Experienced Veterinary Assistant | Full-time
East San Rafael Veterinary Clinic | San Rafael, CA
Compensation is negotiable based on experience and credentials, with an expected starting range of $25 - $29 / hour. The final pay will carefully consider a wide range of factors including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Schedule: 5 day, 8 hour shift with a minimum of 2 Saturdays a month.
About You
Are you an experienced Veterinary Assistant who loves hands-on patient care and wants to continue growing your clinical skills?
East San Rafael Veterinary Clinic is looking for a Veterinary Assistant to join our collaborative team. You'll play an important role in caring for dogs and cats across wellness visits, diagnostic testing, outpatient treatments, surgery, and same-day urgent care.
Our ideal candidate has previous hands-on veterinary experience, strong patient-care skills, and enjoys working in a busy, team-oriented hospital.
What You’ll Do:
- Support patient intake, treatment, and discharge
- Assist with safe animal handling and restraint
- Collect blood samples and assist with laboratory testing
- Administer medications and injections as permitted and under the appropriate supervision
- Assist with surgical preparation and pre- and post-operative patient care for a variety of surgical, dental, and diagnostic procedures, including spays/neuters, orthopedic procedures, and endoscopy.
- Monitor patients during procedures as permitted and under the appropriate supervision
- Prepare medications and treatment areas
- Communicate with clients about estimates, discharge instructions, and patient care
- Accurately enter services and charges into the hospital's client-management system
- Perform other tasks as assigned to support patient care and hospital operations
What You'll Bring
- 2+ years of hands-on Veterinary Assistant experience in a clinical veterinary setting
- Experience with blood collection and medication administration
- Experience supporting surgical and anesthetic procedures
- Strong animal handling and patient-care skills
- Excellent client communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to stay organized and work effectively in a busy veterinary environment
- A desire to continue learning and developing your veterinary skills
You’ll Grow with Us
Here, you can grow your career as best fits you through access to comprehensive learning and skillset programs. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:
- Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
- Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
- A program designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
And, with so many locations nationwide, you can find and move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment. Join us and provide your best care at a clinic that is deeply rooted within its community and bolstered by the resources of Thrive Pet Healthcare.
Benefits - our care in action
Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members’ emotional, physical, professional, and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance, and short- and long- term disability plans, we offer eligible team members:
- Competitive pay
- 401(k) with employer match
- Mental health resources, including easy access to therapy through Lyra Health
- Paid parental leave
- Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
- Subsidized backup childcare and elder care
- Expert advice, support and network discounts for fertility and family planning
- FREE CE courses
- Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
- Student loan support tools and assistance
*Some benefits shown are only for full-time team members who work 30 hours or more per week. Certain Benefits may be subject to waiting periods or length of service requirements.
Why you’ll love working at East San Rafael:
At East San Rafael Veterinary Clinic, we provide high-quality primary care for dogs and cats in San Rafael and the surrounding community. Our services range from wellness exams and vaccinations to diagnostics, including in-house radiology and ultrasound, and surgery. We also offer same-day appointments and urgent care during business hours.
You'll have the opportunity to build on your existing veterinary experience while working alongside a team committed to excellent patient and client care.
About Thrive
Thrive Pet Healthcare creates the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners. Today, its network of 360+ primary, emergency, and specialty hospitals across the U.S. cares for pets of all ages and health needs, while portfolio companies provide tools and technology that help veterinary teams work smarter and deliver better care. Thrive invests in its people-through mentorship, leadership programs, continuing education, and well-being initiatives-so teams can grow and feel supported. For pet owners, convenient solutions such as a mobile app, digital booking, Thrive PlusTM membership, HereFurYou Helpline, an online pharmacy and flexible financial options* make accessing quality care simpler- giving families the peace of mind their pets deserve. Learn more at thrivepetcare.com.
We welcome you to join our story and join where #WeThriveTogether.
