Veterinary Assistant/Customer Service Representative

Salt Marsh Animal Hospital; Johns Island (SC); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Marsh Animal Hospital in Freshfields Village is seeking a Veterinary Assistant to join our brand new facility and compassionate team. You will support veterinarians by assisting during exams and surgeries, caring for pets, and helping ensure a safe, welcoming environment for clients.

Ideal candidates bring a love of animals, strong attention to detail, and good communication skills to explain patient status and care to owners while maintaining records and sterilizing equipment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of animal behavior and husbandry.
• Strong documentation and attention to detail.
• Patience and excellent verbal communication.
• Ability to use medical technologies and analyze information.
• Love of animals and caring demeanor.
• Clinical skills and safety with sterile procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide animal care by assessing animal requirements.
• Assist during operations and prepare instruments.
• Feed and care for animals and maintain cages.
• Maintain supplies, records, and equipment.
• Administer medications and vaccines as directed.
• Explain animal status to owners.
• Ensure sterile conditions and safety compliance.
• Support examinations and anesthesia processes.

Skills

Animal behavior

Animal husbandry

Love of animals

Documentation skills

Analyzing information

Clinical skills

Use of medical technologies

Attention to detail

Patience

Verbal communication

Technical understanding

Job description

Description:

Come and join the team at our brand new hospital located in Freshfields Village. From the moment clients walk into Salt Marsh Animal Hospital, we want them to know that they have brought their pet to a safe place where they will be well taken care of. Our team is caring and compassionate, and they are committed to not only taking care of the pet’s immediate needs, but to forging a long-lasting relationship with the client and their pet.

Veterinarian Assistant Job Responsibilities:

• Provides animal care by determining animal requirements.
• Assists during operations.
• Feeds and cares for animals.
• Maintains supplies and equipment.
• Maintains records.
• Determines animal requirements by conducting examinations and interviews.
• Completes laboratory tests and studies and diagnostic imaging.
• Takes vital signs and collects samples.
• Administers medications, drugs, and vaccines.
• Bandages and wraps wounds.
• Supports animal examinations by assembling required supplies and instruments.
• Explains animal status to owners.
• Prepares surgery table instruments.
• Completes local/regional anesthesia.
• Places catheters.
• Maintains sterile conditions.
• Obtains and verifies medications.
• Cleans animal cages and equipment
• Maintains safe, secure, healthy, and humane environment by sterilizing and wrapping instruments, sanitizing operating areas, verifying shelf life of medications, and complying with legal regulations.
• Enhances service reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of animal behavior
• Animal husbandry
• Love of animals
• Documentation skills
• Analyzing information
• Clinical skills
• Use of medical technologies
• Attention to detail
• Patience
• Verbal communication
• Technical understanding