Overnight Veterinary Technician - ICU
About this role
BluePearl Pet Hospital in Conshohocken, PA is hiring a skilled and dedicated Veterinary Technician to join our Overnight Critical Care team!
In this role, you’ll sharpen your critical thinking and grow your skills while managing a variety of hospitalized cases. Play a vital role in real-time decisions and delivering life-saving care when pets need it most.
This position is eligible for up to a $3,000 sign on bonus based on credentialing + experience.
Schedule: 3x12
Pay: $22.15 - $44.00 / 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. For example:
Mon – Fri: 6pm to 8am = $3.50 Shift Differential
Sat & Sun: 8am to 6pm = $3.50 Shift Differential
Sat & Sun: 6pm to 8am = $5.00 Shift Differential
Duties an ICU/Critical Care Technician:
Continuous monitoring of critical patients (vitals, ECG, blood pressure, oxygenation, neurologic status)
Administering medications, CRIs, blood products, fluids, and emergency drugs
Managing oxygen therapy, ventilators, feeding tubes, urinary catheters, chest tubes, and central lines
Assisting with emergency procedures such as CPR, intubation, thoracocentesis, wound care, and stabilization
Performing diagnostics like blood draws, lab work, imaging prep, and sample collection
Pain management and patient comfort for trauma, post-op, or medically complex cases
Frequent reassessment and recognizing subtle changes in condition quickly
Communicating updates to veterinarians and collaborating on treatment plans
Educating and updating pet owners during critical hospitalizations
Maintaining detailed medical records and treatment sheets
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:
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
Parental leave benefits
Flexible work schedules
401k and retirement planning
Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans
A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment
We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets.
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 each applicant will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual or affectional preference, 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.
Company at a glance
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.
Our Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.mars.com/privacy.
Top Benefits
- Sign-on Bonus
- Trupanion Pet Insurance
- Employee Discounts on Pet Treatments, Procedures, and Food
- Annual Continuing Education Allowance
- Free Continuing Education Sessions
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Work Schedules
- 401k
- Retirement Planning
- Paid Time Off
- Floating Holiday Plans
- Access to Licensed Social Worker
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