About this role
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This position offers up to a $10k sign-on bonus
Are you a skilled and compassionate Licensed Veterinary Technician looking to take the next step in your career? BluePearl Pet Hospital in Buffalo, NY is seeking a dedicated professional to join our thriving, collaborative overnight emergency team.
Pay: $23.50 - $45.00 / hour + competitive shift differentials
This pay band is dependent on experience and advancement through our competency assessment tool. Candidates with VTS credentialing are eligible for compensation commensurate with experience.
We also offer competitive shift differential pay for eligible hours worked for nights and weekends. Shift differentials are based on a 4-hour minimum.
Mon – Fri: 6pm to 8am = +$3.50/hr. Shift Differential
Sat & Sun: 8am to 6pm = +$3.50/hr. Shift Differential
Sat & Sun: 6pm to 8am = +$5.00/hr. Shift Differential
As a Veterinary Technician, you will:
Triage and obtain patient history
Identify patients at risk for arrest and initiate CPR.
Place IVC's and advanced catheters like jugular catheters, central lines or PICC lines.
Monitor and care for ventilator cases
Work alongside other skilled technicians and assistants in providing excellent, advanced medicine to your patients.
Have a passion for helping mentor and and train fellow associates.
Nurse critically ill patients back to health and reunite them with their pet parents.
Perform other relevant roles/responsibilities.
Why BluePearl?
Our passion is pets. We offer Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
We encourage you to grow with us. Our associates are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience. We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops. As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in their career.
To transform and lead the industry through innovative quality medicine and care, we understand the importance of continuous learning. We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.
We value your health and well-being as an associate by providing you with the following:
Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Parental Leave Benefits
Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options
Paid Time Off and Floating Holiday Plans
Health Savings Account
Flexible Savings Account
401(k) Retirement Plan
Annual Scrub Allowance: full-time associates receive $200/year in BluePearl store credit.
Referral Bonus Program
State licensure reimbursements
VTNE reimbursements
Additional VTS benefits – pursuing & established VTS technicians.
Our Continuing Education Plan includes $500/year reimbursement for CVT and $750/year for VTS. The Continuing Education allowance can roll over up to $1,500 for CVT and VTS associates. Non-Credentialed, full-time Paraprofessionals are eligible for an annual CE stipend of $150. Full-time CVT associates also receive 8 hours of CE paid hours each year. Full-time VTS associates receive 12 hours of CE paid each year. Paid CE hours can be carried over year to year up to a maximum of 24 hours. Newly hired associates will receive a pro-rated amount of any CE benefit for which they are eligible.
BluePearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and you will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.
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Other facts
About BluePearl Pet Hospital
We have hospitals located throughout the country, many of which are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Our veterinarians use innovative procedures, high-tech equipment and the latest treatment methods to provide comprehensive medical care to pets. We combine this expertise with a love for animals and the belief that kindness is the foundation of veterinary medicine.
Our mission: Provide exceptional specialty and emergency care for pets by supporting each other through our shared passion, knowledge and talents.
At BluePearl, we recognize that pets are part of the family. We honor the human-animal bond by providing the very best in advanced medical care for pets – including techniques that were once reserved exclusively for humans.
Our vision: Elevate the industry in pursuit of sustainable veterinary excellence so pets receive the best care when they need it most.
We are committed to upholding the highest medical standards and are constantly searching for new and better ways to treat our patients and advance our profession.
Our Guiding Principles
These Five Principles connect all of our BluePearl hospitals and guide the actions and decisions of our Associates every day.
Quality: Quality begins with delivering our best to the people and pets we serve. It continues through all that we do.
Responsibility: We take responsibility without being asked. We support the responsibilities of others.
Mutuality: A mutual benefit is a shared benefit. A shared benefit will endure.
Efficiency: Our resources are precious. Being efficient helps us accomplish more and waste less.
Freedom: Freedom lets us shape our future. Performance allows us to remain free.
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What you'll do
- As a Veterinary Technician, you will triage patients, monitor critically ill patients, and assist in advanced medical procedures. You will also mentor and train fellow associates while providing excellent care to pets.
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