At Patton Veterinary Hospital, we are dedicated to providing exceptional care to the animals in our community. Our team is committed to creating a compassionate and supportive environment for both our patients and staff. We offer opportunities for professional growth and development, ensuring that each team member can thrive in their career. Join us and be a part of a practice that values love, compassion, and dedication.
Competitive Benefits offered:
Training period with individual mentorship, enrollment in a biannual bonus program, health/dental/vision insurances, short-term and long-term disability insurance, supplemental insurance, 401K with employer match, paid holidays, vacation & sick time, uniform allowance, continuing education allowance, employee discounts for personal pets, and potential for student loan repayments, plus more!
Associate Veterinarian:
Patton Veterinary Hospital is an independently owned small animal practice proudly serving South Central Pennsylvania for over 100 years. Husband-and-wife team, Kevin Schmidt and Kathleen Spencer, both proud Ross graduates, lead our hospital with a vision centered on family, community, and environmental responsibility.
Our core values—Compassion, Empathy, Integrity, Teamwork, and Adaptability—guide us in maintaining the trust and care we provide to our clients and patients.
As a member of our team, you will experience professional and personal growth. Our robust mentorship program is designed to enhance your medical decision-making, client communication, and leadership skills through one-on-one guidance and collaboration with our experienced veterinarians. We have cultivated a supportive and progressive culture that fosters success and fulfillment in veterinary medicine.
We are a full-service hospital offering routine preventive care, sick patient management, general surgery, and dental care. Our facility is equipped with modern diagnostics, including digital radiology, ultrasound, a full in-house laboratory, digital dental radiography, cold therapy laser, and surgical laser. As an AAHA-accredited and Certified Feline Friendly Gold Status practice, we are committed to low-stress handling and delivering exceptional patient care and client service.
We are seeking a full-time associate veterinarian to join our team, working 4–5 days per week. We offer a competitive base salary and are open to ProSal. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401(k) with a 4% company match
- CE allowance and PTO for CE
- Reimbursement for licenses and memberships
- Monthly commission bonuses
- Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance
- Pet care discounts
- Uniform allowance
- Vacation and sick leave
Learn more about us and our dedication to advancing veterinary medicine and compassionate care at www.pattonvethospital.com. If Patton Veterinary Hospital feels like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your cover letter and resume to our Hospital Administrator at [email protected].
Technicians:
The veterinary technician is the primary support to the doctors and animals. The technician must be able to respond quickly, calmly, and accurately during times of crisis. The technician must be timely, efficient, knowledgeable, caring and professional at all times, as well as being a team player. The technician must be able to maintain a high level of patient care and communicate well with pet owners and co-workers. Veterinary technicians must have a broad knowledge of animal science, medicine, and husbandry, including a basic knowledge of pharmacology and sufficient mathematical skills to ensure the accurate administration of drug and fluid doses. He or she must be able to successfully restrain animals, and complete clinical laboratory tests. Technicians must also deliver compassionate and low stress care.
Technician Assistant - Condensed job duty
- Assist in patient care by safely restraining animals and administering medications as directed.
- Maintain clean, stocked, and organized exam rooms, treatment areas, and equipment.
- Support technical procedures such as preparing lab samples, assisting with radiographs, and scanning for microchips.
- Ensure accurate documentation of medical records, conversations, and logs.
- Provide compassionate client support during patient admittance, discharge, and phone interactions.
- Uphold hospital cleanliness standards by performing regular disinfecting, refilling supplies, and restocking.
- Stay informed of hospital protocols, including AAHA, Feline Friendly, and Fear Free standards.
- Assist with euthanasia.
- Lift and handle pets up to 50 lbs. and assist with larger animals as required.
Outpatient Technician - Condensed job duty
- Works closely with the veterinarian to keep appointments running as smoothly as possible.
- Works with our Technician Assistant to ensure in-house and external lab work is prepped and run according to protocol.
- Complete Technician appts (lab work/injections/fluids/anal gland expressions etc.)
- Prepare & fill medications and communicate messages to owners.
- Complete exam room template and gather complete history +/- TPR for appointments.
- Be familiar with vaccinations and proper location.
- Initiate diagnostics or procedures as necessary
- Client education
- Assist with euthanasia.
- Invoice charges in the patient record and prepare treatment plans.
Inpatient Technician/Surgery Technician - Condensed job duty
- Coordinate patient transfers.
- Accurately prepare medications and prescriptions for dispensing as directed by the doctor.
- Discharge patients. Instruct clients on the care of patients at home.
- Provide basic life support, including CPR, airway maintenance, and oxygen therapy.
- Able to provide a variety of diagnostics (radiographs, laser, cytology, lab work, etc...)
- Familiar with anesthetic machines, oxygen, vaporizers etc...
- Monitoring of hospitalized and surgical patients.
- Ability to prep and assist surgical procedures and monitor patient recovery.
- Monitor surgical patients by tracking anesthetic depths, heart rates, respiratory rates, temperatures, pulse oximetry, and ECGs during anesthetic procedures.
- Ability to perform dental scaling and polishing along with dental radiographs.
Receptionists/Client Relations Specialists - Condensed Job Duty
Receptionists (who are also called client-relations specialists) are the customer-relations experts in a veterinary practice. They are the clients’ first impression of the practice, on the phone or in person.
- Outgoing individual with exceptional customer service skills.
- Strong organizational skills, excellent telephone and in-person communication skills, and the ability to remain calm under pressure.
- Compassion for animals and their owners and understand the stress that patients and clients endure.
- Display the ability to learn new things and understand and educate clients on hospital services, procedures and vaccine protocols.
- Greeting clients; differentiating routine cases from emergency cases; and scheduling appointments.
- Has a high level of computer proficiency to use the hospital’s database software (Cornerstone), Word, Excel, and email.
- Experience managing multi-line phone systems.
- Ability to enter client, patient, and financial data into the practice management software while also generating invoices and explaining them to clients, processing payments, and managing the retrieval and storage of medical records.
- Ability to manage multiple dashboards, software and apps throughout the day.