Are you looking for a way to recharge your veterinary technician career? Are you energetic, enthusiastic about patient care with a passion for high-quality medicine? We invite you to join our team! We take pride in delivering world-class medicine allowing our patients to have the best possible results and outcomes while supporting our technical staff to provide the best possible service.

In order to accomplish our goals, our Surgery Patient Care Personnel must be able to manage cases with a variety of pre and post-op medication protocols, propofol induction, and isoflurane, or CRI maintenance. To provide the best care, our PCPs continuously monitor their patients during surgery with the assistance of pulse oximetry, ECG, capnography, doppler blood pressure, heat support, and use of ventilators.

Our surgery technicians assist doctors in examination rooms and provide care to a variety of patients before, during and after surgery. Responsibilities include maintenance of all medical, anesthesia, and surgery records/logs, anesthesia induction, and maintenance, cleaning and maintenance of surgical equipment, surgical preparation of patients, circulating in the operating room, scrubbing in to assist during surgical procedures, immediate pre and post-operative treatments and recovery of surgery patients.

Candidates who are graduates of an AVMA approved Veterinary Technology Programs with LVT status are greatly desired. Must have at least 2 years of veterinary patient handling experience, preferably with a veterinary specialty hospital or a veterinary emergency hospital.

Benefits at Austin Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center (AVES) include: Health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, short and long-term disability, paid holidays, paid vacation, sick leave, and 401K plan (including company matching.) Salary is competitive and directly related to experience.

AVES surgery department co-manages patients with our other specialty services including Neurology, Oncology, Emergency, and Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Dentistry & Oral Surgery, Diagnostic Imaging, Cardiology, and Rehabilitation & Fitness. The surgery technicians help support AVES’s goals of providing 24/7/365 services to the veterinary community by contributing to on-call services, holiday coverage, and occasional coverage in other departments.

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