Veterinary Technician - Non-Credentialed

Eligible Veterinary Assistant / LVT Candidate

Seaport Animal Hospital | New York, NY

Seaport Animal Hospital is looking for an experienced Veterinary Assistant who is currently enrolled in or has recently completed an accredited Veterinary Technology program and is working toward becoming a Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT).

This is an excellent opportunity for an LVT candidate who already has a strong clinical foundation and is ready to continue developing their technical skills in a supportive, hands‑on environment. Our goal is to help you build the confidence, consistency, efficiency, and technical competency needed to transition successfully into an LVT role once licensed.

At Seaport, our Veterinary Assistants are an integral part of the medical team. We are looking for someone who is comfortable taking ownership of patient care and appointment flow, anticipates the needs of our doctors and patients, and is excited to continue advancing their technical abilities.

As an Eligible Veterinary Assistant / LVT Candidate, you will work closely with our veterinarians, LVTs, and clinical support team across appointments, diagnostics, procedures, surgery, dentistry, anesthesia, and hospitalized patient care.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide excellent canine and feline patient handling using Fear-Free and low-stress techniques
  , including recognizing fear, anxiety, stress, pain, and changes in patient condition.
• Support appointments from start to finish, including reviewing medical records, obtaining thorough histories, preparing patients for examinations, assisting with diagnostics and treatments, preparing discharge instructions, and completing room turnover.
• Assist with hospitalized patient care, including comfort, hygiene, feeding, walking, warming, monitoring, treatment-sheet documentation, and patient handoffs.
• Prepare and process blood, urine, fecal, cytology, culture, and other diagnostic specimens.
• Operate and maintain IDEXX in-house blood analyzers
  , including proper sample preparation, testing, routine cleaning, maintenance, and recognition of sample or analyzer errors.
• Perform Seaport's URICULT in-house urine culture workflow and properly prepare, label, store, and package specimens for outside reference laboratories.
• Assist with radiology, including patient preparation, positioning, radiation safety, image quality, and preparation of studies for radiologist review.
• Accurately fill veterinarian-authorized prescriptions and demonstrate appropriate medication calculations, labeling, storage, handling, inventory management, and pharmacy organization.
• Prepare surgical and dental patients, procedure areas, sterile supplies, instruments, monitoring equipment, airway supplies, emergency supplies, and recovery areas.
• Develop competency in anesthesia monitoring
  , including HR, RR, SpO2, ETCO2, blood pressure, temperature, ECG, anesthetic depth, warming, documentation, and recognition of abnormal trends.
• Set up, safety-check, leak-test, clean, maintain, and break down anesthesia equipment.
• Assist with dental procedures and develop competency in dental charting, dental radiographs, scaling, polishing, anesthesia monitoring, and dental equipment maintenance as legally permitted.
• Safely operate, clean, and maintain clinical equipment including patient warming systems, oxygen equipment, fluid and syringe pumps, Doppler/BP equipment, multiparameter monitors, centrifuges, microscopes, autoclaves, dental equipment, and other hospital equipment.
• Maintain clean, organized, fully stocked and patient‑ready exam, treatment, surgery, dental, laboratory, pharmacy, kennel, and recovery areas.
• Participate in inventory management, including monitoring stock levels, expiration dates, backstock, and Seaport's…