Emergency Veterinary Technician

Description

 We are looking for Emergency Technicians for our Daytime, Mid-shift and Overnight shifts. 


As a Pinnacle ER Veterinary Nurse, you will be expected to:   

• Treat each patient and owner with the highest level of compassion & care.

• Perform basic to ICU level nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.

• Use understanding of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to accurately triage incoming patients.

• Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand potential adverse effects of medications.

• Set-up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy including constant rate infusions and blood transfusion therapy.

• Contribute to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care.

• Participate in giving and receiving patient rounds to ensure continuity of care.

• Be trained to properly perform all aspects of CPR.

• Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including in-house & point-of-care tests and diagnostic imaging.

• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and/or maintaining urinary catheters, nasoenteral tubes, nasal oxygen tubes, chest and abdominal tubes.

• Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages and other oxygen administration techniques.  

The positive culture at Pinnacle Veterinary Specialists:

• Recognizes and rewards nurses as critical members of our team. 
• We distributed $60,000 in bonuses to our nursing staff in 2024 and over $ 77,000 in 2025!
• Value freedom of autonomy for staff to make on the ground decisions without layers of management.
• Work in a smaller, collaborative environment that feels more like a family than just a place to work. 
• Provide best in class Independence Blue Cross Health PPO insurance with NO deductible and free access to mental health care for $80.00 per pay period.
• Our team of emergency and critical care doctors were selected for their medical skills but equally important for being kind and easy to work with. Pinnacle recognizes the key role that nurses play in the hospital. They are invaluable members of the team and should be treated as such. At Pinnacle, these words are put into action.
•  Our hospital is a community of people who find joy in working together and learning from each other. Our young group of leaders have families and believe in working to live rather than living to work. We are looking for staff members who are able to see the world and the hospital beyond themselves. They are the people at work who are easy to get along with, smile a lot, and are always willing to help. Our team embraces this view of a hospital community.

Our brand-new facility opened in August 2021 and houses emergency/critical care, internal medicine, neurology, surgery, radiology and cardiology. We have digital radiography, full in house Idexx lab systems, Siemens blood gas analyzer, a GE 16 Slice CT scanner and a mobile MRI unit.

• PVS is located at 600 Evergreen Drive in Glen Mills, PA which is a southern suburb of Philadelphia. We are located across from the Costco in Glen Mills and near the Brinton Lake Shopping complex allowing easy access to restaurants and shopping. A Costco membership is an employee benefit including discounted gas at the Costco gas station.

Benefits of working for Pinnacle include:

• Generous hourly wage reflective of your skillset and contribution to the hospital
• Shift differential for overnights and weekends ($2.50/hour Mon-Thurs, $4.00/hr Fri-Sun)
• Flexible scheduling
• Paid time off
• Pet care discount  
•  Independence Blue Cross medical insurance that includes Penn Medicine telehealth visits, tele-mental health support, and the largest health network in greater Philadelphia
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) program with 2% company match
• Scrub allowance
• Costco membership (inexpensive gas is right across from our hospital!)
• In house CE and continuing education stipend
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development assistance
• Employee assistance program

Schedule: To be determined at time of interview.  

• 12 hour shift

 Daytime, Mid-shift and Overnight shifts available ;) 

Requirements

 The Ideal Candidate :

• Has a CVT or 2+ years’ experience in a comparable emergency and/or specialty facility. Recent CVT graduates will be considered.
• Is kind, supportive of their team, and has a strong work ethic.
• Has a desire to grow and develop their nursing skillset.

Pinnacle Veterinary Technicians Working requirements 

• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and electronic) with the team and with customers
•  Fine motor skills adequate for utilizing hospital equipment necessary daily such as syringes, electric clippers, computers, surgery instruments, monitors, diagnostic equipment, etc.
• Ability to stand for prolonged hours, kneel, work on the floor as well as ability to lift up to 50 lbs. on own and able to support up to 80 lbs. with assistance.

If you would like to learn more this position, please reach out to acarr@pinnacle.vet