Veterinary Assistant

Position Overview: The veterinary assistant provides support to 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 clerical and administrative work. They deliver quality care for all patients and provide exceptional service.
Essential Functions:

Provide compassionate care to all patients 

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, treatments, and administer medication as directed by the licensed veterinary technicians (LVT's). 

Calm and soothe anxious patients 

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

Perform laboratory tests and take radiographs...