Emergency Veterinary Technician

United Veterinary Care; Port Charlotte (FL); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-Term Disability

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

401K

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid time off

Referral Bonus

DailyPay

Job summary

The Veterinary Emergency Clinic is seeking an experienced Veterinary Technician to support veterinarians during triage, examinations, and treatments and to provide direct care for canine and feline patients. The role requires strong animal handling skills, reliability, and the ability to work weekends, evenings, and overnights.

Responsibilities include maintaining medical records, preparing surgical patients, performing lab work and imaging, and ensuring high standards of cleanliness and client

Qualifications

• Two or more years of experience as a veterinary technician.
• Experience with veterinary software (Neo, AVImark, Cornerstone).
• Ability to work regular weekends, evenings and/or overnights.

Responsibilities

• Support veterinarians during triage, examinations and treatments.
• Provide direct care to animal patients and restrain dogs/cats as needed.
• Maintain clean and safe facility with proper sanitizing protocols.
• Maintain medical records and prepare surgical patients.
• Perform laboratory work and diagnostic imaging.
• Provide client education and alert DVM to patient issues.
• Restock supplies and ensure proper diet and care for patients.
• Handle, lift and restrain animals safely for procedures.

Skills

Animal handling

Restraint techniques

Medical records

Laboratory work

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Neo

AVImark

Cornerstone

Job description

The Veterinary Emergency Clinic is an equipped trauma and emergency facility that offers many services. Our team members are trained to handle most life‑threatening emergencies that can occur anytime during nights, weekends, and holidays. These emergencies include, but are not limited to, animals being hit by cars, gunshot wounds, lacerations, heatstroke, trouble breathing, fever, infection, snakebite wounds, seizures, and many other conditions.

We are seeking an experienced, organized, and service‑oriented Veterinary Technician to join our team. You will support our veterinarians during triage, examinations and medical treatments and provide direct care to our animal patients. Candidates must be comfortable working with canine and feline animals and know how to restrain them properly for evaluation and procedures. You also need to be familiar with proper cleaning and sanitizing techniques to ensure our facility is safe for our clients.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Our ideal candidate must be passionate about helping people and pets by offering above and beyond veterinary care, must have superb work ethic, be upbeat and friendly. We offer an opportunity to develop your skills and be the best you can be, while you help us grow. This position requires solid veterinary knowledge, excellent attention to detail, and skills such as:

• Maintaining medical records
• Preparing surgical suite and surgical patients
• Filling prescriptions
• Performing laboratory work and diagnostic imaging
• Providing compassionate high‑quality care for boarded and hospitalized pets
• Responsible for ensuring and maintaining proper cleaning protocols for all animal care areas
• Provide client education when appropriate
• Alerting DVM promptly of any patient related issues
• Feed all animals their required diet and in the appropriate rations
• Ensure all dishes, laundry, cages are sanitized daily
• Restock supplies
• Excellent animal handling skills
• Critical evaluation and observation skills
• Have basic organizational and computer skills as well as strong technician skills
• Effective written and oral communication skills with ability to compose routine correspondence
• Possess the ability to work independently, efficiently, and calmly under challenging conditions
• Ability to appropriately handle, lift and restrain animals (dogs, cats) and stand for long periods of time

Technical Requirements:

• I.V. catheter placement
• Phlebotomy
• In-house laboratory
• Surgical prepAnesthesia/surgical monitoring
• X-Rays

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:

• Two or more years of experience as a veterinary technician
• Must be flexible with scheduling and able to work weekends.
• Experience with veterinary software (e.g. Neo, AVImark, Cornerstone)
• Ability to work regular weekends, evenings and/or overnights

Benefits and Perks:

We are dedicated to your well-being and offer a comprehensive package and professional development opportunities to support your work and home life. These include:

• Complimentary Short-Term Disability
• Complimentary Life Insurance; with options to purchase additional voluntary benefits for self or family
• Company Sponsored Employee Assistance Program (Headspace)
• 401K with 100% company match up to 3% and 50% company match up to 5%, eligible after 6 months of employment
• United Health Care UMR Insurance Plans with 3 tiered options; Kaiser for CA Residents
• Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account options
• United Healthcare Dental Insurance; includes a 100% paid premium option for team members
• United Healthcare Vision Insurance options
• Long Term Disability option (paid for by employee)
• Progyny-Fertility and Family Building Support (up to $10,000 per attempt/ $30,000max)
• Team Member Discounts for Pet Care
• Paid time off - inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation
• LGBTQIA+ support with FOLX HEALTHCARE (if UMR enrolled)
• Sword Digital Musculoskeletal & Physical Therapy Program (if UMR enrolled)
• Referral Bonus Program
• DailyPay on Demand