Veterinary Technician at Thrive Pet Healthcare – San Antonio, Texas
Thrive Pet Healthcare
San Antonio, Texas, 78201, United States
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Veterinary Technician
Full-time: 4 day, 10 hour shift with rotating Saturdays
2815 N Loop, 1604 E, San Antonio, TX 78232
Vanguard Veterinary Clinic is looking for aVeterinary Technician to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.
At Vanguard Veterinary Clinic, 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.
Role responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Perform venipuncture, IV-catheter, and injection administration
- Generalpatient care
- Set up, position, and take digital radiographs
- Collect, set up, and interpret in-house laboratory and cytology tests
- Monitor anesthesia and assist in surgical procedures
- Educate clients on preventive care
- Properly and safely restrain patients, reliably and with compassion to prepare for procedures performed by technicians and/or doctors.
Experience & Skills Requirements:
- 2 years in veterinary hospital experience
- LVT/RVT/CVT preferred, not required
- Collaborator and willingness to cross train in all areas of a practice
- Self-driven accountability for learning
- Cheerful outlook
- Conflict resolution skills
- Initiative-taker
- Rotational Saturdays!
About the Hospital
We are a full service hospital that offers care for dogs, cats, and pocket/exotic pets. We have a fun, fast-paced facility with a friendly & positive working environment. We value honest and direct communication between staff, management, and clients. We are community-centered, we honor the client/patient relationship, and we respect people and their pets.
We are open Monday-Friday 8am-6pm and Saturday 8am-12pm
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.
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San Antonio, Texas, 78201, United States
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