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Veterinary Nurse Needed!

Happy Tails Veterinary Hospital is looking for a nurse to join our team! We are an AAHA accredited hospital close to Down Park in Pasadena, MD. We are dedicated to providing gold star care to our patients, nurturing our employees, and contributing to our local community. We look forward to providing you with the environment, equipment, and training needed to excel in the veterinary field and the skills to practice the medicine that makes you excited. We are looking for candidates who are seeking a culture that focuses on your personal and professional growth.

We want to give back to YOU by…

• Scheduling you with 5-day work weeks, with one Saturday a month. Our weekday hours are from 8am to 5pm Monday through Thursday, Friday 8am to 3pm, and our Saturday hours are from 8am to 12pm. NO OVERNIGHTS, NO ON-CALL SHIFTS. Your schedule is made at least 3 months in advance; we are committed to maintaining your work-life balance!
• Providing Medical Care stipends which allows you to have the health insurance plan of your choice
• Providing a Simple IRA retirement plan with matched employer contribution up to 3% per paycheck
• Providing paid vacation time and paid sick leave
• Giving all major holidays OFF including long holiday weekends
• Providing Continued Education opportunities including weekend intensives and online courses paid for by the hospital
• Reimbursement of scrubs purchases
• Reimbursement of license purchase and renewals
• Offering a spacious efficiency apartment, recently renovated, within 5 minutes from the hospital (animals welcome) for one year FREE!

Our ideal candidate…

• Loves educating clients on how to best care for their pets and wants to make clients feel like a part of their pet’s health journey.
• Is passionate about changing the hospital for the better and is excited to share ideas on how to make the hospital improve and grow.
• Is open to work within a hospital practicing Fear Free techniques.
• Is excited to work within a hospital providing exotic and pocket pet care, complicated surgeries and dentals, behavioral health, and nutritional counseling.
• Is dedicated to maintaining AAHA compliant standards of client and patient care, cleanliness, record keeping, and maintaining OSHA compliant standards of safety.
• Is a team player who works well with doctors, receptionists, and clients.
• Is a multi-tasker and can handle multiple projects and appointments at a time.

About Happy Tails Veterinary Hospital

We are an AAHA accredited integrative health hospital, founded in 2014 by Dr. Vera Calpeno. We are dedicated to providing gold star care to our patients, nurturing our employees, and contributing to our local community. We look forward to providing you with the environment needed to excel in the veterinary field and the skills to practice the medicine that makes you excited! Our hospital provides the following services: -Routine and complicated surgeries -Daytime Emergency Care -Reptilian, Amphibian, Exotic, and Pocket Pet Care -Acupuncture and Therapy Laser treatments -Holistic, herbal, and Chinese medicine -Routine Wellness care -Full in house lab equipment for blood and urine -Radiography and microscopic cytology We are constantly finding more ways to treat our patients, and want to innovate our hospital with the help of our team. We believe that nothing is more important than making a safe, positive environment for our staff, our clients, and of course our patients! We encourage you to visit our website so you can meet the team and see everything Happy Tails can offer you!

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