teamwork; show enthusiasm and willingness to perform as necessary to help the practice function as a unit
- Understand and carry out oral and written directions
- Promotes continuous quality improvement
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Demonstrated, advanced understanding of equine veterinary practices
- Ability to read horse body language and perform advanced handling of horses and foals
- Self-motivated lifelong learner
- Works well independently and as part of a team
- Feel and express a genuine liking for animals and for working in an animal-care environment.
- Work under the broad general administrative supervision of the owners and doctors, and use sound personal judgment in selecting methods, establishing priorities, and arriving at conclusions
- May be required to work uncommon hours, overtime, and be subject to recall in emergency situations
- Be flexible in attitude and work habits
- Lift and carry up to 25 pounds
PetVet Care Centers, Inc. is one of the nation's leading operators of veterinary hospitals for companion animals. The company operates over 450 hospitals across multiple states and employs over 11,000 people including over 800 veterinarians. Since its inception, PetVet has been structured around a model that is focused on developing a partnership between the hospitals and the company and providing the highest quality medicine and service.
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