BluePearl Specialty + Emergency Pet Hospital is hiring Emergency Veterinary Assistants to join our team of professionals! We are seeking Veterinary Assistants to share their skills and compassion in our state-of-the-art facility located in beautiful Monterey, on the Central Coast of California. Our specialty practice is family-oriented, with a top-notch staff and experiences significant growth every year. We are looking for hard-working, motivated, enthusiastic, and friendly, team-players that can multitask and be flexible. Experience at a veterinary clinic is definitely a plus, but we will train the right person without experience. Applicants must have compassion for owners and their pets since we strive as a business to provide excellent customer service. **Responsibilities include** : rooming patients, obtaining TPR’s, patient restraint, running blood work in our in-house lab, entering in patients for digital radiographs, cleaning and stocking the surgical suite, sterilizing surgical packs, restocking treatment areas, general hospital maintenance, medical charting. There will be an opportunity to develop and utilize skills such as; blood draws, catheter placement, pharmacology, surgical assisting, and anesthetic monitoring for basic procedures. **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 technicians 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. + In order 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: + Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options. + Paid parental leave as well as employer provided short-term and long-term disability. + Flexible work schedules. + Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans. + A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment. + We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets. **If you have been looking for a way to advance your career, apply today!** 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 all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual or affectional preference, 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.