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Vet Tech Assistant

Dauphin Veterinary Clinic

Maternity Leave Contract

The Dauphin Veterinary Clinic seeks a caring and empathetic animal lover to join our team as a Vet Tech Assistant. As a Tech Assistant, you are responsible for supporting the Technologist Team in caring for our patients while delivering exceptional customer service to their owners. Your role reflects our commitment to treating all clients and patients with respect, compassion, and empathy.

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Important tasks performed by the reception team include:

** Maintaining a comfortable and sanitary environment for all patients

** Exercising, weighing, restraining, feeding, watering, and medicating patients.

** Perform veterinary reception and administrative duties, including triaging incoming phone calls, invoicing, scheduling appointments and maintaining medical and communication logs.

** Clinic maintenance, including extensive cleaning, equipment maintenance, and inventory management.

** Communicate with clients using a professional, cheerful, and helpful attitude, using knowledge of preventative health care recommendations to accurately answer questions and relay doctor’s or technologist’s instructions and information.

Job Summary

Job Type: Full-time, 12 month Contract with potential for permanent

Pay: $17.25 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Additional pay: Bonus pay, Overtime pay

Schedule:8 hour shift. Day shift. Monday to Friday

Required Qualifications

  • Experience handling animals such as 4H, shelter volunteering, family farm, etc.

  • Customer service or account management experience.

  • Comfortable handling animals, including cats, dogs, birds, cattle, horses, pigs, etc.

  • Ability to meet the job's physical demands (e.g., lifting up to 60+ lbs., bending over, standing for long periods of time)

  • Certificate from a Veterinary Assistant program an asset​, but not required.

  • Previous animal industry experience a plus (pet store, doggy daycare, kennel, etc.)

To Apply

Please include your resume and a cover letter outlining why you are the ideal candidate for this role. Only candidates with a cover letter will be considered, and only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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The Dauphin and Ste Rose vet clinics are located on Treaty No. 2 Territory, the traditional lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Assiniboine, Dakota & Dene Peoples, and homeland of the Métis Nation

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