RVT, ICU
Location: Scarborough, ON
Employment type: Full-time
Job Status: Existing
Compensation: $30.00 to $40.00 per hour, depending on experience and skills
Bonus Eligible: Yes
What You Will Do
- Advanced Clinical Care & Technical Procedures: Place and manage IV catheters, urinary catheters, nasogastric tubes, and nasal oxygen cannulas. Maintain specialized devices, including E-tubes, chest tubes, closed-suction drains, and wound diffusion catheters.
- Therapeutics & Pain Management: Set up, monitor, and adjust IV fluid therapy, constant rate infusions (CRIs), and multimodal pain management plans while safely administering a wide range of emergency medications and treatments.
- Critical Patient Monitoring & Assessment: Perform close, continuous patient assessments to recognize subtle clinical changes across complex cases (such as GDVs, blocked cats, sepsis, severe trauma, parvo, and respiratory distress) and take prompt, proactive action.
- Emergency & Surgical Support: Support anesthesia and urgent interventions for emergency procedures, providing attentive perioperative and post-operative critical care monitoring.
- Team Collaboration & Communication: Work collaboratively with our emergency clinicians, specialty teams, and fellow technicians to ensure seamless communication, timely medical interventions, and outstanding patient outcomes.
Schedule: Our ICU technicians follow a rotating schedule of four days on and five days off, consisting of two 12-hour day shifts followed by two 12-hour night shifts. This rotation includes weekends and holidays.
What You Bring
- Graduation from an accredited Veterinary Technician (RVT) or Animal Health Technician (AHT) program, with current registration (or eligibility for registration) in good standing with your provincial veterinary association.
- Prior experience in an emergency, ICU, or specialty referral hospital is a strong asset, but those enthusiastic candidates looking to grow into specialty care are also welcome!
- Strong clinical judgment, keen attention to detail, and the ability to stay organized, prioritize tasks, and remain composed in a fast-paced ICU environment.
- Compassionate Approach to delivering patient-centred care and supporting pet parents with empathy and understanding during stressful medical situations.
- Collaborative team-first mindset, with strong interpersonal and communication skills and a dedication to building supportive, respectful relationships across all hospital departments.
- Growth & curiosity: commitment to lifelong learning, evidence-based medicine, and taking advantage of ongoing professional development and CE opportunities.
What We Can Offer You
- We offer a competitive starting wage of $30 per hour , with consideration given to experience, skill set, and scope of practice. Additional premiums apply for weekend and overnight shifts.
- Paid time off for continuing education, vacation, sick days, and personal wellness days.
- Annual CE Allowance.
- Benefits: Minimum 24 hours per week for eligibility with flexible options.
- Paid annual certification memberships and uniform allowance.
- Mental health support tools and resources: Virtual health care (telemedicine), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and digital wellness tools supporting mindfulness, sleep, and physical fitness.
- Various career development pathways .
- Generous personal pet care discounts and lifestyle perks, including exclusive shopping discounts and access to a wellness app.
Our hospital:
Toronto Veterinary Emergency Hospital (TVEH) is a robust, collaborative 24/7 emergency and specialty referral centre dedicated to caring for pets and families across our community. Working within our modern, well-equipped hospital, you'll find the advanced tools and quiet comfort needed to support critically ill patients at every stage of their healing journey. You will be part of a close-knit, compassionate, interdisciplinary team of board-certified specialists across Critical Care, Surgery, Oncology, Internal Medicine, Anesthesia, and Diagnostic Imaging. Above all, we take genuine pride in nurturing a kind, encouraging environment where our Associates feel valued, heard, and supported in doing the work they love.
Our Story
VCA Canada is a network of veterinary hospitals, with our head office in Calgary, Alberta, committed to positively impacting pets, people, and local communi
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