Join our team!
Are you interested in beginning a career in veterinary medicine? Are you already working in the veterinary industry and searching for new and exciting possibilities?
We are always looking for new people who are passionate about animal care to join our amazing team.
The WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital is the largest referral center in the Pacific Northwest and features more than 20 specialty service units, ranging from Small and Large Animal Surgery to Exotics, Oncology, and Medical Imaging. We also have a full-service pharmacy and a clinical pathology laboratory.
In addition to the roughly 140 fourth-year veterinary students who are completing their final year of training at WSU, the hospital also provides a training ground for over 50 specialty interns and residents seeking post-DVM certification in a variety of veterinary medical fields. Our team also includes nearly 40 faculty members who provide clinical service, plus more than 40 veterinary technicians, and a team of over 200 support personnel and temporary employees.
Full/Part-time positions
Student jobs
Veterinary technician opportunities
The WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital offers veterinary technicians many unique and exciting opportunities, ranging from working with our exotics team to our experts in our equine and agricultural animal services and our staff committed to providing the highest levels of veterinary care to cats and dogs.
We offer our technicians a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, life insurance, 12 paid holidays per year, sick leave, overtime, and vacation.
Open timeslip positions
As an on call small animal surgery time slip, you will be on call to come in for emergency surgery should they occur. You may be on call for 4 to 7 days at a time during the school year and for longer periods over the summer. If you are called into an emergency surgery, you will be expected to:
- pull all appropriate surgical equipment for the surgery
- set up the OR
- open the OR instrumentation using appropriate aseptic technique
- perform a sterile scrub on the surgery patient
- assist doctors into their gowns
- circulate in the OR getting the surgeons the equipment they require during surgery
- clean up equipment and the OR after surgery is completed
You may also be called in if a surgery runs late during the week (usually at 6pm).
Contact information:
Rachel Kimbrel, Small Animal Surgery Technician Lead
rkimbrel@wsu.edu