Experience Veterinary Assistant/Technician

Oakes Animal Hospital is a 5 doctor family owned general practice offering preventative/wellness care, sick visits, surgery, dentistry, dietary consults, behavior consults, and radiology in house. We are dedicated to "helping the pets and the people, treating people as we want to be treated and caring for pets as our own". We achieve this mission by following our 5 core values: Caring

• the overarching value, the reason we are here. Service Attitude
• treating clients and team members as we want to be treated and pet patients as if they were our own. Drive
• working hard with focus. Always looking to improve our skills and selves. Integrity
• the quality of being honest and fair Grace
• giving clients and team member the benefit of the doubt (we all will need grace at some point).

We live and work by these core values in our daily mission to provide quality patient care, excellent customer service, and provide a positive enjoyable work environment. We are seeking motivated and passionate individuals to join our team in the role of veterinary assistant/veterinary technician. Job Responsibilities (including, but not limited to): Assist veterinarians with patient care and treatments Restrain cats and dogs in a safe and compassionate manner for exams and treatments Monitor and husbandry for hospitalized pets Prepare prescriptions Obtain and complete routine In house laboratory work (intestinal parasites screenings, urinalysis, heartworm test, felv/fiv test, parvo test, ear cytologies, etc) Preparing samples for send out laboratory testing Administer injections (intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous) and medications are directed by the veterinarian Educating clients on core and non core vaccines available, and other preventative care as recommended by our veterinarians tailored to individual patient lifestyles and clients budgetary needs Radiographic positioning and capturing images Maintain detailed and accurate medical files and client communications Venipuncture and catheter placement Hospital Cleaning Facilitating appointments

• obtaining patient history, assisting veterinarian with exam and treatments Discharging patients

Benefits:

Competitive Pay

• starting at $15.

00 / hour for experienced veterinary assistant (higher starting pay for registered veterinary technician). Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance (after 90 days full time employment) Short/Long Term Disability Insurance (after 90 days full time employment) Simple IRA (after 1 year of employment) Paid Time Off (after 6 months of full time employment) Employee Discount Program Experience and Education 1 years veterinary technician/assistant experience

Pay:

From $15.00 per hour

Benefits:

Dental insurance Employee discount Health insurance Paid time off Retirement plan Vision insurance

Work Location:

In person