Description

Veterinary Technician - Neurology

Full-time: Mon-Thur 7:30am or 8am-6pm with some flexibility to stay later as needed for surgeries. On-call required.

Austin, Texas

Compensation negotiable based on credentials and experience with an hourly pay rate starting at $22 - $28/ hour. The actual rate offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Pet Specialists of Austin is looking for a Neurology Veterinary Technician to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.

At Pet Specialists of Austin, 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.

About You

As a Veterinary Technician, you'll play an important role in pets' lives by providing comprehensive care throughout their journey. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests, to surgery assistance, to support services including admitting and discharging patients.

Experience & Skills Requirements:

• Personal fondness for dogs and cats
• 2+ years working in a veterinary setting; clinic or hospital
• Proven ability to pay strict attention to detail
• Proven level of comfort and acceptance of taking direction from superiors
• Experience with restraint
• Excellent communication skills; ability to express self clearly and professionally
• Solid client and patient relationship skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Enjoys and is able to work as part of a team, as well as an individual contributor
• A positive attitude, even when faced with adversity or under pressure
• The ability to lift objects and patients of up to 50 pounds
• The ability to follow directions with and without supervision
• Confidence in running anesthesia and understanding the anesthetic recovery process for basic and complex cases

Role Responsibilities:

Assist service leads and teammates in the successful day-to-day operation of Pet Specialists of Austin. Perform technical and administrative functions while adhering to company-wide practices, protocols, and procedures. Provide top quality care and customer service to all patients and clients. Demonstrate solid technical aptitude and take a proactive approach to assist service leads and teammates on varying tasks each day. Maintain patience and compassion at all times. Work with, or under, supervision of a doctor, lead technician, or an approved colleague until receiving the approval to work on various tasks, independently. This process will be completed by getting your training manual signed off, completed, and approved. Our goal is for you to be an independent worker who values being part of a team

• A proactive team player who takes direction well and supports day-to-day tasks as assigned by supervisors.
• Performs patient admission/discharge
• Including but not limited to client greeting, history taking, and vitals
• Assist doctors in the examination of patients
• Obtaining diagnostics (blood draws, radiographs, doppler blood pressures, etc.)
• Restraint for examination
• Assist and/or perform radiographic set-up and execution
• Perform blood draws and catheter placement
• Induce, maintain, and recover anesthesia, to be adapted via training to the MRI suite and surgical suite.
• Provide handling and disposal of stocked items, as well as cleaning of the treatment area
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with clients.
• Explain post procedure care and at home care instructions
• Discuss and explain long-term care of new diagnoses
• Provide basic animal husbandry and care for in-hospital patients
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly tasks as assigned by supervisor
• Be mindful of the overall cleanliness of the practice

About the Hospital

Pet Specialists of Austin is a 24 hour emergency and specialty referral hospital that invests heavily in our teams' growth and development. Opened in 2021, we pride ourselves on providing the Austin area with compassionate and quality emergency, and specialty care including neurology surgery, internal medicine and oncology. We provide an emotionally intelligent work environment and strive to maintain a positive work/life balance.

Benefits - our care in action

Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members’ emotional, physical, professional, and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance, and short- and long- term disability plans, we offer eligible team members:

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) with employer match
• Mental health resources, including 24/7 access to Lyra Health
• Paid parental leave
• Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
• Employer-sponsored childcare and elder care
• Personalized care for every family-forming journey
• Discretionary funds and FREE CE courses
• Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
• Student loan management tools and assistance

Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.

We listen to your needs and then meet them. Through training and free CE experiences, your career development can flourish. And in our locally rooted, nationally connected community, you’ll be able to make connections, access opportunities and find support with ease.

Support for you is as vital as the support you provide.

You’ll Thrive With Us

At Thrive, you have the opportunity to develop your career in a way that best suits your goals. Take advantage of our comprehensive learning and skill-building programs to enhance your expertise. 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 to designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
• Scholarship opportunities and tuition reimbursement
• Move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment - across the nation.
• Leadership training for a thriving and long career in the veterinary profession.

About Thrive

Vet-founded and Austin-born, Thrive Pet Healthcare has expanded to over 380 partner hospitals nationwide, united by a mission to shape the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners.

We bridge general practice, urgent care, specialty, and emergency care, and our locally rooted, nationally connected hospitals benefit from Thrive's extensive resources while maintaining their unique identities.

We believe that supporting our people is the key to helping pets thrive through every stage of life.

Join us where #WeThriveTogether. We provide customizable professional development opportunities, a supportive work environment that values work-life rhythms, and 24/7 mental health support.

At Thrive Pet Healthcare, we are committed to creating a culture where everyone from any background can be heard, respected, and valued. We pledge to build an inclusive environment nurtured by respectful curiosity to support, encourage, and celebrate the diverse voices of our teams and the communities we serve.