Animal Services Veterinary Technician

Salary: $49,502.54 - $73,263.77 annually
Location: Various locations within the City of El Paso, TX
Job type: Unclassified, non-exempt

About the Role

Under general supervision, supervise daily clinic administration and participate in animal health care. Perform a variety of tasks to provide medical care and evaluations on shelter animals based on veterinarian protocols, direction, and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Provide animal health care:
  • Deliver routine, surgical, and critical animal health care under direction of veterinarian.
  • Perform physical examinations, anesthesiology, and radiology procedures.
  • Immobilize animals for treatments, surgery, ultrasounds, and endoscopy studies.
  • Monitor vital signs during surgery and recovery.
  • Oversee and care for animal hospital quarantine and necropsy areas.
  • Handle and restrain animals for examination and treatment.
  • Prepare and dispense prescribed medications and other pharmaceuticals.
  • Monitor sanitation, schedule, and oversee routine parasite control.
• Oversee daily clinic administration:
  • Participate in scheduling procedures and coordinate personnel resources.
  • Compile and input data into the computerized medical records system.
  • Coordinate international species inventory system record keeping with curatorial staff.
  • Contact and correspond with other institutions regarding specific and unique clinical cases.
  • Ensure maintenance, cleanliness, and sterility of veterinary facilities.
  • Prepare surgery room for surgery.
  • Order and maintain inventory control of medical supplies and veterinary drugs.
• Perform, conduct, and analyze tests:
  • Perform tests to provide data for research or diagnosis and treatment of disease in animals and its probable source.
  • Direct or perform basic lab tests, such as cultures for bacteria, blood work, fecal analysis, tissue stains, urinalysis, and related tests.
  • Process and send samples to outside laboratories for blood work profiles, pathology, microbiology, and disease diagnosis.
  • Perform necropsies of animals.
  • Write and input data into medical records.
  • Arrange for pathology lab consulting firms and disposition of remains.
• Supervise assigned staff:
  • Schedule, assign, instruct, guide, and check work.
  • Appraise employee performance.
  • Provide training and development.
  • Enforce personnel and safety rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.
  • Interview applicants.
  • Recommend hiring, termination, discipline, merit pay, or other employee status changes.

Requirements

• Education and Experience:
  • Graduation from a Veterinary Medical Technician program, or
  • Associate’s Degree or higher in Animal Health, Biology, Zoology, or related field, or
  • High School Diploma/GED and two (2) years of paraprofessional or technical animal health care experience assisting a veterinarian.
• Licenses and Certificates:
  • Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state by time of appointment.
  • Euthanasia Technician Certification (Health and Safety Code Chapter 821) within the first year of employment (renewed every three years).

Pay

$49,502.54 - $73,263.77 annually