Veterinary Technician 3-Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Available Title(s):
524C-YN_CS_NPS - Veterinary Specialist 3

Business Title:
Veterinary Technician 3-Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Employee Type:
Classified

Time Type:
Full time

Position Term:
12 Month

Position Details:

Summary of Duties:

These positions are all in WSU's Veterinary Teaching Hospital and are considered clinical in nature as opposed to a laboratory environment. These position work with client owned animals. Individuals in these positions hold a Veterinary Technician Specialty (VTS) in specialty area and/or may supervise and coordinate daily work schedule and functions of technical staff for all services in assigned area. Provide veterinary technical support and assist during examination, diagnostic procedures, induction, anesthesia, surgery, and recovery of animals within assigned services. Assist with client communications related to general advice and recommendations, scheduling of appointments, receiving and discharge of patients, updates on patient status, provision of cost estimates for patient care, and triage of phone calls. Schedule appointments as needed or directed. Provide instruction to veterinary students, interns, and residents. Assist with other instructional tasks related to animal medicine and surgery.

Veterinary Specialist 3/Technician Vacancies:

Clinical Instructional Services-DVM Teaching Program

This position provides skilled veterinary technician support and organizes live and cadaver animal instructional laboratories within the Veterinary Clinical Sciences professional degree program. Duties include teaching veterinary students in laboratory and surgical environments. Skilled veterinary technician duties include providing pre- and post-op care such as physical examinations, diagnostic procedures, anesthesia induction, surgery, recovery and discharge. This position will be called on to administer injections, and medication, draw blood, collect specimens and monitor vital signs of animals under the care of teaching animal protocols, while demonstrating and teaching students proper methods. This position may lead hourly employees and will assist with the organization, set-up and tear-down of teaching program labs.

Anesthesia

This position will work in collaboration with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital's clinical anesthesiologists to coordinate patient anesthesia schedules, check pre-op work ups, administer pre-op and induction medications, intubate and maintain an appropriate level of sedation or anesthesia. This position will also be involved with venous and arterial catheterization, and patient instrumentation as appropriate for the procedure. At this level you will be expected to have the ability to manage an ASA 4 or 5 level case with minimal support and for this reason you will need to have acquired a Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) designation. Managing these cases means you will be working in conjunction with clinicians and students to handle technical problems related to the delivery of anesthesia to patients which may include but is not limited to addressing inappropriate anesthetic depths, changes to cardiovascular status, addressing cardiac arrhythmias, and trouble-shooting monitor or equipment issues. There will also be a significant amount of teaching and mentoring to the fourth year veterinary students. This position will work with both large and small animal patients and therefore must have experience with both. This position will oversee and be expected to complete medical records to maintain patient data essential for accurate anesthesia records as well as insure proper charge capture. This position will also be expected to perform various analgesic blocks such as epidurals, dental blocks and brachial plexus blocks. There will be occasional on-call responsibilities. The expected schedule for this position will depend on the needs of the unit. There are currently four (4) positions available; 2 day shift, 1 swing shift and 1 overnight shift.

Small Animal ICU-

This critical position works in collaboration with the ICU technician supervisor and doctors to help carry out compassionate care to the most critical of the Small Animal teaching hospital patients. As a VTS certified technician you will be expected to have mastery of the more advanced technical skills such as setting central lines and PICC lines, placing male and female urinary catheters, performing arterial blood draws, and managing chest tubes and feeding tubes and properly setting up a variety of constant rate infusions. This position will be involved with teaching and mentoring fourth year veterinary students, and occasionally guiding interns and residents. Successful candidates demonstrate an established knowledge base of common emergency and critical care case types, as well as organizational and multi-tasking abilities. Successful candidates will have safe handling skills, flexible attitude and a calm demeanor when working with patients.

Oncology-VS3

The WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital seeks a licensed veterinary technician who has VTS certification, is a good team player and has exceptional patient care skills. As part of the oncology team, you will work closely with our clients and their pets and assist the veterinarians in performing radiation and chemotherapy treatments as well as follow up care. As an added plus you will be trained to help run the Linear Accelerator for the radiation treatments, a unique opportunity for any veterinary technician. To be successful in this position you need to have a strong work ethic and good communication skills and be an effective patient advocate. Organizational skills and solid all-around technical skills are important, especially atraumatic intubation and intravenous catheter placement. Come help us provide compassion and individualized care to our oncology patients and their family.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in a medical, biological, or allied field, and two years of applicable experience; or graduation from a two-year veterinary technician program, and two years of working experience with laboratory animals, at least six months must include experience directing the work of others; OR equivalent education/experience.
  
• Must meet the required criteria (WAC 246-935-060) to be eligible to sit for the Washington State veterinary technician exam and must pass the exam the first time it is available.
  
• Veterinary Technician Specialty (VTS) in specialty area.
  
• Must pass WSU radiation safety training exam first time it is available.
  
• Must be able to work on an occasional on-call schedule.
  
• For supervisory positions, must have 3 years of experience in a leadership role in a clinical veterinary setting
  
• Depending upon scheduling needs of the unit, evening, over-night and weekends shifts may be required.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience training and teaching students, interns and residents in specialty practice or academia.
  
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience with the care and treatment of animals in a veterinary practice
  

Additional Information:

Monthly Salary:

Range 53 | $4,425 - $5,960 (Step A - M) | Successful candidates typically begin at the beginning of the salary range and receive scheduled salary increment increases in accordance with WAC 357-28 OR applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement.

WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes: paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts.

For a more detailed summary of benefits offered by WSU for classified staff visit: https://hrs.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-Benefit-Overview-for-Civil-Service.pdf.

Find total compensation here: https://hrs.wsu.edu/managers/recruitment-toolkit/total-compensation/.

FTE: 100%

These are permanent positions.

City, State, Zip:

Pullman, WA, 99164

Department:

Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Department Link:

vcs.vetmed.wsu.edu

Background Check:

This position has been designated by the department to require a background check because it requires access to children or vulnerable adults as defined by RCW 74.34, engages in law enforcement, requires security clearance, interacts with WSU students in a counseling or advising capacity, has access to personal identifying and/or financial information, unsupervised access to university buildings/property, or other business-related need. A background check will not be completed until an initial determination of qualification for employment has been made.

Screening Begin Date:

These positions have begun screening applicants and will remain ongoing until all positions have been filled.

Application Instructions:

All applicants must upload a cover letter and resume/cv to their online application. Application materials should clearly communicate how the applicant meets all required qualifications.

• External candidates, please upload all documents in the 'Resume/CV' section of your application. Internal candidates, please upload all documents in the 'Resume/Cover Letter' section of your application.
  
• Documents may be submitted in one file or separate files.
  
• Applicants are encouraged to upload as a PDF if possible.
  
• Applicants will be requested to provide contact information for professional references within the online application.
  

Required Documents:

• Resume
  
• Cover letter
  

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Members of ethnic minorities, women, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam-era, recently separated veterans, and other protected veteran, persons of disability and/or persons age 40 and over are encouraged to apply.

WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

WSU is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact Human Resource Services: 509-335-4521 (v), Washington State TDD Relay Service: Voice Callers: 1-800-833-6384; TDD Callers: 1-800-833-6388, 509-335-1259(f), or hrs@wsu.edu.

To apply, visit https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Pullman-WA/Veterinary-Specialist-3_R-472

Washington State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Educator and Employer.







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