Bestfriends
Veterinary Assistant
Kanab, UT
No sponsorshipDetected 1 day ago
LeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMicrosoft Office
About the role
- They are responsible for daily activities in the veterinary department.
- Veterinary assistants act with urgency to accomplish important tasks and play a direct role in achieving Best Friends Animal Society's no-kill mission and organizational success.
- Assistants may receive intensive assignments in a particular program, based on organizational needs.
Responsibilities
- Support, empower and enable volunteers and foster parents with the goal of utilizing volunteers to expand Best Friends lifesaving capacity
- support client communications including aftercare and emergency support.
- Maintain a safe workplace, value, and model safe work practices, adhering to organizational safety practices and rules, and communicating to leadership about unsafe practices and conditions.
- Customer-centric, non-judgmental approach to engaging with adopters, partners, visitors, volunteers, and colleagues
Requirements
- ability to travel, including overnight stays, when needed.
- familiarity and comfort with a conversational adoption process.
- Required Skills and Experience:
Skills
- A minimum of one year experience working with animals providing basic veterinary care preferred, and an interest in veterinary medicine.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with well-developed organization skills to juggle multiple competing tasks and demands.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products; familiarity with shelter software/animal management software, or desire to learn.
Benefits
- Perform basic medical care in support of the veterinarians and technicians including but not limited to medicating, vaccinating, subcutaneous fluids, and microchipping under the direction of a veterinarian
- Maintain a clean and disinfected working environment, maintain controlled substances logs, accurately enter and maintain patient and client medical data.
Equal opportunity
- Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. by Best Friends Animal Society.
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