Relief Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT)-Urgent Care and Spay/Neuter

Description

As a Registered Veterinary Technician with Humane Colorado's Community Veterinary Services team, you will use your advanced technical skills to provide high quality, affordable veterinary care for pets and the people who love them. Based at our innovative Veterinary Hospital at CSU Spur in Denver, you will partner with veterinarians to perform surgery, dentistry, anesthesia monitoring, diagnostics, and patient care for and every client you support directly advances our mission to end pet homelessness and animal suffering. This is more than a traditional RVT role. At CSU Spur, your work is part of an inspiring public veterinary hospital where surgeries and procedures are visible to visitors, creating opportunities to educate and inspire the next generation of veterinary professionals. If you are an experienced Registered Veterinary Technician who thrives in surgery, anesthesia, dentistry, and collaborative medicine and wants your expertise to make a lasting impact on animals, people, and our community, we would love to meet you. 

Purpose of Position: Assist veterinarians in providing medical care and treatment for animals, and exceptional customer service to patrons. This position works directly with underserved community members and their pets to provide high quality, affordable veterinary care. 

Responsibilities

• Assist team and veterinarians in the performance of surgical procedures. 
• Perform medical treatments and diagnostics at the direction of team and veterinarians.
• Provide first line, exceptional customer service to all patrons.
• Ensure a smooth and timely flow of office calls from check-in to discharge.
• Accurately review discharge patient instructions with clients and distribute educational materials as recommended by doctor.
• Thoroughly record conversations with clients including all recommendations, declined recommendations or treatments.
• Collect required laboratory samples and accurately process them for in-house or reference lab submission.
• Take and process all radiographs, including dental radiographs.
• Medicate, vaccinate, and treat animals as prescribed by veterinarian.
• Induce anesthesia and intubate, monitor anesthesia, prepare patient for surgery, and keep thorough surgery logs and anesthesia sheets.
• Independently work through anesthesia complications, specifically in critical anesthesia patients. 
• Assist veterinarians in surgical and medical procedures, including dentistry.
• Utilize proper animal handling and restraint.
• Perform medical and surgical patron call-backs as directed by veterinarian.
• Fill client prescriptions and maintain drug logs as required.
• Use and maintain medical equipment.
• Perform accurate data entry into hospital software system to update client and animal records.
• Clean and maintain work areas.
• List needed inventory items on want list before the last one is taken, stock all areas of hospital as needed, monitor items for expiration dates.
• Maintain professional and courteous demeanor in challenging/stressful situations.
• Contribute to and lead initiatives to improve processes and procedures.

CSU Spur Additional Responsibilities

• Ability to effectively communicate with various audiences about veterinary work being done in real time, in an on view setting and with an emphasis on education. 
• Work in partnership with CSU education facilitator to assure accuracy of content. 
• Oversee technical aspects of equipment needed to fulfill educational partnership with CSU and alert management to issues as needed.

People Care

People are the key to fulfilling our mission. Making internal and external patrons and their needs a primary focus is expected in all situations. This position interacts with and collaborates with employees at all levels of the organization. Communication occurs through face to face, telephone, and electronic interactions and may also include contact with the general public and business partners. Communication and contact must be clear, understandable, cooperative, professional, and respectful in all circumstances. Employees are expected to actively support a positive team environment, directly address conflict, and appropriately express concerns.

Competencies

Competencies are work behaviors and expectations necessary for successful job performance. They encompass knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and actions. Additional definitions for competencies may be obtained from Human Resources.

Organizational Key Competencies

• Job Knowledge
• Excellence
• Adapting to Change / Agility
• Dependability
• People Care

Position Key Competencies

• Accountability
• Teamwork
• Attention to detail
• Initiative
• Time management
• Decision making

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility

• Volunteers

Travel

• This position may require travel to different work sites

Shift Details: Relief hours vary

Compensation: Starting at $28.47-$30.38 per hour (Compensation base range is $25.47 - $27.38 + $3 per hour Registered Veterinary Technician differential. Starting pay commensurate with market, experience, and equity) 

Work Conditions and Physical Requirements

Handle and restrain animals of various sizes, weights, and temperaments. Subject to animal bites or scratches. Work performed in high noise level areas. Potentially prolonged periods of sitting and repetitive motion. Exposure to cleaning chemicals, fumes, dust, animal dander, and feces. Physical efforts require constant bending, stooping, standing, and walking, Frequent lifting of animals and objects up to 50 lbs. with reasonable accommodations and occasional lifting up to 75 lbs. with reasonable accommodation. May be exposed to radiation in association with performing radiology procedures. Will be required to work evenings, weekends and/or holidays as business operations demand.  

Requirements

Position Qualifications Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• High level of skill, knowledge, and proficiency with high volume spay/neuter surgeries. 
• Working knowledge of current veterinary practices.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently
• High attention to detail

Required

• Education: Associate degree in veterinary technology or equivalent experience
• Work Experience: Completion of a veterinary technician internship or comparable experience
• Special Training, Certification or Licensure: Current registration or able to register as a Veterinary Technician through the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies

Desired

• Experience in an animal welfare environment

Posting will remain open until filled, with a minimum posting period of 5 days.