Bovine Veterinary Technician
Description
Bovine Veterinary Technician
Full-time
Elgin Veterinary Hospital
Elgin, Texas
Elgin Veterinary Hospital is looking for a Bovine Vet Tech to join our team as part of the Thrive Pet Healthcare community.
At Elgin Veterinary Hospital, 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:
- Assist with appointments
- Run lab work
- Administer treatments: oral, IV, IM, ophthalmic
- Prepare medications
- Set-up for procedures
- Take TPR's
- On-call rotation duties
Experience & Skills Requirements:
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Positive attitude
- Must be able to work well independently and as a team
- Must have previous equine experience that includes working with bovine in a professional environment
- Know how to handle large animals, give injections and apply bandages.
- Have a teamwork mindset, be able to anticipate veterinarian needs
- Available to work 40+ hours a week, rotating full weekend shifts and some night shifts are a possibility.
- Have exceptional dedication to animal care and facility cleanliness
- Must be able to lift 50+ Ibs
- Must be able to work outdoors in inclement conditions including but not limited to excessive heat/cold temperatures, raining and icy weather conditions
- Ability to physically stoop or bend
About the Hospital
Elgin Veterinary Hospital located in Elgin, TX is an Equine and Bovine emergency referral and primary care facility that offers the best in medical and surgical treatments. We emphasize exceptional customer service and patient care.
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.