Essential Job Duties
Are you ready to elevate your clinical skills in a dynamic, cutting-edge teaching environment?
The Anesthesia Department provides advanced anesthetic support to a varied patient population across the hospital campus, including small, large, and exotic species. This role requires advanced veterinary medical knowledge, strong time-management skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, teaching-focused clinical environment. The position collaborates closely with specialty services, clinicians, staff, and students to coordinate and deliver high-quality anesthetic and perioperative care. Responsibilities include comprehensive patient assessment, administration of complex anesthetic and medical treatments, continuous monitoring during diagnostic and surgical procedures, post-operative recovery, and strict adherence to infectious disease and safety protocols. This role also supports hospital operations through documentation, workflow coordination, and the training and mentoring of learners and new staff.
Key Responsibilities
Advanced Patient Care & Anesthesia Support
Provide comprehensive anesthetic and peri-anesthetic care, including pre-anesthetic assessments, high-risk drug calculations, advanced monitoring, life-saving interventions, pain management, and post-operative recovery for small, large, and exotic species. Requires previous experience in a canine / feline veterinary setting.
Monitoring, Equipment & Technical Proficiency
Operate, interpret, and maintain advanced anesthetic and physiologic monitoring equipment and specialized patient care devices to ensure patient safety during surgical, diagnostic, and imaging procedures.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Coordinate care and communicate effectively with specialty services, clinicians, staff, and students across multiple hospital service areas to support complex medical and surgical cases.
Education, Training & Mentorship
Orient, teach, and coach new staff, students, interns, and residents on anesthetic procedures, hospital policies, and patient care standards in a teaching-hospital environment.
Documentation, Safety & Compliance
Accurately document patient care and treatments within hospital information systems while maintaining a clean, safe work environment and adhering to infectious disease protocols, OSHA, EHS, and radiation safety standards. Must have the ability to work with or around sick animals, potentially hazardous materials, cleaning chemicals, gas anesthetics, zoonotic diseases, and unpleasant odors.
Physical & Operational Requirements
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodations. Ability to work beyond scheduled work hours when needed.
Other Work/Responsibilities
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Experience/Education
Completion of an accredited training program in the area of assignment; or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Some positions may require additional Training, Certifications, or Licensure.
Required Qualifications
N/A
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience as a veterinary technician in a clinical setting; preferably at a teaching hospital.
- Experience using electronic veterinary medical record systems to accurately document anesthetic protocols, treatments, and patient monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience training or mentoring veterinary students, interns, residents, or veterinary technicians in anesthesia, perioperative care, or clinical procedures within a teaching or specialty practice.
Required license or certification
- Licensed/Registered/Certified by any state
- Graduation from an AVMA fully accredited two- or four-year Veterinary Technician program
Position Number: 00112211
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