What are the responsibilities and job description for the Veterinary Assistant - Ophthalmology position at Thrive Pet Healthcare?
Description
Veterinary Assistant
Eye Care for Animals Bestgate
Annapolis, MD
Schedule: Full-time 5 days a week, no weekends
Compensation: $17-$22/hour
About You
You’ll play an important role in pets’ lives by providing end-to-end care for our precious patients. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests, to support services including intake and discharging patients. This role will also be cross trained to assist the Client Service Representative team.
The success of your patients’ care matters to you, and your success matters to us.
Experience & Skills Requirements
Skills
Here, you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:
Benefits – our care in action
Benefits
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:
Thrive Pet Healthcare creates the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners. Today, its network of 360 primary, emergency, and specialty hospitals across the U.S. cares for pets of all ages and health needs, while portfolio companies provide tools and technology that help veterinary teams work smarter and deliver better care. Thrive invests in its people—through mentorship, leadership programs, continuing education, and well-being initiatives—so teams can grow and feel supported. For pet owners, convenient solutions such as a mobile app, digital booking, Thrive PlusTM membership, HereFurYou Helpline, an online pharmacy and flexible financial options* make accessing quality care simpler— giving families the peace of mind their pets deserve. Learn more at thrivepetcare.com.
We welcome you to join our story and join where #WeThriveTogether.
Veterinary Assistant
Eye Care for Animals Bestgate
Annapolis, MD
Schedule: Full-time 5 days a week, no weekends
Compensation: $17-$22/hour
About You
You’ll play an important role in pets’ lives by providing end-to-end care for our precious patients. Your life-changing work will range from the hands-on care of facilitating outpatient treatments and performing laboratory tests, to support services including intake and discharging patients. This role will also be cross trained to assist the Client Service Representative team.
The success of your patients’ care matters to you, and your success matters to us.
Experience & Skills Requirements
- 6 months of animal handling experience
- Veterinary Assistant/Client Service experience highly preferred
- Understand and embrace emotional intelligence
- Communicate effectively and with confidence
- Be resilient and ready to tackle any challenges head on
- Have a sincere desire to help pets and their people
- Support veterinarians and Vet Techs to ensure quality veterinary care.
- With each hospital function, assist veterinarians and the medical team to maximize productivity and maintain positive patient flow.
- Help Technicians with tech appointments
- Collect Animals for treatments and assist technicians with laboratory tests
- Assist with radiographs and ultrasounds
- Walk, feed, water, and give medications to patients as directed by the DVM
- Assist in maintaining relevant, comprehensive medical records with the support of practice systems.
- Use safe restraining techniques, follow standard protocols, and sustain clean, sterile, organized treatment areas, exam rooms, and labs.
Skills
Here, you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. 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 designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
Benefits – our care in action
Benefits
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 easy access to therapy through Lyra Health
- Paid parental leave
- Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
- Subsidized backup childcare and elder care
- Expert advice, support and network discounts for fertility and family planning
- FREE CE courses
- Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
- Student loan support tools and assistance
- Some benefits shown are only for full-time team members who work 30 hours or more per week. Certain Benefits may be subject to waiting periods or length of service requirements.
Thrive Pet Healthcare creates the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners. Today, its network of 360 primary, emergency, and specialty hospitals across the U.S. cares for pets of all ages and health needs, while portfolio companies provide tools and technology that help veterinary teams work smarter and deliver better care. Thrive invests in its people—through mentorship, leadership programs, continuing education, and well-being initiatives—so teams can grow and feel supported. For pet owners, convenient solutions such as a mobile app, digital booking, Thrive PlusTM membership, HereFurYou Helpline, an online pharmacy and flexible financial options* make accessing quality care simpler— giving families the peace of mind their pets deserve. Learn more at thrivepetcare.com.
We welcome you to join our story and join where #WeThriveTogether.
Salary : $17 - $22