Description

BluePearl Pet Hospital is seeking a Veterinary Technician Trainer to support our Manhattan market, providing hands-on clinical training and development across our Midtown and Downtown hospitals. This role requires an active Veterinary Technician certification from an AVMA accredited program.

Pay: $34.60 - $51.30 / hour

This pay band is dependent on experience and advancement through our competency assessment tool. Candidates with VTS credentialing are eligible for compensation commensurate with experience.

As a Veterinary Technician Trainer with BluePearl, you can:

• Be part of a dynamic, energized network of hospitals committed to providing the highest standard of patient care.
• Collaborate with a team of Training Coordinators to develop innovative training programs while coaching associates at every career stage, from new hires to current and experienced associates.
• Align with the local teams and your line manager to build a flexible schedule that supports market training needs, including the potential for limited remote work.
• Support a variety of specialties and locations across the market.
• Impact the future of the profession by supporting veterinary technician students, veterinary students, interns, and residents.
• Lead the implementation of new, company-wide training programs.
• Elevate the level of patient care through education in the hospitals within the market.
• Maintain your clinical skills and build new ones by training side-by-side with your teams.
• Collaborate with local medical directors, practice managers, and nursing leaders to identify training needs, build training plans, and execute training events like hands-on skills wet labs, simulator training, and virtual or live didactic lecture-based CE.
• Support United In Care by designing and delivering CE for partner hospitals and the local referring community.
• Partner with the Divisional Nursing Partner, Director of Medical Quality, and local medical leadership to implement BluePearl's medical quality guidelines and standards into hospital ways of working, training curriculums, and hospital culture.
• Drive your own development through robust internal CE and opportunities unique to training coordinators.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Maintain RVT/LVT/CVT in accordance with state laws.
• High School Diploma required
• Possession of Vet Technician skill level III or greater required. Previous experience as a BluePearl Veterinary Technician (skill level IV or VTS) is preferred .
• Demonstrated capacity to deliver effective training required. Previous supervisory capacity or background in education preferred.

Why BluePearl?

• 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 associates 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 their career.
• 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 BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.

We value your health and well-being as an associate by providing you with the following:

• 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 BluePearl store credit.
• Referral Bonus Program
• State licensure reimbursements
• VTNE reimbursements
• Additional VTS benefits - pursuing & established VTS technicians.

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.

BluePearl 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.