Lead Veterinary Technician & Clinical Leader

Woodforest Animal Hospital; Texas; Hybrid; USD 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

401(k)

Employee pet discounts

Continuing education support

Professional development and advanced

Job summary

Woodforest Animal Hospital in Montgomery, Texas is seeking a Lead Veterinary Technician to provide advanced clinical leadership, including anesthesia, surgery, hospitalization, and emergency patient care, while guiding the clinical team.

The role requires meeting senior technician competencies, training staff, overseeing workflow, and managing inventory per hospital protocols. A strong emphasis on leadership and clinical excellence is expected.

Qualifications

• Veterinary technician experience required.
• Leadership or training experience strongly preferred.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to coach and provide constructive feedback.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced veterinary hospital.
• Strong attention to detail and follow-through.
• Ability to lead while remaining an active member of the clinical team.
• LVT/CVT preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership to veterinary technicians and assistants.
• Help organize clinical workflow and staff assignments.
• Train and mentor new and existing team members.
• Reinforce job responsibilities, hospital protocols, and standards.
• Identify workflow or performance concerns and communicate them to management.
• Lead by example in professionalism, communication, efficiency, and patient care.
• Help maintain efficient exam room and treatment-area workflow.
• Ensure treatments and diagnostics ordered by veterinarians are completed appropriately.
• Help ensure medical documentation, charges, and patient care tasks are completed.
• Assist the team during high-volume periods.
• Recognize when a patient or situation needs to be escalated to a Senior Technician or veterinarian.
• Assist with onboarding and training new clinical team members.
• Evaluate competency and identify areas requiring additional training.
• Reinforce established SOPs and Trainual protocols.
• Provide professional, constructive feedback.
• Help create a positive, accountable, and team-oriented work environment.
• Oversee medical inventory, medications, supplies, and treatment-area stock.
• Monitor inventory levels and ensure essential medications and supplies remain adequately stocked.
• Place and/or coordinate medication and supply orders according to hospital procedures and approved budgets.
• Maintain appropriate par levels and help prevent both stockouts and unnecessary overstocking.
• Monitor expiration dates and inventory rotation.
• Help identify inventory discrepancies, waste, excessive usage, or pricing concerns.
• Ensure medications and supplies are received, stored, and organized appropriately.
• Coordinate with the Practice Manager regarding significant purchases, inventory issues, and vendor concerns.
• Help maintain and manage the hospital’s online pharmacy workflow as assigned.
• Train technicians and assistants on proper inventory usage, organization, and accountability.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Coaching / feedback

Attention to detail

Fast-paced environment

Leadership experience

Education

Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT) or CVT preferred

Tools

SOPs

Trainual protocols

Job description

Woodforest Animal Hospital in Montgomery, Texas is seeking a Lead Veterinary Technician to provide advanced clinical leadership, including anesthesia, surgery, hospitalization, and emergency patient care, while guiding the clinical team.

The role requires meeting senior technician competencies, training staff, overseeing workflow, and managing inventory per hospital protocols. A strong emphasis on leadership and clinical excellence is expected.