Veterinary Technician - Specialty Float

Specialty Veterinary Technician - Float

Full-time:
Weekday flexibility required. Rotating Weekends required.

Round Rock, TX

Heart of Texas is looking for a Specialty Veterinary Technician to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.

At Heart of Texas, a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner, you will have the support, tools, and resources to elevate your skills. As a hospital deeply rooted in the local community, you will experience the best of both worlds: a genuine local feel with the benefits of Thrive's national resources.

You are a skilled and adaptable Specialty Veterinary Technician - Float supporting multiple specialty departments, including Internal Medicine and the Dentistry and Oral Surgery departments. You provide high quality, compassionate patient care while confidently moving between specialty departments as needed. You communicate clearly with pet parents and team members, remain calm in high pressure situations, and are eager to continue expanding your technical and specialty skills.

• Safe animal handling, venipuncture, and catheter placement
• Anesthesia induction, monitoring, and recovery
• Medication calculation and administration
• Post-procedure patient monitoring and nursing care

• Assist with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Support imaging and laboratory diagnostics
• Monitor and care for hospitalized patients

• Dental radiographs and professional dental cleanings
• Ultrasonic scaling, polishing, and hand instrumentation
• Assist with oral surgery and advanced dental procedures
• Provide pre- and post-operative dental patient care

• Communicate clearly with pet parents and specialty teams
• Maintain accurate medical records
• Support a Fear Free, collaborative work environment

• 3+ years recent experience in a veterinary practice
• Internal Medicine and/or Dentistry experience strongly preferred
• 2+ years anesthesia experience required
• Ability to perform routine and specialty veterinary medical procedures
• Patient care experience required
• High school diploma or GED required
• Veterinary Technician license (LVT) or VTS preferred
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills

Heart of Texas Veterinary Specialty Center is a 24-hour emergency and specialty referral hospital that invests heavily in our team's growth and development. We pride ourselves on providing the Round Rock area with compassionate and quality emergency, and specialty care including surgery, internal medicine, dentistry and oral surgery, and oncology. We provide an emotionally intelligent work environment and strive to maintain a positive work/life balance.

Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members’ emotional, physical, professional, and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability plans, we offer eligible team members:

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) with employer match
• Mental health resources, including 24/7 access to Lyra Health
• Paid parental leave
• Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
• Employer-sponsored childcare and elder care
• Personalized care for every family-forming journey
• Discretionary funds and FREE CE courses
• Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
• Student loan management tools and assistance

Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.

We listen to your needs and then meet them. Through training and free CE experiences, your career development can flourish. And in our locally rooted, nationally connected community, you’ll be able to make connections, access opportunities and find support with ease.

Support for you is as vital as the support you provide.

At Thrive, you have the opportunity to develop your career in a way that best suits your goals. Take advantage of our comprehensive learning and skill-building programs to enhance your expertise. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:

• Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
• Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop…