What are the responsibilities and job description for the Veterinary Technician Assistant position at Southern Pines Healthy Pet Clinic?
Reports to: Lead Tech ( department specific)
Part time, hourly position.
Summary: The Technician assistant is responsible for animal handling and care of dogs and cats who are being treated through the clinic’s programs; providing professional customer service to all clinic clients, providing and recording medical care; maintaining a strong line of communication with the office staff and other clinic teams; and assisting veterinary technicians in all aspects of animal care and treatment.
Specific duties of the Technician Assistant include, but are not limited to:
- Greeting clients
- Restrain and comfort animals during their treatment or examination
- Monitor animals after surgery
- Filling medicines prescribed by veterinarian
- Walking and caring for hospitalized patients
- Maintaining a clean and safe working environment
Southern Pines Expectations of Employee:
- Believes in the mission of Southern Pinesand understands the lifesaving relationship between all three branches of our organization
- Treats animals humanely, with love and concern (both on and off the job) and transmits these values to others
- Demonstrates flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload
- Willingness to mentor volunteers, to treat them with respect and gratitude as members of our team, and to gently correct them when necessary
- Treats all members of our staff with respect, acceptance, kindness, and grace
- Must be able to report to work at the scheduled time, can be depended on to complete work in a timely, accurate, and thorough manner
- Able to work some weekends
- Demonstrates a willingness and enthusiasm for a continued state of learning regarding Animal Welfare and Animal Health.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions or qualifications associated with the job. While this is intended to be a reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change, for example, emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, or technological breakdowns in departments.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: From $11.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Experience:
- Veterinary experience: 1 year (Preferred)
Language:
- any secondary languages? (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $11
