Veterinary Assistant

Description

Position at Corona Del Mar Animal Hospital

At Corona del Mar Animal Hospital, a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner, you will have the support, tools, and resources to elevate your skills. As a hospital deeply rooted in the local community, you will experience the best of both worlds: a genuine local feel with the benefits of Thrive's national resources. As a Veterinary Assistant, you'll play an important role in pets' lives by providing comprehensive care throughout their journey.

Who we are

At Corona Del Mar Animal Hospital, we offer primary care for dogs and cats in Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach, Newport, and Irvine. Our 4 veterinarians and support team are dedicated to providing quality care and great experience for pets and pet owners in our community. As a fully equipped facility, we can offer a wide range of veterinary care. Corona del Mar has fostered a culture and brisk pace that combines personal growth and uncompromising animal care with fun and hard work!

Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.

As a Veterinary Assistant, you’ll play an important role in pets’ lives by providing end-to-end care for our precious patients. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests, to support services including admitting and discharging patients.

Role Responsibilities:

• Support veterinarians to ensure quality veterinary care, advocate for pets, and educate clients during outpatient appointments.
• With each hospital function, assist veterinarians and the medical team to maximize productivity and maintain positive patient flow.
• Obtain pertinent health history and information from clients and maintain medical charts.
• Assist in maintaining relevant, comprehensive medical records with the support of practice systems.
• Perform basic nursing skills such as taking vital signs, performing nail trims, anal gland expression, venipuncture and administering injections.
• Use safe restraining techniques, follow standard protocols, and sustain clean, sterile, organized treatment areas, exam rooms, and labs.
• Prepare patients, medications and equipment for examination.
• Prepare patient lab samples for in-house and reference lab diagnostic screening.
• Communicate with clients about individualized pet health concerns.
• Be willing to guide, mentor, and support fellow team members.

Experience & Skills Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to enter medical notes and maintain medical records; can type 45 wpm minimally.
• Able to lift 40lbs unassisted.
• Strong desire to practice empathetic, gold standard medicine benefiting our patients through all life stages.
• Positive, kind and provide trustworthy communication to patients, team members and clients.
• Have the desire to constantly grow and advance as a valued team member!

Ideal candidates will possess a minimum of two years’ experience as a veterinary assistant in an animal care facility. We are open Mon-Fri, 7am-5:30pm, Sat 7am-1pm. A typical work week consists of five, 8-hour shifts which include rotating Saturdays.

You’ll Grow With Us

Here, you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:

• Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
• Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
• A program designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
• ​​​​​​​Earn your AVMA-CVTEA Accreditation and become a Vet Tech through our fully accredited distance learning program for veterinary technicians
• Scholarship opportunities and tuition reimbursement

And, with so many locations nationwide, you can find and move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment. Join us and provide your best care at a clinic that is deeply rooted within its community and bolstered by the resources of Thrive Pet Healthcare.

Benefits – our care in action

We provide benefits spread comprehensively across your mental, physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing designed to meet your needs as a unique individual. Some key benefits include:

• ​​​​​​Paid time offincluding 8-weeks of full-pay parental leave, bereavement to grieve both humans and pets, and time off for new pet adoptions
• Top quality medical, dental, and vision insuranceplus health savings account and flexible spending account ​​​​​​​
• Pet perksincluding free exams, discounts on products and services, and more at all Thrive Pet Healthcare locations
• Generously subsidized backup and ongoing care supportfor children, adults, and pets
• Mental health benefitsincluding coaching and therapy sessions
• 401k with employer contributionand no waiting period
• Continuing education and development supportthrough our library of free CE coursesand paid time off to complete
• Scholarship opportunitiesand student loan supportprogram and so much more!

Compensation is negotiable based on credentials and experience with an hourly pay rate of$21- $23 /hour. The actual rate offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.