Veterinary Technician - Emergency Shift Lead

Description

Position at Thrive Pet Healthcare Specialists - San Antonio

Emergency Veterinary Technician – Shift Lead

San Antonio, TX

Thrive Pet Healthcare Specialists San Antonio is looking for a Shift Lead Vet Tech to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.

At TPHS, a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner, you will have the support, tools, and resources to elevate your skills. As a hospital deeply rooted in the local community, you will experience the best of both worlds: a genuine local feel with the benefits of Thrive's national resources.

About You

As a Shift Lead Vet Tech, you'll play an important role in pets' lives by providing comprehensive care throughout their journey. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests, to surgery assistance, to support services including admitting and discharging patients.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Demonstrates highly advanced proficiency as a Veterinary Technician within their appropriate department and maintains all relevant skills and knowledge in order to lead other technicians and assistants in the delivery of quality nursing care
• Works with clinician on shift to plan and organize work flow for the shift
• Creates effective working relationships with hospital leadership
• Serves as a mentor to lower-level staff by demonstrating positive work habits, effective clinical skills and business knowledge
• Work with Technician Supervisor to implement process improvement initiatives that remove barriers to excellent service
• Facilitate an environment of ongoing communication and feedback
• Coach team members
• May provide feedback to Veterinary Supervisor related to technician and technician assistant performance to be utilized during annual review

Requirements

• Education equivalent to two years of college (pre-veterinary curriculum) or technical school. Preferred: Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT)
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team. Previous supervisory or lead experience required.
• Demonstrated advanced skill level and ability to lead other technicians is required
• Strong interpersonal skills: able to communicate effectively with clients, doctors, management and hospital personnel
• Obtain relevant health history and information from clients and maintain medical charts.
• Use safe restraining techniques, follow standard protocols, and sustain clean, sterile, organized treatment areas, exam rooms, and labs.
• Be willing to guide, mentor, and support fellow team members.

About the Hospital

Thrive Pet Healthcare Specialists is an emergency and specialty hospital located in San Antonio, TX.

Our Emergency department is open 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Benefits – our care in action

Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members’ emotional, physical, professional, and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance, and short- and long- term disability plans, we offer eligible team members:

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) with employer match
• Mental health resources, including 24/7 access to Lyra Health
• Paid parental leave
• Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
• Employer-sponsored childcare and elder care
• Personalized care for every family-forming journey
• Discretionary funds and FREE CE courses
• Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
• Student loan management tools and assistance

Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.

We listen to your needs and then meet them. Through training and free CE experiences, your career development can flourish. And in our locally rooted, nationally connected community, you’ll be able to make connections, access opportunities and find support with ease.

Support for you is as vital as the support you provide.

You’ll Thrive With Us

At Thrive, you have the opportunity to develop your career in a way that best suits your goals. Take advantage of our comprehensive learning and skill-building programs to enhance your expertise. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:

• Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
• Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
• A program to designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
• Scholarship opportunities and tuition reimbursement
• Move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment – across the nation.
• Leadership training for a thriving and long career in the veterinary profession.

About Thrive

Vet-founded and Austin-born, Thrive Pet Healthcare has expanded to over 380 partner hospitals nationwide, united by a mission to shape the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and aconnected community of teams and partners.

We bridge general practice, urgent care, specialty, and emergency care, and our locally rooted, nationally connected hospitals benefit from Thrive's extensive resources while maintaining their unique identities.

We believe that supporting our people is the key to helping pets thrive through every stage of life.

Join us where #WeThriveTogether. We provide customizable professional development opportunities, a supportive work environment that values work-life rhythms, and 24/7 mental health support.

At Thrive Pet Healthcare, we are committed to creating a culture where everyone from any background can be heard, respected, and valued. We pledge to build an inclusive environment nurtured by respectful curiosity to support, encourage, and celebrate the diverse voices of our teams and the communities we serve.