There are many ways to find the right veterinary career. A lot of institutions who cares for animals are very much in need of some veterinary assistants, veterinary technicians, and also licensed veterinarians to be a part of their team of experts to help provide care and comfort to animals.
Here are some tips, responsibilities, and qualifications of acquiring a veterinary job on different positions:
Veterinary assistant – this is a person responsible for assisting and performing support work to the veterinarian in helping with the care of animals especially dogs and cats. Its main responsibilities aside from assisting the vet are:
1. Performing daily rounds and report to the veterinarian if there are some that are sick or behaving unusually– this will provide a daily baseline data for registered Veterinarian to follow-up their animal patients on an everyday basis.
2. Provide care of pets in clinic – The veterinarian could not oversee all its patients one by one, that is why the veterinary assistant will come in and do some of the care to animals.
3. Observe animals during treatment and report the animal’s progress to the attending vet – assistants are also there to observe and to call the veterinarian’s attention if there are abnormalities to animals.
4. Contact & assist the veterinarian when needed – Assisting the Vet and contacting him/her when there are some emergencies that requires immediate intervention to animal patients.
5. Actively participate in training and skill development as needed – updating your skills and learning more about your job is quite good in order to provide a better service and care to animals.
6. Skillful at handling animals – being professional and experienced in dealing with animals is also in great need to gain a career as the Vets assistant.
7. Ability to work well independently and as a team - working as a team has also its advantage as well as working alone. In working as a team, this will require you to work hand in hand with the other members of the healthcare team in order to provide quality and efficient service to animals.
8. Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills – Veterinarian’s assistant do not only deal with animals alone, you would also interact with the animals handler or owner. With good skills in communication, there is no doubt about having a problem in establishing rapport to clients and snagging a job as an assistant.
9. Computer literate – there are also some computer work ups required not only to just oversee animals and helping with the Vet, but also doing some encoding and typing in the computer. Literacy with the regards to computer application is much needed for having a job as the vet’s assistant.
10. Minimum 1 year experience working with animals in a clinical setting - recent experience is also one factor and qualifications given by employers. The fact that employers will discuss and train their future employee less will give them much of the benefits and could consume less of their time.
Salary will depend upon the animal institution you are willing to work with and may also vary whether you will work on a full time basis or just for a part time only.
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