Supports emergency veterinary doctors by triaging patients, gathering and relaying histories, communicating estimates and discharge information, preparing treatment sheets, filling prescriptions, managing calls and administrative tasks, entering charges, and coordinating reports. The assistant also helps maintain patient comfort, treatment-floor cleanliness, hospital workflow, and doctor schedules. The role works four 10-hour evening shifts per week and requires prior experience as a doctor's assistant.
VCA Animal Specialty Group (ASG) is seeking an experienced Doctor’s Assistant (DA) for our ER dept. ASG is located in Los Angeles, Glendale adjacent.Primary skills required for this position:
- Triage patients, including STAT calls as needed
- Communicate with clients to obtain histories, explain estimates, discharges and euthanasia paperwork
- Create estimates and present to clients
- Thoroughly relay patient histories to doctors and technicians
- Help maintain the flow of the doctor's schedules & triages
- Create treatment sheets in Smart Flow per doctor's instructions
- Fill prescriptions to go home with clients
- Answer calls, and send and receive emails/text messages
- Manage daily tasks (lab & radiology reports, filing, call backs/updates, enter charges, export Smart Flow discharges into Woofware, etc.)
- Ensure patients are clean and comfortable
- Help clean and maintain the overall treatment floor and hospital
- Shifts: 10-hours, 4 days/week
- Shift Hours: 4pm - 230am
- Competitive compensation from $23-$28
- Hands on patient handing opportunities once trained
- Complete benefits package, including medical/dental/vision insurance (after 30 days of employment)
- Accrued vacation and sick time
- Paid holidays *
- 401k (with company matching)
- Employee pet discounts
- Health and wellness resources
- and much more!
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Benefits: We offer competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and paid vacation/sick days, 401(k), generous employee pet discounts and more!The information in this position description indicates the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, change in personnel, workload, or technical development).We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans / Disabled. For a complete EEO statement please see our career page at vcacareers.com.VCA Animal Hospitals Los Angeles, California, USA Office
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