Urgent Care Hours: 8am until 10:30pm Monday through Friday!
Veterinary technician
Happy Tails is seeking full or part-time emergency care veterinary technicians to join our practice! Our Hospital takes your work life balance, continued education, and contributions to the business seriously. We aim to provide an environment, training, and culture that promotes the values of transparency, compassion, and personal responsibility.
We are seeking individuals who have open availability mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
What we offer…
● Compensation that is commensurate with experience and applicable licenses and certifications. Our pay scale is based on proven skills and past applicable job experience.
● Insurance plans via CareFirst BlueCross/BlueShield for health, vision, and dental.
● Simple IRA retirement plans via Vanguard.
● Paid Time Off and Sick Time Hours
● Covering the cost of continued education opportunities, including conventions, symposiums, and online intensives.
● Covering the cost of renewing your technician license and veterinary memberships such as MDVMA, AVMA, AAHA, and other relevant memberships. If you are licensed to work as a technician in another state, we will cover the cost to transfer your license to the state of Maryland.
Our ideal candidate…
● Values client education, and believes that clients are partners in their pet’s health journey.
● Is passionate about the hospital and being an active part of the business’s success.
● Believes that every member of the hospital, from doctor to kennel assistant to CSR, is a valuable member of the hospital’s function and strives to work with all members as a team.
● Is experienced with or excited to learn about working with Fear Free methods.
● Has at least 4+ year's experience as a veterinary technician. Veterinary technician license preferred but not required.
● Is able to work quickly and efficiently, and can handle client concerns with ease and compassion, especially during stressful emergency cases.
Relief Veterinarian
Happy Tails Veterinary Hospital wants YOU to join our team! We are an AAHA accredited, traditional and integrative health, privately owned veterinary hospital in Pasadena, MD located near beautiful Downs Park! We are a combination general practice and emergency hospital servicing dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, amphibians, exotic and pocket pets.
We are seeking Emergency Relief Veterinarians to join our team. Any relief veterinarian we hire will work 2 to 3 shifts per week on a regular basis. Our goal is that you are able to work a regular schedule to follow up with patients you see and be able to cover vacations for our full time doctors.
What we offer…
- A competitive salary, beginning at $130 per hour. Based upon experience, certificates, and skill level we can negotiate a higher hourly rate.
- Providing the opportunity to expand your surgical skills including splenectomies, GDVs, prophylactic gastropexies, abdominal exploratory, foreign body removals, amputations, and more!
- 4,700 total square feet of clinical space with 1,500 feet just added! Our hospital is ready to gain your personal touches and make the space your own! We want YOU to grow with our practice! Our space includes:
- AI-powered dictation software, to streamline note taking
- Full-body digital x-ray suite
- Modern surgery suite and expanded surgery prep
- Advanced dental suite with digital radiography and advanced equipment
- Full in-house laboratory suite
- Cryotherapy equipment
- Ultrasound color doppler, EKG, capnograph, and other advanced monitoring equipment
- Dedicated isolation exam rooms
- Two treatment areas and eight exam rooms with computers in each room
- CUBEX brand smart cabinets for ease of pulling and dispensing medications
- Instinct EMR practice management software, designed for an automated workflow
- Even more equipment to make your job easier!
Our ideal candidate…
- Values client education and believes that clients are partners in their pet’s health journey.
- Is able or excited to learn how to perform hands-on skills such as intubating, calculating dosages, drawing up controlled drugs, and restraining patients, IV catheter placement, naso-gastric tube placement, ultrasound fast scans, among other skills.
- Is passionate about the hospital and being an active part of the business’s success.
- Believes that every member of the hospital, from doctor to kennel assistant to CSR, is a valuable member of the hospital’s function and strives to work with all members as a team.
- Is experienced with or excited to learn holistic treatment modalities including acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, physical therapy, and Therapy Laser.
- Is experienced with or excited to learn about working with Fear Free methods.
- Has their own interests in treatment modalities they want to pursue and provide to our patients.
Take your veterinarian externship at happy tails!
We want to teach the next generation of veterinarians!
Happy Tails Veterinary Hospital is open to any student, enrolled in a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program, who is seeking an externship to complete their academic requirements ALL YEAR ROUND! We look forward to providing you with the environment, equipment, and training needed to excel in the veterinary field!
Our hospital is equipped to…
- Perform routine wellness and urgent care for dogs, cats, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals, and birds
- Perform routine and complicated surgeries with full monitoring ability
- Perform dental cleanings and extractions with dental x-rays
- Process a variety of in-house lab testing for blood, urine, and cytologies
- Perform Therapy Laser, Acupuncture, Cryotherapy and Herbal Therapy treatments
- Capture high resolution digital radiographs
- Maintain paperless digital records
Your education is important to us!
Educating the next generation of veterinarians is a huge contribution to the success of the entire industry. If we can make it possible for you to be the best doctor you can be, then we will be your teaching hospital!
We believe in providing a hands-on approach to your training!
o You WILL be documenting chart notes for SOAPs and lab interpretations
o You WILL be examining and assisting in interpreting lab results for in clinic and referred tests
o You WILL be performing dental scalings and taking radiographs
o You WILL be taking part in conducting physical exams
o You WILL be observing and assisting with surgeries
o You WILL be doing anesthesia for surgery patients
o You WILL be communicating with owners
We will provide housing for you as well as transportation to and from the hospital if needed.
We can complete any paperwork necessary for you to pass your externship and will work directly with your professors to guarantee your success with us. Our knowledgeable and caring team is here to help you.
Work directly with patients and clients, which is how you'll best learn your craft