Specialty Service Anesthesia Technician

About the Department

• Clinical Excellence: Providing compassionate, state-of-the-art specialty healthcare at the cutting edge of veterinary medicine.
• Education: Delivering expert clinical instruction to fourth-year veterinary students from the College of Veterinary Medicine.
• Innovation: Advancing the field through the ongoing investigation of innovative techniques and medical procedures.

• Medical , Dental , and Vision

• Retirement Programs
• Disability Plans
• Life Insurance
• Accident Plan
• Paid Time Off and Other Leave Programs

• Tuition and Academic Assistance
• And so much more!

• Provide comprehensive anesthetic and peri-anesthetic care, including pre-anesthetic assessments, high-risk drug calculations, advanced monitoring, life-saving interventions, pain management, and post-operative recovery for small, large, and exotic species.
• Deliver independent, high-quality care for all patients, utilizing sound clinical judgment and requesting assistance from senior medical staff when appropriate.
• Operate, interpret, and maintain advanced anesthetic and physiologic monitoring equipment and specialized patient care devices to ensure patient safety during surgical, diagnostic, and imaging procedures.
• Demonstrate strong technical proficiency and the ability to work effectively with computers, electronic medical records, and clinical electronics.
• Coordinate care and communicate professionally and effectively at all times with specialty services, clinicians, staff, and students across multiple hospital service areas to support complex medical and surgical cases.
• Provide exceptional customer service and maintain strict professionalism and emotional regulation in charged, high-stress, or challenging clinical situations.
• Work effectively as a collaborative member of the veterinary team, serving as an active participant in collective problem-solving and the continuous advancement of the department.
• Orient, teach, and coach new staff, students, interns, and residents on anesthetic procedures, hospital policies, and patient care standards in a teaching-hospital environment.
• Demonstrate a dedicated desire to teach, guide, and evaluate fourth-year veterinary students during their clinical rotations.
• Accurately document patient care, vitals, and treatments within hospital information systems.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment, strictly adhering to infectious disease protocols, OSHA , EHS , and radiation safety standards.
• Safely work with or around sick animals, potentially hazardous materials, cleaning chemicals, waste anesthetic gases, zoonotic diseases, and unpleasant odors.
• Ability to frequently lift and position patients or equipment weighing up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Flexibility and willingness to work beyond regularly scheduled hours when patient care needs or emergency cases dictate.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Experience providing anesthesia and perioperative patient care in a specialty, emergency, referral, or teaching veterinary hospital setting.
• Demonstrated proficiency in anesthetic monitoring, advanced drug calculations, pain management, and recovery of small animal patients; experience with large animal and/or exotic species is preferred.
• Experience operating and interpreting advanced anesthetic and physiologic monitoring equipment and documenting patient care within electronic medical record systems.
• Experience training, mentoring, or instructing veterinary students, veterinary technicians, interns, residents, or new staff in a clinical environment.
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize multiple patient care responsibilities, adapt to changing caseloads, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced clinical setting.

• Licensed/Registered/Certified by any state
• Graduation from an AVMA fully accredited two- or four-year Veterinary Technician program

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Earliest Close Date---- (Positions will be posted until 5:00 PM ET on this date.

Positions remaining posted after this date are still accepting applications but may close at any time.)

Notice to Applicants

Full Time Equivalent (FTE) (1.0 = 40 hours/week)