Veterinary Technician - Surgery - BluePearl

**BluePearl** **Pet Hospital in Renton is hiring a Licensed Veterinary Technician to join our Surgery Department!** + Are you committed and passionate about enriching lives through remarkable care for pets? + Do you thrive ina fast-paced, dynamic, and rewarding work environment? + Are you a team player who enjoys working together on a team to provide quality care for pets? **If you answered "yes" to these questions, then we want to hear from you.** **Schedule:** M-Th Day shift **LVT I Pay:** $25.60 - $36.80 / hour **This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through CareerTrax leveling system** . 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 = $4.00 Shift Differential Sat & Sun: 6pm to 8am = $5.50 Shift Differential Sat & Sun: 8am to 6pm = $4.00 Shift Differential **As a Surgery Veterinary** **Technician,** **you will:** + Can follow detailed orders and builds trust with the clinician quickly. + Skilled in intubation, extubating, and monitoring anesthetic procedures. + Understands the importance of sterility in all procedures performed and has prior knowledge and experience with sterilization processes. + Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values. + Utilize their ability to place peripheral intravenous catheter in cephalic vein. + Performs physical exam; accurately counts heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratoryrateand effort. + Understands normal vital parameters and alerts doctor when abnormal. + Able to set up intravenous fluids. + Administers subcutaneous fluids. + Canoperateall brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors. + Able to disconnect and connectpatientfrom intravenous fluids aseptically. + Ability tomonitorpatient response to fluid therapy including signs of overload. **Why** **BluePearl** **?** + Our passion is pets. We offerTrupanionpet 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 tomaintaina 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 all qualified applicants 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 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_