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• Generous compensation package
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Flexible 4-day schedule
• No after-hours or on-call duties
• Generous personal time off
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Company paid short-term disability insurance, with long-term disability optional
• Company paid Professional Liability coverage
• Participation in 401(k) and Roth(k) plans with Company match
• CE Allowances
• Relocation assistance

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About Bellshire Family Vet
We are looking for Nashville’s best and brightest! Our people are not defined by their job descriptions. We’re not looking for “just” veterinarians, vet nurses, and receptionists to join our family. We hire heroes. We hire hand-holders. We hire shoulders to cry on. Skills can be taught, and experience comes with time, but both are meaningless without passion, dedication, a commitment to personal growth, and a desire to be the best you can be. Welcome, dreamers, creative thinkers, and hopeless romantics. We’re seeking you to help lead our team, our clients, and our profession into the next generation of veterinary medicine. Living in North Nashville, East Nashville, Goodlettsville, Hendersonville, Madison, Joelton, or surrounding areas? We would love to welcome you into our family

We are seeking a candidate with great business acumen and strong management skills who enjoys leading and developing a team. The ideal candidate would have 1-2 years’ prior experience as a veterinary practice manager.

​​​​​​​Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 8:00 am-5:30 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-12:30 pm

Pay: $50,000-62,000, dependent upon experience

Position Purpose
Reporting into the Regional Director of Operations, the Practice Manager manages all essential business functions in the veterinary practice and supports the practice teams.  The Practice Manger works in partnership with the Managing Doctor (MDVM) to ensure successful practice operations, high client satisfaction, and to manage practice teams. In collaboration with the MDVM, the Practice Manager is responsible for ensuring profitability of the practice, growing the business and all the while protecting the practice legacy. The Practice Manager must be a strong people manager, possess great business acumen, and enjoy leading and developing a team. Additionally, they should ensure the practice has engaged and productive teams that are driving high-quality patient care and exceptional client service.

Practice Manager Competencies

• Business Acumen: Understanding how a business works, how it makes money and how the strategies and decisions impact financial, operational and sales results.
• Client Centric: Ensuring all practice activities result in the highest level of client satisfaction. Keeping the client, patient, and team members at the center of everything you do.
• Decision Making: The ability to make good decisions, solve problems, and decide on important matters is critical. Managers must be able to efficiently gather and analyze relevant data on different issues, evaluate results, and choose decisively between alternatives. They must be able to effectively implement their decisions, initiate action, and measure results.
• Critical & Strategic Thinking: Strategic thinking and planning are an essential part of financial forecasting, marketing plans, and long-term plans for growth of the practice. Managers must have the ability to identify questions, problems, and arguments relevant to these issues and to use logic and critical reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions or approaches to problems.
• Planning & Priority: The manager has many different job responsibilities, several of which relate to compliance with professional and legal standards and regulations. As a result, managers must be able to organize their work efficiently, set priorities, and establish plans or timetables for achieving goals. They must effectively manage time and workload to meet deadlines.
• Continuous Learning: Best practices in management and legal issues are constantly evolving and managers must keep up with these changes. They must demonstrate curiosity for learning and actively seek out new information, technologies, and methods. They must also seek feedback and other opportunities for self-development.
• Leadership: Leadership is essential for the human resource tasks of a manager. Effective managers influence and motivate others in the workplace. They take initiative in organizing and coordinating the activities of group members and are successful at mobilizing group effort toward a common goal. Additionally, they are responsible for creating and maintaining a positive culture in the practice.

Essential Responsibilities

• Drive revenue for practice growth
• Manage expenses including but not limited to drugs and supplies, labor and facility costs
• Assist in developing and maintaining salary schedules and job evaluations for all employees
• Provide input on an annual budget
• Triage in-house human resource issues and collaborate with the Heartland Human Resources team
• Establish and execute performance evaluations
• Establish internal operating procedures for the administration of the practice to ensure accuracy and completeness of veterinary records and reports, format, and compliance with the accepted hospital practices.
• Partner with the MDVM to ensure all team members are adhering to practice operating procedures that ensure the accuracy and completeness of veterinary records and reports and ensure formats are in compliance with accepted practice guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory agencies and laws. This includes but is not limited to OSHA, DEA, EEOC, ADA, and the Department of Labor. Develop and maintain procedures necessary to meet regulatory requirements.
• Frequently connect with Heartland RDO to ensure the practice and teams have everything they need to ensure high performance client satisfaction.
• Partners with Heartland’s Support Center as needed to grow the business.
• Any other duties deemed necessary.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Ability to work on weekends when needed
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Previous management experience is required
• Previous veterinary technician experience is required
• Ability to lift patients and carry equipment up to 25 pounds; ability to lift patients or carry equipment over 25 pounds with assistance
• Oversee OSHA safety techniques including use of proper PPE
• Computer skills, MS office applications, etc.
• Basic math and ability to calculate medication dosages
• Strong communication skills to ensure patient safety

