ICU Equine Veterinary Technician

Description

The Position: Our Intensive Care Team delivers exceptional nursing care to hospitalized patients, ensuring their comfort, safety, and well-being. This team collaborates closely with both our intern veterinary staff and specialized veterinary experts. The ideal candidate will have prior equine veterinary experience and VTNE certification. Experience with triage and foal care, along with outstanding customer service, is essential. The role requires a self-motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and excels at multitasking. Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to identify, analyze, and resolve issues effectively, are also key qualifications.

The ICU shifts are 3- 12 hour shifts with days starting at 7am and nights starting at 7pm. The current shifts available are Friday through Sunday night shift and Sunday through Tuesday day shift. 

What We Offer: We offer competitive wages ranging from $21 to $26 per hour with a weekend and night shift differential for certain shifts, along with an excellent benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, supplemental options, and a 401(k) match after six months. Additional benefits include competitive PTO accrual, employee discounts, and a continued education stipend. Our full benefits package is available upon request with a completed application.

Starting Responsibilities:

Prioritize patient well-being by providing comprehensive daily treatments and nursing care for all hospitalized patients. This includes monitoring colic parameters, performing venipuncture, placing catheters, and maintaining gastric tubes. Oversee high-risk patients’ post-sedation and post-anesthesia and deliver post-surgical care for both elective and emergency procedures. Prepare medications, fluids, constant rate infusions (CRIs), and oxygen treatments as needed. Perform and analyze bloodwork, quickly recognizing and communicating abnormalities to ensure timely interventions.

Effective communication with the veterinary team, technical support team, and clients. Identify patient abnormalities promptly and communicate findings efficiently. Provide empathetic client support, answer questions thoughtfully, and practice active listening. Accurately update patient medical records using appropriate veterinary medical terminology.

Maintains a clean and organized environment, including treatment rooms and patient stalls, adhering to cleaning protocols and biosecurity standards. Stock supplies as needed and contribute to departmental tasks during each shift.

Who We Are:

At Littleton Equine Medical Center, we are deeply passionate about our profession and the people within it. We are attentive to the needs of our coworkers, clients, and patients, holding ourselves to high standards and consistently maintaining integrity. We are committed to fostering professionalism and a lifelong dedication to continual professional growth, taking time to teach and mentor along the way. Littleton Equine Medical Center and its team strive to uphold the highest standards of patient care, communicating effectively to ensure these standards are consistently met.

Qualifications

Education/Experience: Basic level of horse handling experience required. Preference given to credentialed technicians who have graduated from an AVMA accredited school of veterinary technology and successfully completed the VTNE.

Language Ability: Ability to understand both written and verbal instructions regarding patient care and treatments. Ability to appropriately chart patient parameters, subjective observations, and independently utilize provided resources for standard operating procedures. Ability to effectively communicate and respond to questions from managers, doctors, and clients.

Math Ability: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as drug doses, dilutions, percentages, rate, ratio and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra, add subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions.

Computer Skills: Computer literacy in common computer software programs.

Special Skills: Equine restraint/handling and horsemanship skills.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics listed here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions throughout all four seasons. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather) and works near moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to the risk of radiation and chemical exposure. Knowledge of MSDS use and personal protective gear including (but not limited to) gloves, masks, respirators, and eyewash stations are required. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, employees may have to stand for long periods of time, jog horses in hand, restrain difficult horses, and may be required to lift 50-70 lbs.

Salary : $21 - $26