💼 Full-Time Position

Veterinary Assistant

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San Roque Pet Hospital
📍 Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Location
Santa Barbara, United States
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Posted
June 07, 2026
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Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Position Overview: The veterinary assistant provides support to the veterinarians and technicians in their daily tasks by cleaning and maintaining equipment, feeding, exercising and grooming patients, preparing and sanitizing surgery suites, restraining and handling patients, and clerical and administrative work. They deliver quality care for all patients and provide exceptional service.
Essential Functions:
  • Provide compassionate care to all patients 

  • Greet patients and their owners as they arrive and show them to an examining room, taking the patient's weight and other vital signs upon arrival 

  • Triage patients, perform physical exams, treatments, and administer medication as directed by the licensed veterinary technicians (LVT's). 

  • Calm and soothe anxious patients 

  • Assist doctors and technicians with the administration of medications or with patient restraint 

  • Perform laboratory tests and take radiographs...