Veterinary Technician - Anesthesia

About the role

BluePearl Pet Hospital in Brandon, FL is hiring an experienced Veterinary Technician to join our Surgery Team. We are now offering a sign-on bonus for qualified applicants.

Pay

This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through our competency leveling system. A BluePearl Surgery Technician is responsible for some post-operative client communication and must be able to work independently while contributing to a larger team goal.

Requirements

• A minimum of two or more years of experience in a veterinary hospital.
• A rotating on call schedule is required once training has been completed.

Qualifications

• Prefer to have a minimum of two or more years of experience in a veterinary hospital.
• A rotating on call schedule is required once training has been completed.

Skills

• Review patient history, weight, and health status.
• Perform pre-anesthetic exams (vitals, bloodwork prep, radiographs).
• Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values.
• Utilize their ability to place peripheral intravenous catheters.
• Perform physical exam; accurately count heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate and effort.
• Induce, monitor, and recover stable and unstable patients from anesthesia.
• Recognize, troubleshoot, and treat adverse anesthetic events with clinician support and approval.
• Place NG tubes and sampling catheters.
• Blood type and cross match patients in need of blood transfusion, and administer blood products using medical quality gold standard of care.
• Understand normal vital parameters and alert doctor when abnormal.
• Able to set up intravenous fluids.
• Able to administer subcutaneous fluids.
• Able to operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and troubleshoot errors.
• Able to disconnect and connect patient from intravenous fluids aseptically.
• Able to monitor patient response to fluid therapy including signs of overload.

Benefits

• Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
• We encourage you to grow with us. Our associates are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience.
• We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops.
• As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in their career.
• We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.
• We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals.
• We are all in this together.

Pay

$20.00 - $40.00 / hour

Schedule

Rotating on call schedule is required once training has been completed.