| Join Best Friends and turn your career into a labor of love. The benefits package is one of the best! Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability, Child Care reimbursement, Pet Sitting reimbursement, Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, PTO, Paid Holidays, Employee Assistance Program, 401k and Staff Discounts. Position Summary: This role will support the Veterinary Services Manager by ensuring that all animals received at the Pet Adoption Center are prepared for adoption in a timely manner by performing intake, vaccines, medical exams, health certificates and spay neuter surgeries. This position is also responsible along with the center vet technician for coordinating timely and accurate intake and medical record keeping and communication regarding the cats and dogs at the adoption center. Essential Primary Duties: - Work with Veterinarian Services Manager to develop and execute shelter medicine plan focusing on and herd population health management for shelter medicine, status reports, budgets and comprehensive documentation as it relates to the Los Angeles programs.
- Receive all records (paper files and completed Shelter Luv “new animal” data entered) for new animals from Intake team and ensure essential information is entered into Shelter Luv.
- Follow “intake” and “needs exam” procedures fully ensuring all previous spay and neuter, confirmed spay and neuter, procedures, executed vaccines and observation during exams are entered into Shelter Luv software.
- Coordinate pre-adoption medical needs with clinic.
- Receive and prioritize caregivers’ observations (CGOs).
- Coordinate the scheduling of medical appointments for Center and foster care with the Foster Care Coordinator and Senior Veterinarian.
- Enter all data (medical and other) into Shelter Luv.
- Provide training and support for the foster homes acquired via the Foster Care program.
- Alternate overnight on call shifts with other veterinarians (approximately 2 weeks per month).
- Health Certificates for interstate travel for the transport program.
- Oversee the shelter medicine for the center animals focusing on herd medicine. Including maintaining the caregiver medication logs and refills.
- Schedule and track follow-up clinic appointments for animals at the center.
- Work within budgets as directed by executive team, plan and coordinate supplies, equipment, and facility needs, oversee the maintenance and ordering of an appropriate inventory of shelter medicine supplies.
- Working with the Outreach team and Foster Care Coordinator on foster vaccines, exams, scheduling spay and neuter, etc.
Additional Duties: - Perform surgical sterilizations on dogs and cats as assigned.
- Perform other elective surgeries and dentals as needed by the shelter population.
- Examine animals pre-op as assigned.
- Examine animals post-op as necessary to ensure appropriate healing.
- Continue research and maintenance of safe and efficacious medical protocol regarding anesthesia and surgery along with the other staff veterinarians.
- Other duties as assigned by Senior Veterinarian or Executive Director.
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