Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Examine animals to detect and determine the nature of diseases or injuries.
• Treat sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds, performing surgery, or other therapies.
• Inoculate animals against various diseases.
• Collect body tissue, feces, blood, urine, or other body fluids for examination and analysis.
• Perform laboratory procedures and diagnostic tests, including parasitology, hematology and urinalysis.

• Operate diagnostic equipment, such as radiographic and ultrasound equipment, and interpret the resulting images.
• Administer anesthetics, perform surgery, dental extraction, and monitor patients during surgery and recovery with the assistance of the technical team.
• Follow discharge guidelines for hospitalized and post-surgery patients and treatment plan guidelines for clients to ensure proper patient treatment in the home environment including client follow up post hospitalization.
• Answer client questions and provide education on various aspects of animal care and treatment.      
• Advise animal owners regarding sanitary measures, feeding, and general care necessary to promote health of their pets.

• Humanely euthanize animals when it has been mutually agreed upon by the patient’s owner.
• Document actions by completing forms, reports, logs and patient records.
• Train and supervise team members who handle and care for animals; as needed.
• Deal with clients and employees in a manner that shows sensitivity, tact and profession
• Participate in business development as instructed by management and/or ownership.
• Attend monthly team meetings and other pertinent in-house training.
• Ability to function in a variety of clinical situations and to render a wide spectrum of patient care.
• Ability to speak with clients and to hear and observe patients in order to elicit information, describe changes in mood, activity and posture, and perceive nonverbal communications.
• Ability to communicate effectively, efficiently and sensitively with patients, owners, peers and team members showing compassion, integrity and concern for others. Communication includes speech, reading and writing.
• The ability to incorporate new information from peers, and medical literature in formulating diagnoses and plans.
• Good judgment in patient assessment, diagnostic and therapeutic planning; associate must be able to identify and communicate this knowledge to others when appropriate.

• Regular attendance and timeliness are an essential function in order to fulfill the requirements of this position.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Strong computer skills in order to obtain and enter client information, order laboratory and diagnostic tests, and receive and send messages.

• Commitment to practicing the highest standard of medicine, upholding the veterinary code of ethics.
• Perform other duties as assigned