Veterinary Technician
Description
Veterinary Technician
Full-time
Cedar Park, TX
**Sign-on bonus available
Cypress Creek Pet Care is looking for a Veterinary Technician to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.
At Cypress Creek, 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 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.
Role Responsibilities:
- Provides animal care by determining animal requirements and obtaining medical histories.
- Provides general animal husbandry based off required needs.
- Maintains supplies and equipment.
- Maintains medical records.
- Completes laboratory tests and studies and diagnostic imaging.
- Takes vital signs and collects laboratory diagnostic samples.
- Administers medications, drugs, and vaccines.
- Supports animal examinations by assembling required supplies and instruments.
- Prepares surgery table instruments.
- Completes local/regional anesthesia.
- Places catheters
- Maintains sterile conditions.
- Obtains and verifies medications.
- Cleans animal cages and equipment
- Maintains safe, secure, healthy, and humane environment by sterilizing and wrapping instruments, sanitizing operating areas, verifying shelf life of medications, and complying with legal regulations.
- Enhances service reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Experience & Skills Requirements:
- Proficient in venipuncture, IVC placement
- Basic drug calculations and administration
- Anesthesia monitoring/ troubleshooting
- Cytology and laboratory knowledge
Our Ideal Candidate:
- LVT preferred
- Strong work ethic
- Self-motivated
- Ability to multitask in a fast paced environment
- 1+ years of experience as a Veterinary Technician
- Knowledge of animal behavior
- Animal husbandry
- Love of animals
- Documentation with computer and typing skills
- Analyzing information
- Clinical skills
- Use of medical technologies
About the Hospital
Cypress Creek Pet Care is a small animal practice located in Cedar Park, Texas providing high quality, dedicated care for every patient. Offering primary, emergency, and boarding services. Our hospital has a collaborative team and is committed to a positive work environment. We pride ourselves on compassionate care and high standards of medical excellence.
Join our tenured team of doctors, nursing staff and compassionate front office to ensure your clients and patients are getting the best in veterinary medicine care
We are open Monday – Friday, 8:00am - 6:00pm and Saturday, 8:00am - 12:00pm
Serving Cedar Park, Austin, Leander
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 a connected 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.