Description

Joining a clinic with its own unique identity is like a cross-country car ride with your ears flapping in the breeze. Georgetown Veterinary Hospital is looking to add a compassionate and skilled Veterinary Assistant to our team.

At our Rarebreed clinic, you can help reimagine the veterinary experience in your community. Our energetic environment means you'll thrive in a balanced fun working environment. It's the kind of freedom that feels like running at the speed of light into a 5-story pile of leaves and that's just the beginning. As part of our team, you'll work with the latest technology, gain access to state-of-the-art training facilities, and collaborate with a positive team to deliver the highest quality of care to the pet patients we all love.

Our mission at Georgetown Veterinary Hospital is to assure your pet the best possible health by providing the highest quality veterinary care in a humane, responsible, and caring environment. To achieve this goal, we maintain a top-quality facility staffed by highly experienced and genuinely compassionate personnel. We consider your pet to be an integral part of your family, and we will do our best to strengthen that bond by keeping your pet healthy. https://georgetownvet.com/

Veterinary Assistant

Georgetown Veterinary Hospital in Georgetown , CT

Salary: Starting at $17-$22/hr - based on experience

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Executing treatment order

• Performing blood draws
• Collecting urine samples void, express, cystocentesis
• Administering medications PO, IM, SQ, SL, IV
• Keeping cages clean and sanitized
• Walking, feeding, and picking up after the animals
• Various housekeeping duties (laundry, dishes, taking out garbage etc.)
• Calculating medications mg/kg
• Creating a dosing schedule from the DVM orders
• Communicating with clients via phone and in-person
• Taking Radiographs, CBC, Chem, LYTES, Perform and read urinalysis
• Restraining animals
• Outpatient procedures
• Filling prescribed medications

BENEFITS

We're passionate about helping you reach your greatest pet- ential both at work and at home. As a result, our total compensation package is as outstanding and rewarding as the world's longest belly rub and ear massage combined:

Great pay with competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage

401K with a company match of up to 4%- after 6 months of service

Generous paid time off to help you achieve your purr - fect work-life balance

Employee Ruff- erral Program

Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Commuter Benefits

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance

Mental Health Resources

Company-paid bonding leave

Continuing education yearly allowance for skills development and uniform allowance

Certification fees reimbursement (eligible employees only)

Free monthly wellness meetings focused on ways to reduce stress and anxiety, led by the medical director

Free quarterly financial wellness classes to provide guidance in areas such as student loan debt, budgeting, improving credit scores, mortgages, and refinancing

Plus, special benefits to utilize for your own pet:

Pet Care: Discounts on veterinary services and products

Pet Diagnostics: Discounts on reference lab testing

Pet Food: Discounts on Purina pet foods

Pet Insurance: Discounts available with our preferred vendor

REQUIREMENTS

1 plus year veterinary experience or education

Team-oriented

Ability to multi-task

Ability to lift 50 pounds

Rarebreed Veterinary Partners is a purpose-driven team that places talent first by supporting professionals to thrive in our industry and empowering hospital teams to provide exceptional care for pets and their owners. We pride ourselves on going the extra mile to create exceptional work experiences for our hospital teams. We focus on providing our hospitals with the best culture, tools, and support to allow the staff to focus on what they love most: caring for our animal companions.

Joining our fun and team-first atmosphere comes with a level of support that's hard to find anywhere else. Everything we do is with purpose down to the way we invest in our people and create long-overdue change in the industry . We're hyper-focused on supporting our professionals, so they can focus on bringing the gold standard of medicine to our patients and their families. When it all comes together with the joy of working with pets, our career opportunities are as exhilarating as climbing a toy mountain of a gazillion new squeaky balls .

Employment will require the successful completion of references and background check .

Rarebreed Veterinary Partners provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color , religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.

Learn more about our career opportunities at: https://rarebreedvet.com/careers/

Where uncommon support partners with joy.