ICU Technician Supervisor
Littleton, CO
Summary: Performs the daily nursing and medical patient treatments, assists veterinarians with emergency cases and maintains ICU facility.
Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Wages: $25-30 depending on experience and passing of the VTNE. Please note that there is a $2 shift differential for shifts in the 7pm to 5am timeframe
Managerial:
- Ability to lead and assist managing in a team setting using integrity, accountability, and passion
- Supervise employees to help ensure efficiency and productivity
- Train new hires on the job
- Create and maintain the ICU assistant/technician schedule
- Assist in organizing workflow and ensuring ICU assistant/technician understand their duties
- Mentor ICU assistant/technician productivity while providing constructive feedback and coaching
- Organize and participate in company training
- Coordinates and administers monthly ICU assistant/technician meetings
- Attends all department head meetings
- Bring employee concerns Human Resources and help ensure company morale
- Manages the recruitment process for ICU assistants/technicians. Prepares and post job openings, tracks status of candidates, schedules meeting, in person interviews and working interviews. Coordinates and assists in the preparation and submittal of offer letters.
- Manage departments timecards
- Manage time off requests
- Performance management including scheduling reviews, getting feedback from other team members as well as other departments, and performance discussions
Technical
- Daily treatments and nursing care of all hospitalized patients including isolation.
- Prepares drugs, fluids, CRIs and equipment for daily treatment.
- Assists veterinarians with emergency and critical care case admission, triage and treatment.
- Sets up equipment and room for emergencies and diagnostic procedures.
- Supervises and administers medication/sedation as requested by veterinarians.
- Trains interns, technician students and new employees in ICU/nursing techniques and protocols.
- Assists veterinarians with euthanasia procedures and necropsies.
- Works with veterinarians to implement and enforce biosecurity protocols.
- Client communication as needed or requested.
- Knowledge of stall cleaning protocols (including isolation) according to the biosecurity color assigned to patients and cleaning of those stalls.
- Clean-up, restocking and maintenance of ICU areas.
- Skilled in intravenous catheter placement and maintenance.
- Skilled in venipuncture including giving IV medications without a catheter and blood draws.
- Ability to run bloodwork and recognize abnormalities.
- Accurately fill out and maintain all treatment charts, lab forms and any other forms utilized in patient medical records.
- Computer literate.
25-30
Health/Dental/401k/CE/Discounted Services