Veterinary Assistant wanted – Experience preferred

Newer urban-centered, community-minded small animal veterinary hospital seeks a highly motivated person to work 25-35 hours per week. We all work together to provide superior care for our patients and clients.

Your strengths include:
- Self confidence

- Experience working with people and a sense of caring toward animals
- Good computer skills

- Ability to handle multiple unrelated tasks simultaneously and quickly and a willingness to help out wherever needed

- Ability to follow instructions and tasks to completion with accuracy and promptness and minimal supervision

- You enjoy working independently on projects during slow times

- A commitment to maintaining a clean and organized hospital

Job Requirements/Skills/Physical Demands:

- Greet clients, admit patients and boarders

- Assist doctor and technicians with the care and treatment of patients

- Feed, handle, and clean up after boarding animals and veterinary patients

- Set up surgery and treatment areas and clean up after procedures; Clean and sterilize instruments and equipment

- Help maintain inventories of medical supplies and pet foods
- Ability to work on feet all day
- Ability to lift 40 pounds

- Hours include some evenings and occasional weekend shifts

The compensation:
Flexible work schedule
Excellent pet-care benefits
Paid-time-off earned for volunteer and community service
Health insurance allowance after 6 months
Paid vacation/sick and holidays after 12 months
Continuing education reimbursement

We are seeking mature, motivated people with good communication skills and an interest in contributing to the community. Creativity and a positive outlook are valued. Previous veterinary experience is appreciated. Experience with animals is required.
Hours are negotiable.
* Smokers need not apply *

Please reply with resume and cover letter.

Our Staff

Our team members work hard to serve your needs and those of your pets. We aim to provide the highest quality medical and surgical care, friendly and compassionate service, and a clean and inviting atmosphere. To contribute successfully to our efforts, team members must be willing and able to offer ideas and suggestions, accept tasks and responsibilities beyond their regular job descriptions and maintain a high degree of self-respect, emotional maturity and personal accountability. In return, we strive to offer our team members regular continuing education opportunities, team-building opportunities and a respectful and encouraging environment in which to work.

NATALIE M. WARREN, DVM

Dr. Warren received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Colorado State University in 1999. After vet school, she left her beloved Rocky Mountains for western Washington to be closer to family. She has since expanded her veterinary medical expertise by working in a variety of settings including rural large-animal practice, suburban small-animal hospitals and urban emergency centers. She has also enjoyed providing relief veterinary service to area animal shelters.

Continuing education and organized veterinary medicine are a passion for Dr. Warren, and she enjoys many opportunities to contribute to the veterinary community. She sits on the Executive Board for the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association, is a member of several WSVMA committees, and is the founder and President of the Pierce County Veterinary Society.

In her free time, Dr. Warren enjoys bicycling, skiing, gardening, and tearing up the streets on her Ducati motorcycle. She spends quieter times with her horse, her spotted dog and two striped cats in their North Tacoma home.

KEISHA REIS, Licensed Veterinary Technician

Keisha is a California native, but moved up to Washington in 2000. She enjoys the great northwest outdoors, and can be found out in it gardening, kayaking, hiking and backpacking. She graduated from Pierce College with an Associate of Applied Science in Veterinary Technology, and has recently received her Bachelors of Applied Science in Veterinary Technology from St. Petersburg College through their distance learning program. She shares her house with her husband and a very spoiled brown tabby named Amir who likes to dress up in coats and scarves, and Circe, her very cute dilute calico.

CARLA PROVENZANO, Technician

Carla hails from Atlanta, GA, where she graduated magna cum laude with a BS in zoology from Georgia State University. As her fiance is in the military, Carla is well-traveled, having recently spent six months living in Germany. Fiji, Belize, Costa Rica, Jamaica, the Carribean Islands and Mexico are among her other favorite destinations. She moved to Tacoma this past July, and we feel very fortunate to have her here. One drawback to her 'jetsetting lifestyle' is that it limits her ability to own many pets although she does have a guinea pig named Penelope. In her off time, Carla keeps busy planning her wedding, which will take place in Italy this summer.

TIFFANY ADAMS, Receptionist

Tiffany comes to us from Puyallup, where she shares her home with a veritable menagerie: her cockatoo, Chewy; her horse, Nacho; her dog, Whisky; and her ferret, The Little Girl. Since she manages her own brood so well, she was a natural fit to supervise our Humane Society kitties here at Met Vet, a job she handles superbly. She makes sure all their needs are met, and facilitates all of the adoptions.

A true northwesterner, Tiffany is happiest when she's able to engage in outdoor activities. Camping, swimming, and horseback riding are among her favorites.