Are you a future leader of the veterinary industry who wants to make a life-changing impact on your team's careers? Do you love building successful teams who provide premier patient care and customer experience?

If this is you, then we have an existing opportunity to be a leader of a dynamic team of veterinary nursing professionals within a working environment that promotes career development and cutting-edge medicine. Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills with a variety of personality and learning styles, time management, and organizational skills.

Pay: $40.75 - $63.70 / hour
This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience.

A Veterinary Technician Manager will:

• Uphold the Mars 5 principles and Blue Pearl’s vision and mission.
  
• Demonstrate proficiency as a Veterinary Technician or Advanced Patient Care Associate with their appropriate department.
  
• Creates effective working relationships with hospital leadership to ensure standards of care are understood, effectively communicated, and skill development within your team.
  
• Serves as a subject-matter expert and resource to Technicians and Assistance regarding daily operations, patient care, and skill development.
  

• Partners with the supervisors and the regional nursing trainer to help set up constructive, engaging, and forward-thinking training of the nursing staff.
  
• Plays an interactive role within hospital leadership to run the day-to-day operations of their nursing team.
  
• Serves as a mentor to staff by demonstrating positive work habits, effective clinical skills and business knowledge.
  
• Identifies conflicts in the workplace and seeks assistance in resolutions in order to create effective working relationships.
  
• Coach staff to create a culture of impressive performance and high productivity through pride in the vision of our work.
  

• Clearly communicates with team members to ensure consistency with understanding innovative ideas, changes in protocols, policies and impending changes that follow the vision of the company.
  
• Build positive relationships across the hospital and administration to facilitate an environment of teamwork.
  
• Implement and train process improvement initiatives.
  
• Document performance-related issues, assesses team members during quarterly conversations, annual performance reviews, and provides hospital leadership with recommendations related to performance management and discipline.
  
• Other jobs duties as assigned.
  

Why Blue Pearl?

• Our passion is pets. We offer Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
  
• We encourage you to grow with us. Our technicians are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience. We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops. As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in his/her career.
  
• In order to transform and lead the industry through innovative quality medicine and care, we understand the importance of continuous learning. We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own Blue Pearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.
  

• A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment.
  
• Lyra; Access to 12 mental health care sessions annually at no charge to you, and other well-being resources through Lyra- an online mental health support platform
  

• We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets.
  

Our Continuing Education Plan includes $500/year reimbursement for CVT and $750/year for VTS. The Continuing Education allowance can roll over up to $1,500 for CVT and VTS associates. Non-Credentialed, full-time Paraprofessionals are eligible for an annual CE stipend of $150. Full-time CVT associates also receive 8 hours of CE paid hours each year. Full-time VTS associates receive 12 hours of CE paid each year. Paid CE hours can be carried over year to year up to a maximum of 24 hours. Newly hired associates will receive a pro-rated amount of any CE benefit for which they are eligible.

• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  
• Parental Leave Benefits
  
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options
  
• Paid Time Off and Floating Holiday Plans
  
• Health Savings Account
  
• Flexible Savings Account
  
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
  
• Annual Scrub Allowance: full-time associates receive $200/year in Blue Pearl store credit.
  
• Referral Bonus Program
  
• State licensure reimbursements
  
• VTNE reimbursements
  
• Additional VTS benefits – pursuing & established VTS technicians.
  

Blue Pearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and you will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.