Do you enjoy the work at your current veterinary technician position? Are you looking for a place that you can grow your skills or put what you know to excellent use?
Consider joining our growing veterinary healthcare team.
Catskill Veterinary Services was established in 2012 as a mobile veterinary service providing house calls/farm calls in Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster Counties. We opened a new state-of-the-art veterinary hospital in Rock Hill, NY on August 1, 2017. Our practice consists of four full-time doctors and an expanding team of licensed veterinary technicians, veterinary assistants, and receptionists.
We currently have Six full-time licensed veterinary technicians
We care for all animals; horses to hamsters. We have a caring and dynamic group of doctors and support staff. Consider joining our positive, dedicated veterinary healthcare team!
Primary Function
Assisting veterinarians in all aspects of medical care. We believe in maximizing our technicians to their fullest potential. Such requirements include:
- Inducing and maintaining anesthesia
- Dental radiographs/cleanings
- Digital radiographs
- Intravenous catheter placement
- Management of fluid pumps/CRI medications
- Collecting/running lab samples including blood, urine, and bacterial cultures
- Client education – intake and discharge visits
- Technician appointments- vaccinations, blood collection, suture removals, and therapeutic laser visits
- Technician house calls/farm calls
- Process lab samples
- Performing nerve blocks - specific to dental procedures and other surgery prep
- Focal ultrasound training and cystocentesis sampling
- Care for intensive care patients
- Mobile appointments/clinics
Equipment/Facility
Our facility is roughly 3,500 sq feet and includes a wide variety of diagnostic tools to provide the best quality care possible for all species. We have four exam rooms with computers to maintain completely paperless medical records. A dedicated surgery suite with an active scavenger system and anesthetic machine. We also have a dedicated dental suite complete with digital radiology equipment and a high-speed dental unit (two drill heads). We have a dedicated radiology suite that has a DR radiology system with a floating table.
Our monitoring equipment includes ECG, SPO2, ETCo2, Temperature. We have 2 portable ECG monitors that allow us to monitor ECG while the patients are hospitalized in the ward. We have the ability for telemedicine consultations as well.
We have a full in-house idexx lab complete with cbc/chem/coagulation, snap pros (two), urine stick machine, and sedi-view. We perform 30+ cbc/chems per day.
We have a doppler blood pressure monitor as well as tonovet for IOP monitoring.
We have 3 ultrasound units for various modalities of advanced diagnostic imaging.
Essential Job Duties
- Be able to lift 60 lbs.
- Be comfortable around companion animals (dogs/cats/handing avian/exotic patients would be very helpful). Being comfortable with equine/farm animals would be a plus
- Assist the doctor in procedures/consultations
- Answering the phone and helping to schedule consultations and client callbacks
- Entering patient information into database program (Impromed) - we are fully computerized
- Candidate must be comfortable with euthanasia and respectful of the process
- Comfortable with anesthesia and dentistry is very helpful
- Proficiency with venipuncture, intravenous catheter placement, and patient care is critical
- Being a patient advocate no matter the species
- Being a liaison to the client
- Must be an effective and efficient team member and actively communicate with all members of the team
Computer Skills
Candidate should be comfortable with basic computer work which would include but not limited to MS Word, MS Excel, emailing and other web applications
Comfortable with Impromed is strongly desired but we will teach/train
Hours/Expectations
Our day starts at 8 am Monday-Saturday. We currently offerer appointments two days per week until 8 pm but are considering expanding those hours.
We are also considering expanding/offering urgent care hours on weekends as well as overnight nursing care.
Educational Requirements
AAS- Veterinary Technology (minimum) and a NYS license in good standing
Compensation
Hourly pay is based on the candidate’s experience and abilities
We offer a health insurance package (we contribute 50% of the monthly premium, as well as Aflac services.
Retirement with matching funds
Full-time staff members receive 80 hrs of paid vacation per year and sick days.
We offer holiday pay for full-time staff members after the required probationary period
Pet benefits as well
CE compensation as we feel it is very important for our team to be up-to-date with all aspects of our profession.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $23.00 - $32.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
