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Description
Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Austin, TX
Looking for an Emergency Veterinary Assistant job in Austin, TX? Join a fast-paced emergency and critical care team where you can support patient care, build hands-on clinical skills, and make a real difference for pets and the people who love them. This Austin veterinary assistant opportunity is ideal for dependable, compassionate candidates who stay calm under pressure and want to grow in emergency veterinary medicine.
Why Join This Team
This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on patient care, supports both doctors and technicians with confidence, and values excellence, integrity, adaptability, growth, and teamwork. You will be part of a setting where flexibility, kindness, accountability, and learning on the job matter every day.
What You’ll Do
- Support doctors and technicians with animal restraint, examinations, procedures, treatments, radiographs, rehabilitation care, and patient handling.
- Assist with triage, history collection, vital signs, laboratory testing, and preparation of supplies and equipment for patient care.
- Help maintain clean, organized prep, treatment, and procedure areas, including instrument cleaning, wrapping, and sterilization.
- Provide basic patient care such as bathing, nail trims, feeding, walking, and support for infectious disease and end-of-life care.
- Assist with phlebotomy, peripheral IV catheter placement, urinary catheter care, medication administration support, dosage calculations, CPR support, and infusion monitoring as directed.
- Restock supplies and help with essential hospital upkeep, including laundry, janitorial tasks, and cleaning biological debris when needed.
What You Bring
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 1 year in-hospital/shelter veterinary experience.
- Basic customer service and computer skills.
- Strong judgment, dependability, adaptability, and the ability to stay composed in high-stress situations.
- A team-first mindset, clear communication, and the ability to work both collaboratively and independently.
- Willingness to learn, accept feedback, and continue building new skills in a hospital environment.
Work Environment
This role requires frequent standing, bending, and stooping, along with lifting up to 40 pounds and requesting assistance for heavier lifts. Team members may be exposed to imaging equipment, gas sterilization, infectious disease risks, chemotherapy agents, controlled substances, unpleasant odors and noises, aggressive animals, bites, scratches, animal waste, and other common hazards in a busy veterinary hospital setting.
Benefits
- Complimentary Short Term Disability
- Complimentary Life Insurance; with options to purchase additional voluntary benefits for self or family
- Company Sponsored Employee Assistance Program (Headspace)
- 401K with 100% company match up to 3% and 4% company match for your 5% of contributions, eligible after 6 months of employment
- Florida Blue Insurance Plans with 3-tiered options; Kaiser for CA Residents
- Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account or Health Reimbursement Account options
- United Healthcare Dental Insurance; includes a 100% paid premium option for team members
- United Healthcare Vision Insurance options
- Long Term Disability option (paid for by employee)
- Progyny-Fertility and Family Building Support
- Team Member Discounts for Pet Care
- Paid time off-inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation
- Digital Musculoskeletal Support
- Referral Bonus Program
- DailyPay on Demand
- Continuing education benefits
- Uniform reimbursement
- Partnership with Purdue University’s Online Veterinary Technician program
If you are dependable, compassionate, and ready to grow in emergency and critical care veterinary medicine, we’d love to hear from you.
United Veterinary Care 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.