Careers

About the Role

Are you passionate about animal welfare and nurturing the human-animal bond? Do you believe client education is the key to ensuring our pets live happy and healthy lives? Do you LOVE puppy kisses and kitty face nudges? If so, Calvert Animal Hospital wants YOU on its team! Full/part-time veterinary surgery technician position is available. Calvert Animal Hospital is a full-service small animal clinic, offering benefits such as paid time off, 401K, health insurance, continuing education allowance, scrub allowance, and pet health care discounts. Applicants must have prior veterinary clinic surgical experience and a respectful and professional demeanor. 

As a Surgery Veterinary Technician, you will: 

• Assist in patient procedures using knowledge of anesthesia and analgesia-related protocols and procedures, including formulating anesthetic plans tailored to individual patient needs.
• Monitor anesthesia, troubleshoot anesthetic complications, and make appropriate interventions. 
• Intravenous catheter placement, endotracheal intubation, and anesthetic equipment use and maintenance. 
• Perform physical exam; accurately counts heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate, and effort. 
• Understand normal vital parameters and alert doctor when abnormal. 
• Set up intravenous fluids and CRI's. 
• Continuous expansion of knowledge and skillset: advanced anesthetic skills including epidurals, difficult airway intubation, and critical case management. 
• Operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors. 
• Comfortable with medical math. 
• Ability to take patient through entire procedure from start to finish (pre-op, monitoring, post-op, and recovery) 
• Manage appointments, obtain histories, medical record keeping, invoicing, patient discharges, etc. 
• Disconnect and connect patients from intravenous fluids aseptically. Monitor patient response to fluid therapy including signs of overload. 
• If you are not a RVT, you must have a strong foundational understanding and be able to perform the responsibilities of a surgery veterinary technician including (but not limited to): 
• Venipuncture 
• Placing IV Catheters 
• Prepping patients for surgery 
• Calculating drugs, CRI's, & fluid rates 
• Inducing, monitoring, and recovering anesthesia patients 
• Scrubbing in for soft-tissue and orthopedic surgeries 
• Cleaning/wrapping/sterilizing surgical instruments 
• Administration of Medications (IV or other methods) 

Benefits Include:

Financial Benefits:  

• A flexible approach to compensation that will reflect your skillset and future performance 
• 401(k) matching & Roth Retirement Savings Plan 
• Flexible Spending Account 
• 529 Savings Plan 
• Tuition Support Program 
• Referral bonus program  

Wellness Benefits:   

• Health Insurance, including medical, dental, and vision 
• Supplemental insurance, including accident, critical illness, hospital, short and longterm disability, legal plan, and employee, spouse, and child-dependent life insurance 
• All US-based, benefits-eligible employees with a minimum of one year of service may receive up to three weeks of full pay for the birth or adoption of a child 
• Sick Time / Paid Time Off 
• Free/discounted lab work for all employee pets 
• Pet discounts on services and products 
• Pet food discount program 

Workplace Benefits:  

• Quarterly Team Rewards Bonus Program 
• Professional development opportunities  
• State license reimbursement 
• VTNE exam fee reimbursement 
• Continuing education allowance 
• Uniform allowance  
• Ability to join our VetCor Techlife Facebook group of over 800 veterinary technicians company-wide 

Lifestyle Benefits: 

• Six paid holidays 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Employee discount program 

Think you’re the surgery technician we’ve been looking for? Apply today! 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at Calvert Animal Hospital and Vetcor. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all employees. Every team member enriches our diversity by exposing us to various ways to understand and engage with the world. That's why we're committed to a workplace culture where employees are comfortable being their authentic selves, feel a complete sense of belonging, and are empowered to reach their highest potential.