Are you looking for a way to recharge your veterinary technician career? Are you energetic, enthusiastic about patient care, and have a passion for high quality medicine? We invite you to join our team! We take pride in not only delivering world-class medicine so our patients have the best possible results and experience, but that our staff feels prepared to provide the best possible service we can.

We want the best for our patients, so this successful candidate will work with a board-certified Veterinary Neurologist to provide the highest quality of veterinary care. Applicants should be enthusiastic, eager to learn, and have excellent multi-tasking abilities. Applicants should have exemplary communication skills with both colleagues and clients. Our Neurology Patient Care Personnel skill set includes (but is not limited to) intravenous catheter placement, venipuncture, experience with veterinary neurology is preferred, 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 Neurology 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, running MRI scans, 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.

AVES Neurology department co-manages patients with our other specialty services including Surgery, Oncology, Emergency and Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Dentistry & Oral Surgery, Diagnostic Imaging, Cardiology, and Rehabilitation & Fitness. The Neurology 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.

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 experienced, preferably with a veterinary specialty hospital or 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.

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