The Veterinary Medical Center is a privately owned 18,500 sq foot facility located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. We have two openings for Critical Care Veterinary Technicians. A VTS in Emergency & Critical Care is helpful, but not required. Experience working with a Criticalist for 1 year or extensive veterinary technician experience plus a CVT or LVT is required. Must be able to proficiently place IV catheters, know most veterinary drugs and their purposes, be able to calculate drug doses and CRI's, be extremely detail oriented, have experience placing NG tubes and central lines, be able to monitor critical patients, have experience running codes/CPR, and more. In addition, excellent customer service and interpersonal skills are essential to what we do. Full time or part time is available. The full-timeposition is typically 3 days per week, 12 hours each shift. No overnights are required, but occasional rotating weekend shifts are needed.

About Us: Our hospital contains both a General Practice as well as an Emergency & Critical Care department. Our GP works out of a 6500 sq foot space, and our Emergency and Critical Care department will work out of a new 12,000 sq foot space estimated to be completed in March 2024. Our hospital was designed to be open and spacious. Our Emergency & Critical Care department will have 13 exam rooms, a welcoming reception area, two surgery suites, an on-site animal blood bank (run by our Crit Care team), a dedicated ultrasound room, conference rooms, a separate cat ward, a dedicated ICU, separation isolation facilities, and more. We have brand new equipment including full anesthesia monitors (HR, RR, CO2, O2, temp. etc), doppler and oscillometric BP, three ICU oxygen units, heska fluid pumps, digital radiology with telemedicine, cardiopet, ultrasound machines, IDEXX in house blood machines (cbc, chem, u/a, pt/ptt, iSTAT, lactate, and more), a new cardiostart defibrillator, companion animal laser machine, endoscopy, Vet Stem, high flow oxygen, NOVA, mechanical ventilation, hyperbaric, CT, and more! We are actively recruiting specialists with a goal to have a complete specialty team in the very near future.

We have two Criticalists currently on staff. We have a team of 10 full time emergency doctors. We have a solid team of veterinary technicians. Our hospital is open 24/7 without any lapses in coverage. We are known for our approach to customer/patient care and have been a part of the Bradenton/Sarasota community for 20 years. Our hospital is privately owned by a veterinarian who has practiced emergency medicine for 20 years.

The Veterinary Medical Center at Lakewood Ranch is a new stand-alone veterinary hospital that opened in November of 2019. Our hospital is privately owned and located in a new fast growing community about an hour south of Tampa and 20-30 minutes from the famous white sandy beaches of Sarasota and Anna Maria Island. Lakewood Ranch was recently named one of the top growing planned communities in the United States and our region was voted one of the best places to live in America! If you love golfing, wildlife, the beaches, arts, nightlife and shopping, you will love living here!

Lakewood Ranch is an award-winning master-planned community in Sarasota and Manatee counties on the West Coast of Florida. Lakewood Ranch is just minutes from the Gulf Coast beaches and cultural assets in Sarasota. It is also home to A-rated schools, the Sarasota Polo Club, the 75-acre Premier Sports Campus, and has its own Main Street with theaters, shopping and dining, and more. For more information visit www.lakewoodranch.com.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $26.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Relocation assistance
• Vision insurance

Healthcare setting:

• Clinic

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Weekends as needed

License/Certification:

• CVT/LVT (Required)

Work Location: In person