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About the Role
As a veterinary assistant, you’ll play an important role in supporting our doctors and veterinary technicians while helping provide excellent patient care. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys a hands-on veterinary environment and wants to continue building their skills alongside an experienced team.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the veterinary team throughout appointments, procedures, and hospitalized patient care.
- Safely restraining patients for examinations, treatments, and procedures.
- Assisting with triage and obtaining patient histories.
- Collecting and processing laboratory samples and assisting with in-house diagnostics.
- Preparing patients for and assisting with diagnostic imaging, including digital radiographs.
- Providing nursing care and monitoring hospitalized patients with varying levels of medical needs.
- Administering medications as directed by the veterinary team.
- Assisting with surgical preparation and procedures.
- Supporting anesthesia monitoring and patient recovery.
- Communicating treatment information and instructions to clients in a professional and compassionate manner.
- Keeping treatment areas, equipment, and patient spaces clean and organized.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of veterinary assistant experience is required.
- Comfortable safely restraining dogs and cats.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Able to multitask and stay organized in a fast-paced veterinary environment.
- Self-motivated with a desire to continue developing your veterinary knowledge and skills.
- Compassionate approach to both patients and their families.
- Team members must be comfortable around animals and potential exposure to unpleasant odors and noises, bites, scratches, animal waste, and contagious diseases.
- Hiring eligibility may be contingent to a candidate authorizing and completing a satisfactory background check.
Skills
- Sample collection
- Medical histories
- Laboratory testing
- Digital radiographs
- Anesthesia monitoring
Work Type
- part-time
Salary/Compensations
- USD 18.00 - USD 22.00 - hourly
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental, vision, liability, 401k & 401K matching program, life & supplemental insurance, HSA, & FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Vacation and Sick Time for ALL Employees
- Paid Bereavement Program
- Paid Parental Leave Program
- Continuing Education Allowance (applies to licensed/registered/certified roles)
- Tuition Reimbursement Program Available to any AVMA Accredited Veterinary Technology Program
- Referral Bonus Program for most positions!
- Personal Pet Discounts
- Holiday Pay
- Uniform Allowance
- Bonuses
About the Company
- At Yorktown Veterinary Associates, we’re committed to providing exceptional veterinary care while making every patient and client feel comfortable, informed, and cared for.
- Our experienced team provides a wide range of veterinary services, including vaccinations, health certificates, disease prevention, orthopedics, neurosurgery, cardiology, dentistry, weight management, soft tissue surgery, and internal medicine.
- Our staff is made up of friendly, caring, and well-trained professionals who genuinely enjoy working together.
- Many of our team members have been with Yorktown Veterinary Associates for years, creating a supportive and experienced veterinary team where communication, collaboration, and patient care are priorities.
- We’re also proud to provide advanced veterinary medicine supported by state-of-the-art technology.
- Our hospital has in-house laboratory diagnostics, digital radiology, and electronic medical records, giving our veterinary team the tools needed to efficiently evaluate patients, monitor their care, and communicate important information with clients and specialists.