Experienced Veterinary Assistant - 005165

• Experienced Veterinary Assistant
• About the Role
  
  As Veterinary Assistant, you will help create and maintain a positive, low-stress atmosphere for our patients and clients. Duties will include:
  
  
  • Compassionate patient and client care
  • Client education including preventive care
  • Safe and effective patient handling and restraint
  • Medication preparation and administration
  • Radiology and diagnostics
  • Lab sample collection and processing
  • Surgical preparation and assisting
  • Dentistry assistance
  • Medical record-keeping
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  • One or more years of Veterinary Assisting experience
  • Able to proficiently perform Veterinary Assistant duties including but not limited to, those listed above

Why Banfield Pet Hospital

Banfield Pet Hospital is a community of over 800 hospitals across the US, including Preventive care, primary care, emergency, and specialty medicine. We offer world class medicine with hometown care. Together we are taking care of the future of veterinary medicine.

This means taking care of our people. We are passionate about supporting our associates and are committed to your personal career development. At BPH, you will enjoy an inclusive work environment where you can focus on your career, your work life balance, and the patients you serve. Benefits include:

Career Support

• Access to the people and resources of a large veterinary community
• Advancement and leadership opportunities
• Internal CE and development opportunities
• Access to VetFolio, Plumbs App, and more
• Growth minded Team and support

Health & Well Being

• Gold standard associate benefits package
• Medical, dental & vision insurance, a variety of additional coverage options through our generous associate benefits offerings.
• Free mental health care through Health and Wellbeing resources (up to 12 sessions a year for you and loved ones)
• Access to Headspace app
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Paid vacation, paid sick time, holiday pay
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility coverage, gender affirmation services
• Skills assessment compensation increase opportunities 2 times yearly through Associate leveling

Other Perks

• Preventive care for your pets through Wellness plans and a variety of other discounts
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Referral bonus opportunities
• Paid volunteer time yearly
• Opportunities to give back through BPH Charities and community partnerships
• Take your job with you. Supportive transfer options.

Interested? Apply! Or just talk with our PM to determine if the role is right for you. We look forward to hearing from you.

The Veterinary Assistants work with the entire team to support the veterinarians and clients and ensure quality veterinary care for all pets, advocates for pets and clients, educates clients on all aspects of pet health and preventive care, and ensures a safe and effective hospital environment that supports a welcoming team culture.

• Ability to multi-task- Manages multiple tasks at one time; quickly and accurately shifts attention among multiple tasks under distracting conditions without loss of accuracy or appearance of frustration.
• Communication skills - Reads, writes and speaks fluent English, using appropriate grammar, style and vocabulary. Correctly spells commonly used English words and job specific terms.
• Demonstrates exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organizational ability - Demonstrates a systematic approach in carrying out assignments. Is very orderly and excels at cutting through confusion and turning chaos into order.
• Problem solving skills - Demonstrates a strong ability to identify, analyze and solve problems. Translates problems into practical solutions.
• Client service skills - Consistently ensures the team provides the client with attentive, courteous and informative service. Gains and shows personal satisfaction from delivering great service.
• Intellectual ability - Accurately and consistently follows instructions delivered in an oral, written or diagram format. Can provide directions.
• Mathematical ability - Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and to compute rate, ratio and percent; ability to convert units of measurement.
• Computer skills - Comfortably and confidently uses a computer and specialized medical software, as well as Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.

• Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
• Ability to be confident around pets (i.e., dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, etc.)
• Client needs and work volume may often require more than 40 hours per week to complete essential duties of this job. This position requires special hours including working weekends and evenings.
• Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
• The noise level in the work environment is moderately high.
• Requires sufficient ambulatory skills in order to perform duties while at hospital.
• Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb as well as manipulate (lift, carry, move) up to 50 pounds.
• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm-hand-finger dexterity with the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard and operate equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Associate is routinely exposed to a variety of pets that may bite or scratch, and on occasion, exposed to anesthesia, radiation, biological hazards and medication/controlled substances.