Emergency Veterinary Assistant

Job overview

The Emergency Veterinary Assistant role is onsite in Tampa, FL, and compensation is not specified. Veterinary Emergency Group’s mission is to help people and their pets when they need it most through emergency veterinary care. The assistant supports emergency and inpatient care by performing nursing tasks, monitoring patients, assisting with diagnostics and treatments, and working alongside licensed veterinary technicians. The posting also describes additional advanced tasks that assistants may perform where permitted by law, as well as guided training pathways.

What you'll do

• Treat patients and customers with compassion
• perform basic to intermediate nursing care, monitoring, and treatments
• triage incoming patients using knowledge of common conditions and assessment parameters
• administer medications and intravenous fluid therapy
• participate in outpatient and inpatient care and patient rounds
• collect samples and perform diagnostic tests and imaging
• assist with sedation and surgical anesthesia under LVT or DVM supervision
• perform nursing tasks such as maintaining urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes
• set up and troubleshoot oxygen equipment
• train to perform CPR as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

emergency veterinary assistant

tampa fl

veterinary emergency group

emergency veterinary care

patient monitoring

veterinary nursing

medication administration

iv fluid therapy

diagnostic testing

patient rounds

cpr training

licensed veterinary technicians

flexible schedules

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Employee pet discount, referral rewards, health, vision and dental insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid parental leave up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary, continuing education opportunities, flexible schedules, and growth potential.

Why this role

Advanced anesthesia, vascular access, diagnostic, and care-planning tasks may be performed where permitted by law. Benefits include paid parental leave of up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary.

About the employer

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) is hiring for this role. Industry: Veterinary Services. Sector: 54.