Emergency Veterinary Assistant - San Jose, CA

The role

You will perform nursing care, patient monitoring, and treatments for animals. You will assist with triage, medication administration, and diagnostic testing in an emergency veterinary setting.

What you will do

• Treat each patient and customer with compassion and care.
• Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
• Triage incoming patients using understanding of common diseases and physical assessment.
• Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications.
• Set-up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy and blood transfusion therapy.
• Contribute to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care.
• Participate in giving and receiving patient rounds.
• Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including imaging.
• Assist in setting-up, performing, and monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia.
• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes.

Required qualifications

• Passionate and motivated
• Team player that is honest and respectful to peers
• Excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group
• Excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and team

Nice to have

• Veterinary technician credentialing
• Trainer role
• Community outreach
• Leadership

Benefits

• Industry-leading compensation
• Latest equipment and technology
• Generous employee pet discount
• Referral rewards
• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• 401K w/ company match
• Paid parental leave - up to 12 weeks of paid leave at 100% of regular salary
• Unlimited Continuing Education opportunities
• Flexible work schedules
• Growth potential
• Weekly groceries for staff
• Monthly and quarterly contests, quarterly hospital outings, and company-wide retreats

About the company

VEG is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States. Their mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most.