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🐾 NOW HIRING: Credentialed Emergency Veterinary Technician
📍 Emergency Pet Clinic of Longmont – Longmont, CO
🔍 Full-Time | Swings |Mornings| Nights | Weekends

Are you a credentialed veterinary technician with a passion for emergency medicine? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, team-driven environment where every shift can make a life-saving difference?

Emergency Pet Clinic of Longmont is looking for compassionate, skilled, and dedicated Emergency Veterinary Technicians to join our 24/7 emergency team. We are a new ER to Longmont(Previously Boulder Emergency Pet Clinic), providing critical care to the pets of Longmont and surrounding communities.

🩺 What You’ll Do:

• Provide hands-on emergency care including triage, IV catheter placement, fluid therapy, anesthesia monitoring, and more.
• Assist veterinarians in critical cases and surgical procedures.
• Monitor hospitalized patients with attention to detail and compassion.
• Communicate clearly with clients about treatment plans and patient updates.
• Support a collaborative team environment while maintaining the highest standard of patient care.

✅ Qualifications:

• Must be a Credentialed Veterinary Technician (CVT, LVT, or RVT).
• Prior emergency or specialty experience strongly preferred.
• Comfortable in high-pressure situations with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Flexible schedule availability, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

💼 What We Offer:

• Competitive hourly wage (based on experience and certifications)
• Shift differentials for nights, weekends, and holidays
• Health benefits
• Paid time off and continuing education support
• A supportive, team-oriented workplace that values your expertise

📬 Ready to Make a Difference?

Apply today!

ER Call Emergency Pet Clinic of Longmont
1517 Main Street, Longmont, CO 80501
🌐https://www.longmontemergencyvet.com/site/home

Position Overview: The Veterinary Technician supports hospital operations by providing dedicated quality veterinary care and exceptional service to our patients and clients. Responsibilities include providing patient care by determining animal requirements, conducting examinations and diagnostic procedures, assisting during surgery and operations, providing nursing care, assisting with feeding and caring for patients, maintaining medical supplies and equipment, overseeing triage and discharging patients, and maintaining patient medical records.

Essential Position Functions:

• Determine animal requirements by conducting examinations and interviews, reviewing care plans and records, completing laboratory tests and studies, and diagnostic imaging.
• Care for patients by taking vital signs, collecting samples, administering medications, drugs, and vaccines, and bandaging and wrapping wounds.
• Support patient examinations and operations by assembling required supplies and instruments, securing and bringing patients to examination rooms, and restraining patients; aids as directed by the veterinarian.
• Provide excellent pet care by applying full knowledge of anatomy, physiology, disease processes, pharmacology, specialized equipment usage, and specialized drug
• Obtain and verify
• Ensure that patients have food and Cleans patients ' rooms, cages, and equipment; observes patients for clinical signs of disease.
• As directed, fill prescriptions and administer medications, including proper documentation, logging, and security of controlled drugs.
• Maintain a safe, secure, healthy, and humane environment by sterilizing and wrapping instruments, sanitizing and disinfecting holding and operating areas, storing sterile supplies, verifying shelf life, following standards and procedures, and complying with applicable legal
• Maintain medical records by documenting patients' conditions, reactions, and changes; update database accurately and timely.
• As directed by the veterinarian, communicate with the pet owner about the patient's status.
• Maintain equipment by following operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining equipment supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities and reading professional
• Release pets to their owners as directed; ensure every animal released is clean and the catheter removed before discharge.
• Understand and carry out oral and written
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Manager

Competencies:

• Care and Compassion: Displays a desire to build rapport and provide personal assistance and emotional support.
• Team Orientation: Works cooperatively with the team to address tasks and accomplish goals.
• Dependability: Demonstrates responsibility in completing tasks and accomplishing goals.
• Initiative: Proactively seeks to address and follow through on work activities.
• Flexibility and Multi-Tasking: Adapts quickly to changing demands and manages multiple priorities effectively.
• Communication: Uses effective and appropriate methods of interacting with others.
• Customer Services: Displays a desire to provide outstanding service and exceed customer expectations.
• Organization and Attention to Detail: Monitors and reviews information thoroughly and maintains an organized document system.
• Adherence to Rules and Instructions: Consistently follows standard procedures.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED
• Two or more years of emergency experience with triage, surgeries, and nursing care for hospitalized and critical patients.
• Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) in the state of Colorado.

