Location: 3200 Eastern Blvd, Montgomery, AL 36116

VCA Carriage Hills Animal Hospital is hiring a highly skilled Veterinary Technician with a passion for emergency and critical care medicine to support our ICU on overnights.

About Us

VCA Carriage Hills has a longstanding reputation in the River Region as a provider of quality veterinary services in a friendly and compassionate atmosphere.

Our practice is known for quality veterinary care due to the range of services offered and our efforts to fill the area’s need for specialty services.

We are a 24-hour emergency and referral hospital with services including wellness care, surgery, dentistry, diagnostics, ultrasound, digital x-rays, endoscopy, oncology, internal medicine, boarding, and grooming. We also offer cancer treatment, orthopedic care, neurosurgical care, physical therapy, and critical care.

Check out our website here: www.vcahospitals.com/carriage-hills

About the Role

As ICU Veterinary Technician, you will support our emergency and critical care services by creating a positive, low-stress atmosphere for our patients, clients and team. Duties will include:

• Patient triage and assessment
• Compassionate and attentive care for our hospitalized patients
• Client education and care
• Venipuncture and catheter placement
• Medication and IV infusion preparation and administration
• Surgical preparation and assisting
• Anesthesia monitoring and recovery
• Radiology and diagnostics
• Lab sample collection and processing
• Safe and effective patient handling and restraint
• Medical recordkeeping

Why VCA

VCA Animal Hospitals is a community of over 800 hospitals across the US, including primary care, emergency, and specialty medicine. We offer world class medicine with hometown care. Together we are taking care of the future of veterinary medicine.

This means taking care of our people. We are passionate about supporting our technicians and assistants and are committed to your personal career development. At VCA, you will enjoy an inclusive work environment where you can focus on your career, your happiness, and the patients you serve.

Some of the many benefits we offer:

• Access to the people and resources of a large veterinary community
• Advancement and leadership opportunities
• Medical, dental & vision insurance, a variety of additional coverage options
• Access to free mental health care (up to 12 sessions a year), life assistance program, resources like Headspace, etc.
• Fully employer-paid life, long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Paid vacation, paid sick time, holiday pay
• Paid parental leave
• Continuing Education allowance for full time credentialed veterinary technicians
• CE and learning opportunities for all associates
• Tuition support and sponsorships including Veterinary Technology AAS, BAS completion and more
• Veterinary Technician license reimbursement
• Generous hospital discounts for your pets, a variety of other discounts
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Referral bonus opportunities
• Opportunities to give back through VCA Charities and community partnerships

Interested in this opportunity? Apply! We look forward to hearing from you.