veterinary technician

veterinary assistant

customer service representative

kennel assistant

veterinarian

Quakertown-Veterinary-Clinic

The Good: This is a great starting place to work to get experience in the animal field. You will learn a ton of knowledge from all the techs and vets. You can be taught new skills and can ask questions to continue to learn more. I enjoy working with my team because everyone is helpful, even on difficult or stressful days. We help each other get through hard times and celebrate when there is a positive outcome. As a group, patient care comes first, and we strive to do the best we can together. When I first started working there, it was a fantastic place to work with animals, and I wish that it still was!

The Bad: Unfortunately, management can break a place like Quakertown Veterinary Clinic. The negative part is that veterinary assistant management treats the clinic as a business first. Management can and will cut employee hours and demote your position, which includes a pay cut. Hard work goes unnoticed, and low yearly raises are offered during annual review time. Some assistants did not get a raise this year. Another negative is that your schedule consists of a terrible work-life balance. Example: Full-time is 5 days a week, including weekends, with differentiating hours each day. Overtime on the assistant side is not allowed, even when there is not enough support staff to run an animal hospital efficiently. Beware of poor management. 

The Ugly: In the vet assistant department, there is a high turnover rate due to minimal growth opportunities and career advancement. Many of my friends are leaving for outside veterinary clinics because they love what they do, but have been underappreciated for their hard work and slowly driven out of the company.  You will be replaceable here as a veterinary assistant! At least you will have valuable experience to apply somewhere else in the future.

QVC is a great place for those who are looking to pursue a pre-vet path or just looking to further their career in vet-med. There are many employees who started as a member of support staff and worked their way to an administrative position or came back as a veterinarian after attending school. As any company with such a large number of staff, there will always be those who you may not see eye-to-eye with, but personally, I have met more people I would find it difficult to imagine working without. Short staffing does occur as it does in all aspects of the veterinary field, but there are so many generous employees willing to pick up extra shifts if it means patient care will be improved and if it will help their peers. It is a facility rooted in a longstanding culture of education and career advancement for those interested in small animal, large animal, emergency medicine, general practice, daily hospital care, specialties, or even boarding/grooming/daycare. I have learned an endless amount of knowledge relating to the medical side of things and have made life-long connections that will serve as immensley helpful references for my pursuit to a career as a veterinarian.

I worked as a tech assistant for a short while at Quakertown, and I both loved and hated working there. What I loved most is that the place gave me the opportunity to put my foot in the door into the career of working with animals. Some people there would give a helping hand whenever they could and some kept a positive attitude. The vast majority of the workers, however, could care less about you and how you feel and they would rather belittle you rather than teach you how to be better at your job. 

I enjoyed the opportunity to learn how to care for and handle animals from cleaning their cages to helping to restrain them for x-rays or putting in catheters. The part I didn't enjoy was that there were way too many technicians and not near enough assistants. Scheduling there is atrocious and everyone is severely underpaid, so if you would like to be paid on your skill level, this is not the place to look. If you want to get your foot in the door for animal medicine, this would be a nice place to start as long as you can ignore the majority of the mean, grouchy workers who have a god complex.

For the nice workers who do their best to help out and retain a positive attitude, you the real MVPs.

I have had the honor of working here for over 20 years now. The core values remain "Compassionate, Quality Care" - There are many long-time staff members who are the heart of the practice. That said, they mentor and help guide new team members, encouraging each other.  The clinic has grown in size, and along with that comes new staff. Some don't stay as they don't understand the (there is no "I" in) team culture, but those that do appreciate being surrounded by hard-working, animal/pet-loving people who are all willing to help. The work can be hard yet rewarding, and the clinic has an amazing client base.  You can learn so much working here; education is extremely important to all, and there is a chance to move to team lead positions. Management encourages you to think outside of the box and do everything possible to give every pet and person the best service. Management also backs you up with your decision-making and takes care of their staff. QVC is a great place to be!

Most employees there are nice but there’s a very clique-ish culture and if you don’t “fit in” it’s miserable. Some people get praised even if they don’t do anything but they’re friends with higher ups and others get ignored for doing much more than they have to.  There’s no way to move up there. Management clearly doesn’t value their employees, they’re one of the lowest paying vet clinics in the area. There are so many other vet clinics around that pay dollars more, for a less stressful job. Some employees are very sweet and helpful though. Very fast paced, offers very flexible shifts. Takes forever to learn everything though, but you do learn a lot. Most clients are very nice and appreciative. Could be a great place to work if management actually showed that they value all of their employees, not just some.

You learn a variety of things about animals. Their personalities, breeds, how to handle and restrain aggressive animals. You learn basic knowledge on medication and treatment. The co-workers we work with we consider as family. the hardest part of the job is knowing how to control and animal with no matters and having the understanding that this animal is not your own. And we cannot train or discipline these animals, we have to be able to control and manage them in professional way. the most enjoyable part of the job is playing with multiple dogs and cats everyday and falling in love with them.

This is a large and diverse mixed-animal practice. There is so much to learn and know - great mentorship from Doctors, and long-term staff. If you love animals and people and of course want to learn as much as you can about caring for different species - this is the place to be. In my experience, management really does care about their employees and promotes an open-door policy if anyone has any concerns.  Staff events are held monthly to show appreciation to the employees and for a little "down-time" from sometimes a high-paced environment.

It's a pretty decent place to work. Benefits are pretty good and pay isn't bad considering you don't need experience. The job is really dependent on your position though. You receive different benefits based on position. It's strange but even breaks aren't the same for employees... some positions receive one hour paid breaks, others receive 15 minutes if they're lucky, sometimes none. 

I love working at Quakertown Veterinary Clinic. The amount I have learned here has been out of this world. The people here have become my family and I love coming to work. Everyone is here for the same purpose, to help animals. I have been able to move up within the company and know this will be my forever home. The management team at QVC is fantastic, they always have an open door and a listening ear. If you are looking for a place to learn, to laugh, and build a relationship with the community this is the place. 

I worked here from ages 16-19 as a veterinary assistant. Management is fairly understanding of staffers with other commitments (especially seasonal college students). Fair share of drama at times, but easy to stay out of. Some doctors/vet assistants/vet techs do treat newer or less knowledgeable people as lesser than hence my 3 stars. Things might have changed since my working there, though. Overall, a good place to learn about veterinary medicine and work alongside experienced professionals.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Veterinary technician 18 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Veterinary assistant 21 salaries reported	$14.73 per hour
Customer service representative 18 salaries reported	$15.32 per hour
Kennel assistant 7 salaries reported	$13.25 per hour
Veterinarian 10 salaries reported	$15.43 per hour

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