Licensed Veterinary Technician

Job Title: Veterinary Technician (Full-time/Part-time)

Location: Guardian Veterinary Emergency, Orange County - Middletown, NY

Signing Bonus: $10,000 for Full‑time

Hourly Pay Range: $25.00 to $35.00 per hour – hourly pay

We are currently seeking Veterinary Technicians to join our team on both a full‑time and part‑time basis. You will work with a talented and supportive group, delivering top‑notch emergency care to our patients.

• Shift and
  
  Schedule:
  
  4 day work week. Weekends, holidays and on calls required.
• Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
• Use understanding of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to accurately triage incoming patients.
• Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand potential adverse effects of medications.
• Set‑up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy including constant rate infusions and blood transfusion therapy.
• Contribute to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care.
• Collect samples and perform in‑house diagnostic tests.
• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and/or maintaining urinary catheters, nasoenteral tubes, nasal oxygen tubes, chest and abdominal tubes.
• Administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia.
• Perform vascular access techniques including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement.
• Participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans.
• Conduct treatments according to protocolized plans.
• Aid in managing patient care workload to ensure the patients are receiving uncompromised care.
• Organize work area and exercise time management skills to maximize personal efficiency within the practice.
• Prioritize tasks and handle multiple tasks in a calm manner.
• Client communication.
• Additional duties as assigned based on position/department.

• Must have NYS Veterinary Technician’s license (cost covered for those who need to obtain a license in NY).
• Some experience working in a veterinary emergency hospital preferred.
• Must have reliable transportation.
• Able to perform moderately physically demanding work that requires lifting up to 50 pounds.
• Flexibility and the ability to accommodate shift work in a 24‑hour/7‑day hospital.
• Have great people skills and communicate well in person, over email, and on the phone.
• Love of animals and a passion to help and heal, first and foremost.
• Good work ethic.

• Competitive wages with overnight differential.
• 401(k) with employer contribution.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employee pet health care discounts.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Referral program.

For those not local to NY and not licensed as Veterinary Technicians in NY, we would cover the cost to obtain a NY license.