Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Dorp; Staten NY

Emergency Veterinary Assistant – New Dorp (Staten Island), NY

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Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States. Our mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most. We are revolutionizing emergency medicine with a “customer first” mentality and a true, employee‑centric work environment.

At VEG, we want people and their pets to feel safe, secure, and valued; we want our employees to feel the same way. Our goal is to deliver the best experience for both customers and teams, reflected in the highest NPS score in our industry. VEG is one of this year’s nominees for INC Magazine’s Best Places to Work.

You are passionate, motivated, and a team player who values learning and is honest and respectful to peers. You love working with animals and people, adapt to new scenarios, and think outside the box. You have excellent interpersonal skills across diverse groups, a positive attitude, and the ability to accomplish assigned tasks and ask for assistance when needed. You demonstrate strong communication skills with peers, customers, and the team.

• Treat each patient and customer with the highest level of compassion and care.
• Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
• Use understanding of common diseases, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to accurately triage incoming patients.
• Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand potential adverse effects.
• Set up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy including constant rate infusions and blood transfusion therapy.
• Contribute as a team member to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care.
• Participate in patient rounds to ensure continuity of care.
• Be trained to properly perform all aspects of CPR as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer.
• Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including in‑house and point‑of‑care tests and imaging.
• Assist in setting up, performing, monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia with LVT or DVM supervision.
• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and maintaining urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes.
• Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages and other oxygen administration techniques.
• Work alongside veterinary nurses as a vital member of the nursing care team.
• Obtain additional training along guided growth pathways offering roles in addition to direct nursing care such as veterinary technician credentialing, trainer role, community outreach, and leadership.

• Administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia with or without mechanical ventilation for patients with varied risk levels.
• Perform advanced vascular access techniques including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement, intraosseous catheterization, and arterial catheterization.
• Perform advanced diagnostic techniques including ultrasonography and paracentesis.
• Participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans.
• Obtain additional training along guided growth pathways offering roles such as trainer, coordination of care, community outreach, and leadership.

• Industry‑leading compensation ($18.50 – $39.00/hr)
• State‑of‑the‑art equipment and technology in newly built hospitals.
• Generous employee pet discount.
• Referral rewards.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid parental leave—up to 10 weeks at 100% of regular salary.
• Unlimited continuing education opportunities.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Growth potential.
• Groceries delivered weekly, monthly and quarterly contests, quarterly outings, company‑wide retreats, and more.

VEG celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an equal opportunity employer.