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BluePearl Veterinary Technician - Surgery in Tampa, Florida
BluePearl Specialty + Emergency Pet Hospital is hiring an exceptional Veterinary Technician to join our single specialty Town N Country Surgery Team!
You will have the opportunity to work with our amazing Board-Certified Surgeon. Most of our cases are orthopedics, soft tissue, neurological, and more! There is no ER service, no weekend hours, and we are generally closed for the 6 major holidays each year. If you're interested in using the newest innovative anesthetic protocols and anesthetic management, then this is the place for you!
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. 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.
Pay: $20 - $40 / hour
This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through our CareerTrax leveling system.
As a Surgery Veterinary Technician, you will:
Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values.
Ability to take the patient through the entire procedure from start to finish:
Pre-op: Comfortable with intubation, induction, post-operative diagnostics, and prepping patients for surgery
Peri-Op: Monitoring Anesthesia and ability to troubleshoot
Post- Op: Hospitalization care, radiographs, pain management, extubating, fluid therapy
Comfortable with assessing patients, and collecting vitals
Performs physical exam; accurately counts heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate and effort.
Understand normal vital parameters and alerts doctor when abnormal.Set up constant rate infusions (CRI).
Able to set up intravenous fluids.
Administers subcutaneous fluids.
Can operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors.
Able to disconnect and connectpatientsfrom intravenous fluids aseptically.
Ability to monitor patient response to fluid therapy, including signs of overload.
Client communication withpatient histories, care instructions, lab results, patient updates.
Why BluePearl?
Our passion is pets. We offerTrupanionpet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
We encourage you to grow with us. Our technicians 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 his/her career.
In order to transform and lead the industry through innovative quality medicine and care, we understand the importance of continuous learning. 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 value your health and well-being as an associate by providing you with the following:
Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
Parental leave benefits.
Flexible work schedules.
Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans.
A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment.
We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets.
BluePearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and you will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.