Bestfriends

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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