About this role
Education: College/CEGEP. or equivalent experience. Work setting: Animal hospital.
Tasks
- Collect samples and perform other laboratory tests.
- Handle, restrain and care for animals undergoing treatment and surgery.
- Produce diagnostic radiographs.
- Assist veterinarian before, during and after surgery.
- Prepare and administer medications and vaccines under direction of veterinarian.
- Administer treatments as prescribed by veterinarian.
- Counsel clients on animal health care.
- Conduct and assist in laboratory research.
- May perform a variety of office management and clerical duties.
- Perform routine animal dental procedures and assist veterinarians with animal dentistry.
- Provide nursing care and rehabilitation therapy for animals.
- Provide wound and bandage care.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Registration by a provincial or territorial, or regional association as Registered Animal Health Technologist, Registered Veterinary Technician.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Attention to detail.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Work under pressure.
- Physically demanding.
- Personal suitability: Accurate.
- Client focus.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Initiative.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Versatility.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- Support for persons with disabilities: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.
Support for Veterans: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans . Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers . Support for mature workers: Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers . Supports for visible minorities: Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.