Licensed Veterinary Technician - Ophthalmology Practice Leader

AAVMP; Tampa, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

Life insurance

401k

Paid time off

Pet benefits

Job summary

Eye Care For Animals Tampa is seeking an experienced Practice Leader to guide our hospital team and enhance patient and client care. The PL role is 70% Veterinary Technician work and 30% leadership, overseeing hiring, budgets, and KPIs.

You will foster a positive culture, drive CQI, and ensure service standards while coordinating with leadership to maintain a safe, efficient practice.

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years veterinary technician/assistant experience.
• Licensed veterinary technician in good standing.
• Proficient with IV catheter placement, blood work and injections (IV/IM/SQ).
• Experience monitoring anesthesia and using monitoring equipment.
• Ability to lead, manage and coach staff at all levels.
• Demonstrated budgeting and financial reporting skills (P&L).

Responsibilities

• Oversee hospital business activities including staffing, training and budgeting.
• Monitor and analyze KPIs and implement improvements.
• Maintain inventory and inventory control systems; enforce safety procedures.
• Lead and support staff, including hiring and firing decisions.
• Promote a positive culture, teamwork and CQI to meet goals.
• Communicate clinic values, standards of service and care to the team.

Skills

Team leadership

Data analysis

Budgeting

Communication

Client service

Empathy towards clients and animals

Staff management

Decision making

Problem solving

Veterinary technician experience

Education

Veterinary Technician licensure

Tools

Excel

Job description

Eye Care For Animals Tampa is hiring an experienced Practice Leader to lead our amazing team!

If you areinterested in a unique opportunity to be a part of something great and want to lead a team of professionals dedicated to providing excellent patient and customer care, this is the opportunity you have been looking for!

Job Overview

The Practice Leader (PL) is critical to the success of the hospital, ensuring a positive culture built on shared values and direct communication, creating operational efficiencies, and problem-solving to improve client service and employee engagement. This position is 70% Veterinary Technician and 30% Practice Leader. Typically, the PL is the “Integrator” on the hospital’s accountability chart and participates in the Pathway Planning leadership meetings. The manager exercises sound judgment, and the willingness and capability to make decisions.

PL oversees the business activities of the hospital, including hiring and training hospital staff; working with Eye Care for Animals Leadership team to prepare and manage budgets; monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators; maintaining inventory and an inventory control system, and implementing safety and security procedures.

Culture and Work Environment

• Communicates the practice’s values and mission to the team. Motivates staff, and helps build and maintain morale.
• Upholds core values and standards.
• Holds regular staff meetings, including a component of mandatory training on standards of service and standards of care.
• Promotes a cooperative working environment among staff members; understands the value of teamwork.
• Is enthusiastically willing to perform as necessary to help the hospital function as a unit.
• Promotes continuous quality improvement (CQI) to ensure the practice’s success and achieve the vision.

Requirements

• 5+ years of veterinary technician/assistant experience required
• Veterinary Technician licensure required
• Proficient in IV catheters placement, blood work, and IV, IM, and SQ injections
• Proficient in monitoring anesthesia and working with various monitoring equipment
• Team player
• Ability to analyze various sources of data in order to establish priorities and initiate operational programs
• Sound personal judgment in decision-making
• Capable of leading, managing, and coaching staff at all levels
• Demonstrated competence in all aspects of staff management, including hiring and firing
• Demonstrated ability to show empathy toward clients and treat animals with respect and compassion.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills;
• A commitment to outstanding client service.
• Demonstrated competence in budgeting and financial reporting, including reading and analyzing a P&L statement
• Solid math and Excel/spreadsheet skills.
• Three years of supervisory experience.
• Preferred: three years or more of managing a veterinary practice.
• Ability to lift objects weighing 40 pounds without assistance and objects weighing more than 40 pounds with assistance.
• Availability to occasionally work uncommon hours and overtime, and to be subject to recall for business emergencies.

Why work at the Eye Care For Animals Tampa?

We are operating out of a newly renovated and well-equipped facility and want to fill it with devoted and highly skilled staff. We have a passion for supporting an emotionally intelligent atmosphere with a culture that understands the importance of a great work/life balance! This area is a wonderful place to live and work!

We offer an amazing benefits package that includes health, vision, dental, life, 401k, paid time off as well as pet benefits!