ICU Veterinary Technician — Critical Care Expert (On-Call)

AAVMP; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pet insurance (Trupanion) with family-

Continuing education allowance

Health insurance

Parental leave

Flexible work schedules

401k and retirement planning

Paid time off and floating holiday

Job summary

BluePearl Pet Hospital in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Critical Care Veterinary Technician to join the ICU team. The role requires flexibility to work Monday-Thursday 8am-6pm with some on-call expectations, nights, weekends and holidays as needed.

You will triage, monitor ventilator cases, place catheters, and mentor teammates while delivering advanced care to patients and supporting pet parents with compassionate communication.

Responsibilities

• Triage and obtain patient history
• Identify patients at risk for arrest and initiate CPR
• Place IVC's and advanced catheters like Jugular catheters, Central Lines or PICC lines.
• Monitor and care for Ventilator Cases
• Work along side other skilled technicians and assistants in providing excellent, advanced medicine to your patients
• Have a passion for mentoring and training other co-workers.
• Feel gratification of nursing critically ill patients back to health and reunite them with their pet parents

Skills

Triage

CPR

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Tools

Ventilators

Central lines

Job description

BluePearl Pet Hospital in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Critical Care Veterinary Technician to join the ICU team. The role requires flexibility to work Monday-Thursday 8am-6pm with some on-call expectations, nights, weekends and holidays as needed.

You will triage, monitor ventilator cases, place catheters, and mentor teammates while delivering advanced care to patients and supporting pet parents with compassionate communication.