Position Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Knowledge of preparing, monitoring, and recovering pets receiving surgery and emergency pet nursing.
• Ability to demonstrate and follow correct procedures in catheter placement, phlebotomy, emergency medicine, and digital radiology.
• Ability to use the Idexx Vet Station, Imagyst, Anesthesia machine, blood gas, microscope, centrifuge, and ECG.
• Understand and limit the potential exposure to bites, scratches, and possible
• Able to restrain patients according to standard
• Fill prescriptions and monitor sedation procedures as directed by the
• Ability to work with or around sick animals, potentially hazardous materials, cleaning chemicals, gas anesthetics, zoonotic diseases, and unpleasant odors.
• Display confidence and reassurance when dealing with pets experiencing true emergencies, severe stress, illness, or pain.
• Communicate and approach job duties professionally and maturely.
• Must be flexible with scheduling and can work days, swings, graveyards, weekends, and
• This strenuous job requires a lot of lifting, cleaning, and constant
• Depending on the functional area of the assignment, tasks may involve extended periods at a keyboard or workstation and/or extended periods of standing and/or walking.
• May include some climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or
• Some tasks involve the periodic performance of moderately physically demanding work, usually involving lifting or carrying moderately heavy animals (up to 50 pounds).
• Answer phones and perform other duties as needed
• Other duties and responsibilities are as assigned by the Manager.

Additional Information:

The list of essential functions and additional functions, as outlined in this job description, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this position. The omission of any job function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a required assignment for the position.

Title: Veterinary Assistant

Reports to: Hospital Manager Department: Emergency

Location: Emergency Pet Clinic of Longmont

Position Overview: The veterinary assistant supports the veterinarians and technicians in their daily tasks by cleaning and maintaining equipment, feeding, exercising, and grooming patients, preparing and sanitizing surgery suites, restraining and handling patients, and performing clerical and administrative work. They deliver quality care for all patients and provide exceptional service.

Essential Functions:

• As a vital part of our team, you will provide compassionate care to all patients, ensuring their comfort and well-being.

• Greet patients and their owners as they arrive and show them to an examining room, taking the patient’s weight and other vital signs upon arrival

• Triage patients, perform physical exams and treatments, and administer medication as directed by the registered veterinary technicians (RVTs).

• Your role will also involve calming and soothing anxious patients, showing them the care and understanding they need during their time with us.

• Assist doctors and technicians with the administration of medications or with patient restraint

• Perform laboratory tests and take radiographs

• Operate and maintain hospital equipment, including EKGs, fluid pumps, syringe pumps, scales, anesthetic monitors, and machines.

• Fill prescriptions and administer medication as directed by the registered veterinary technicians (RVTs)

• Feed patients as prescribed by the attending doctor or as the client has requested; record appetites; recognize and report any unusual conditions or abnormal behaviors

• Communicate positively with clients and ensure that they feel comfortable leaving their pet(s)

• Maintain the cleanliness of the hospital each day; clean equipment, kennels, and facilities using chemicals and supplies; ensure the safe use of chemicals; complete laundry

• Bath and care for patients who stay overnight; ensure that every animal released is clean and groomed adequately before their release

• Adhere to the hospital’s safety and wellness regulations

• Understand and carry out oral and written directions

• Maintain accurate medical records

• Shows up for work regularly; full-time presence at work is essential for every shift

• Promote hospital products and services and support the organization

• Respond respectfully and urgently to directions given by a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT).

• Perform any other duties as assigned by the Manager

Competencies:

• Care and Compassion – displays a desire to build rapport, provide personal assistance and emotional support

• Animal Restraint and Safety – uses sound judgment when handling patients and always takes appropriate precautionary steps when needed

• Communication – uses effective and appropriate methods of interacting with others

• Team Orientation – works cooperatively with the team to address tasks and accomplish goals

• Dependability – demonstrates responsibility in completing all job tasks

• Cleanliness Standards – consistently follows sanitization and sterilization policies and procedures

• Energy and Productivity – completes tasks quickly and thoroughly without prompting

• Time Management – manages time and prioritizes work tasks effectively

• Technical Skills and Learning – keep up-to-date with new technical skills and knowledge in the field

• Care and Use of Equipment – takes appropriate steps to perform operation checks and maintenance of equipment

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• One to two years experience in a veterinary environment, preferably in ER, successfully performing all of the duties of this position

• Veterinary assistant certification preferred

• Experience with surgical monitoring, radiology

• May consider an equivalent combination of education, certification, training, and/or experience

Position Requirements:

• Maintains current knowledge in the field of expertise and actively seeks opportunities for continuing education and skill improvement.

• Ability to restrain animals, fill prescriptions, and monitor sedation procedures

• Ability to work with or around sick animals, potentially hazardous materials, cleaning chemicals, gas anesthetics, zoonotic diseases, and unpleasant odors

• Requires knowledge of hospital procedures, policies, and services; client andPatient treatment protocols, hospital computer systems, and the standard procedures, records, and terminology used in a veterinary hospital are also discussed.

• Must be flexible with scheduling and able to work days, swings, overnights, weekends and holidays

• Depending on the functional area of the assignment, tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation and/or extended periods of standing and/or walking.

• This strenuous job requires a lot of lifting, cleaning, and constant motion. It may involve some climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling

• Some tasks involve the periodic performance of moderately physically demanding work, usually involving lifting or carrying moderately heavy animals (up to 50 pounds)

Additional Information:

The list of essential functions, as outlined in this job description, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. The omission of any job function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

Pet Vet is an equal-opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, religion, citizenship, national origin/ancestry, physical/mental disabilities, military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. EOE, M/F/D/V