Veterinary Technician Manager - Specialty

Pay: $35.00 - $55.00 / hour

This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience.

Sign-on bonus of up to $5,000, based on experience and applicable licensure. Eligible credentials include LVT, CVT, RVT, LVMT, or VTS.

We also offer competitive shift differential pay for eligible hours worked for nights and weekends.

*Shift differentials are based on a 4-hour minimum.

For example:

• Mon – Fri: 6pm to 8am = $3.50 Shift Differential

• Sat & Sun: 6pm to 8am = $5.00 Shift Differential

• Sat & Sun: 8am to 6pm = $3.50 Shift Differential

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be a leader in a dynamic team of veterinary professionals. The ideal candidate will be excellent at training and mentoring. They will have advanced veterinary skills. We have a dynamic work environment, exciting medical cases, and great career development opportunity. We are looking for someone with excellent communication, time management and organizational skills.

As a Specialty Veterinary Technician Manager, you will…

• Demonstrate highly advanced proficiency as a Veterinary Technician or Advanced Patient Care Associate within their appropriate department and maintains all related skills and knowledge.

• Create effective working relationships with hospital leadership to ensure standards of care are understood, effectively communicated, and delivered upon.

• Serve as a subject-matter expert and resource to Technicians and Assistants regarding daily operations, patient care, and skill development.

• Serve as a mentor to staff by demonstrating positive work habits, effective clinical skills and business knowledge.

• Identify conflicts in the workplace and seek assistance in resolution in order to create effective working relationships.

• Coach staff to create a culture of strong performance and high productivity.

• Clearly communicate with team members to ensure consistent understanding of new ideas, changes in protocol, policies, and impending changes.

• Build positive relationships across the hospital and administration to facilitate an environment of teamwork.

• Implement process improvement initiatives.

• Work with the Technician Training Manager to schedule ongoing training.

• Document performance-related issues, assesses team members during annual review, and provides hospital leadership with recommendations related to performance management and discipline.

• Other job duties as assigned

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 technicians 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 his/her career.

• In order 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:

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options.

• Parental Leave Benefits

• Flexible work schedules.

• 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.