Job Purpose: The Veterinary Services Technician/Assistant assists in the medical care of shelter animals being treated at HSSA, and splits their time working as a technician or assistant in the spay/neuter clinic. Our Three Pillars Lifesaving Programs: Our dedication to ensuring every pet finds a loving home drives us to continually enhance shelter processes and expand adoption efforts, ensuring no animal is left behind. Animal Care and Well-being: We uphold a commitment to the highest standards of care for every animal, providing essential medical attention and enriching activities. Your support makes a lasting difference in the well-being of the pets in our care. Community Engagement and Support: We continuously strengthen programs such as our pet pantry and build meaningful partnerships to keep pets and families together, working to reduce the need for shelter intervention. Essential Functions: - Accurately fill and label medications and treatment sheets. Document treatments for shelter animals accurately and label prescriptions correctly.
- Assist with euthanasia of shelter or publically owned pets as required
- Be available during the day to help restrain animals, update records, change prescriptions, or perform other tasks as requested by the veterinarian or supervisor.
- Assist in maintaining the cleanliness and stocking of the treatment room, shelter pharmacy, clinic and SCU Units at all times.
- Triage and assess emergencies at the shelter when the vet is not physically available. Assist with contacting the on call veterinarian for coordinating treatment and/or transport.
- Obtain samples (blood, urine, feces, swabs, hair) and submit for reference lab testing or perform in house testing on IDEXX in house suite, microscopy (fecals, fungal cultures).
- Administer daily medications, patient care, and other necessary treatments to shelter animals, animals in the Feline and Canine Second Chance Units, foster animals on site, or in other areas of the shelter as needed.
- Daily walk-through of shelter and monitoring for disease and/or post-operative incision problems, assist in managing vet boards and emergencies
- Comfortable and knowledgeable in communicating information and relaying instructions to fosters, owners and volunteers working with animals requiring veterinary care with excellent customer service
- Apply protocol treatment to more common shelter conditions such as CIRD, diarrhea, dermatophytosis, URI
- May drive company vehicle in performance of company duties.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Perform digital radiography unassisted and be familiar with correct positioning, exposure settings, and operation of the processing machine.
- Perform injectable anesthesia protocols, intubation, and anesthetic monitoring. Successfully recover anesthetic patients and recognize when patient needs assistance.
- Assist with Vaccine Clinics (including off-site events) which includes the preparation of vaccines, obtaining weight, TPR of patient and providing animal restraint during the vaccination process.
- Prepare and maintains the highest standard of medical record keeping of all surgical records as well as daily usage of narcotics and other controlled substances in the appropriate forms under the supervision of the Veterinarian.
- May assist in the training of fellow technicians/volunteers.
- Represent HSSA in a professional and positive manner
- Maintain controlled log books and assist in audit when necessary
- Assist with intake or other departments of the shelter or clinic when required
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions or qualifications associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change, for example, emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs, or technological breakdowns in departments.
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