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Urgent Care Senior Veterinary Assistant

UrgentVet • Falls Church, VA • Posted 8 days ago via ZipRecruiter

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In-person • Full-time • Senior Level

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UrgentVet is seeking a full-time Senior Veterinary Assistant for their urgent care clinic. The role involves providing outstanding patient care, team leadership, and client service in a fast-paced, state-of-the-art environment. The ideal candidate will be energetic, have excellent communication skills, and be able to multi-task in a hands-on environment. This position requires flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays, and may include travel for on-site training and onboarding.

Responsibilities

  • Provide outstanding patient care
  • Lead team efforts
  • Deliver client service in a fast-paced environment
  • Handle animals including patient restraint, sample collection, and monitoring
  • Perform clinical skills such as phlebotomy, catheter placement, laboratory analysis, and drug calculation
  • Maintain facility and ensure cleanliness
  • Educate clients on animal care

Qualifications

Required

  • Professionalism
  • Dependability
  • Healthy and positive communication skills
  • Ability to multi-task in a hands-on environment
  • Energetic and a people-and-pet person
  • Excellent work ethic
  • Social and organizational skills
  • Willingness to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays
  • Ability to lift 40 lbs
  • Prior customer service experience
  • Prior experience working with animals in a hospital setting

Full Job Description

Job Description

Job Description
Description
UrgentVet bridges the gap between daytime general practice and emergency/overnight care, offering after-hours care for canine and feline patients without the additional expense of emergency clinic fees. Our hospitals offer care for common urgent cases, including wound management, ear infections, vomiting/diarrhea, and euthanasia. Each of our paperless clinics is specially designed to deliver efficient care and equipped with cloud-based EMR, digital x-ray, and a full suite of IDEXX in-house lab equipment.

Are you looking for an opportunity to make an impact in your community while tackling a challenging, variety of tasks and the ability to helps animals among a great team of people? Our clinic is seeking a Full-time Senior Veterinary Assistant to help provide outstanding patient care, team leadership, and client service in a fast-paced, state-of-the-art urgent care clinic.

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Ideal Candidate
  • Demonstrates professionalism, dependability, healthy and positive communication skills, and the ability to multi-task in a hands-on environment
  • Energetic people-and-pet person with excellent work ethic and social and organizational skills
  • Willing to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays
  • Full-time employees may be required to travel for on-site training and onboarding
  • Prior customer service experience
  • Prior experience working with animals in a hospital setting
  • Must be able to lift 40 lbs

Skills, Knowledge, & Expertise
  • Animal handling experience including patient restraint, sample collection, and monitoring
  • Clinical skills including phlebotomy, catheter placement, laboratory analysis, and drug calculation
  • Additional duties including facility maintenance and client education

Benefits
  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision Options)
  • 401k Match
  • Generous paid time off (PTO)
  • Six (6) weeks of paid Parental Leave
  • One (1) Work/Life Balance day off
  • Short-term and long-term disability options
  • Supplemental insurance options
  • Discounted Veterinary Care
  • Scrub allowance
  • Hands-on and E-training
  • Professional growth opportunities
  • Tuition assistance for prospective Veterinary Technician Students
  • Tuition reimbursement for Credentialed/Registered Veterinary Technicians