Licensed Veterinary Technician

Our Hospital: On Point Veterinary Services is based in Hamilton, MT focusing on canine-centric care. That’s right! Dogs ONLY! Our hospital is within walking distance of numerous restaurants as well as the river.

Practice Overview: On Point Veterinary Services is a full-service animal hospital that offers routine medical, surgical, and dental care as well as daytime urgent care. Our team enjoys being a canine exclusive practice, and we're in the process of working towards our AAHA accreditation. We offer in house bloodwork, digital full body and dental x-ray. We like to practice quality, compassionate, modern medicine in a low stress environment. We value the importance of having a healthy work-life balance, which is why we have no on-call hours, no weekend hours, are closed holidays and offer a 4 day work week. If you are looking to join a team, who values high-quality medicine while maintaining a healthy work balance, then we want to speak with you!

Some Of What You’ll Be Working On:

• Assisting veterinarians and visiting orthopedic surgeons with exams, vaccinations, treatments, surgery, dentistry, hospitalized patients and animal restraint
• Performing laser therapy on rehab patients and performing rehab exercises as directed by a veterinarian
• Venipuncture, and IV catheter placement
• Surgical sterile prep and endotracheal tube placement and administration of anesthetics or sedatives under the direction of a veterinarian and monitoring of anesthesia
• Dental cleaning and dental x-rays
• Capture clinically diagnostic x-ray images
• Pharmacy medication filling
• Obtaining and maintaining patient medical information
• Building and maintaining client relationships including guiding owners through hospital and surgical discharges
• Maintaining a high level of client communication and patient care - verbal and written
• Help research and develop protocols that allow us to gain AAHA certification.
• Cleaning and maintenance of medical equipment as well as the hospital
• Be on the cutting edge of medicine! Our hospital is participating in an FDA study looking at reducing the rate/severity of aging in dogs.

Qualifications:

• Certified/Licensed Veterinary Technician who is actively licensed in Montana or has the immediate ability to become licensed. We strive to empower our technicians and assistants to work to the highest levels of their education.
• Minimum of five years’ experience with direct patient care/surgical/anesthesia care experience
• Strong comfort level with venipuncture, IV catheter placement, endotracheal tube placement and ability to monitor and adjust anesthesia with little oversight.
• Strong knowledge of surgical equipment, care and aseptic technique.
• Reliability is key. We round at 8:30 am and our last appointment is at 4:30 pm. This position will be the lead treatment team member on Fridays.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Demonstrated passion for patient care and client service
• Strong comfort level with electronic medical notes and ability to quickly learn required software programs. We utilize Daysmart as our medical electronic note system. We are VERY paper light.
• Team player with the ability to work together and independently to meet goals and objectives
• Strong commitment to ethics and integrity
• Ability to ask for help and deal with change. We are always striving to improve our practice. We like change!
• Must be comfortable kneeling, bending and able to lift 40 lbs.
• Must be willing to follow all AAHA, local, state and CDC guidelines in regards to personal protective gear and best practices.

Benefits and Perks

• Experienced certified technicians start at $24-26/hr paid bi-weekly and based on experience.
• 10 days paid time off after 3 months of employment and 4 paid sick/mental health days available immediately.
• CVT/RVTs/LVTs can reimburse up to $500 annually for continuing educations courses after 6 months of employment. Can be accrued for 2 years for $1000 CE reimbursement.
• CVT/LVT Licensing fees in the state of MT are covered
• Annual Uniform allowance
• Simple IRA with 3% match after 3 months of employment and based on when open enrollment is scheduled.
• Purina Pro Plan discounted feeding program
• Team member pet care discounts for up to 3 pets
• Numerous fun team member events
• Breakroom is stocked with various snacks
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. You just need to love animals.

Interested? Please email an application to [email protected] and visit us on Facebook and Instagram #onpointvet