Benefits Offered

• Paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement benefits (401k, Roth k and matching)
• Bonus incentive
• Career and professional development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• DVM Referral Program

Apply Now!

About Bellshire Family Vet
We are looking for Nashville’s best and brightest! Our people are not defined by their job descriptions. We’re not looking for “just” veterinarians, vet nurses, and receptionists to join our family. We hire heroes. We hire hand-holders. We hire shoulders to cry on. Skills can be taught, and experience comes with time, but both are meaningless without passion, dedication, a commitment to personal growth, and a desire to be the best you can be. Welcome, dreamers, creative thinkers, and hopeless romantics. We’re seeking you to help lead our team, our clients, and our profession into the next generation of veterinary medicine. Living in North Nashville, East Nashville, Goodlettsville, Hendersonville, Madison, Joelton, or surrounding areas? We would love to welcome you into our family.

​​​​​​​Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 8:00 am-5:30 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-12:30 pm

Pay
Non-credentialed technicians: $14-18/hr
Credentialed technicians: $18-22/hr

Position Purpose
The Veterinary Technician assists the veterinarians and lead technicians with patient care and treatment, monitors hospitalized pets, maintains inventory, prepares prescriptions, performs routine in-house laboratory work, educates clients regarding veterinary care and procedures, and assists with surgical procedures.

Veterinary Technician Competencies

• Patience & Compassion: Remaining professional while still making teammates, clients, and patients feel as comfortable as possible regardless of the situation or challenges presented. Responding quickly and calmly to crisis while maintaining a high standard of patient care.
• Collaboration & Teamwork: Carefully coordinating actions with veterinarians and practice team members. Providing feedback appropriately and in a timely manner. Quickly incorporating feedback to ensure positive results. Sharing ideas and being open to other’s ideas.
• Communicating: Conveying instructions to clients and teammates to ensure successful patient care.
• Active Listening: Following the instructions of veterinarians and sometimes patient owners. Picking up the needs of veterinarians and teammates based on prior experiences and feedback.
• Organization Skills: Clear tracking of lab specimens, medications, patient instructions, workflow, and other job-related items while managing multiple patients and clients.
• Client Satisfaction: Ensuring all activities and interactions result in the highest level of client satisfaction.

Essential Responsibilities

• Assist veterinarians in the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery and other tasks as needed.
• Assist veterinarians in outpatient exams by taking histories, vital signs, and weights, as well as providing client education.
• Prepare patients for surgery and monitor vital signs of the patient during surgery.
• Obtain blood, stool, and other samples; perform in-hospital laboratory testing and prepare specimens for outside laboratories.
• Take, develop, and maintain radiographs following proper safety procedures.
• Provide basic animal handling and restrain animals during exams.
• Administer and monitor medications, anesthesia, vaccines, and treatments at the discretion of the veterinarian.
• Clean and straighten exam rooms, treatment, and lab areas; restock exam rooms with supplies. Assist other team members to keep the public areas of the practice clean; clean and maintain all medical equipment.
• Demonstrate warmth, courtesy and professionalism in all interactions with clients; exercise compassion and care in all interactions with patients.
• Communicate with veterinarians and practice team members including client discussions, patient plans, client concerns, etc.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Previous veterinary experience preferred
• Ability to lift patients and carry equipment up to 25 pounds; ability to lift patients or carry equipment over 25 pounds with assistance
• Practice OSHA safety techniques including proper PPE
• Basic math and the ability to calculate medication dosages
• Basic computer skills, familiarity with MS office applications, etc.
• Strong communication skills to ensure patient safety

Benefits Offered

• Paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement benefits (401k, Roth k and matching)
• Bonus incentive
• Career and professional development opportunities
• State licensing fee reimbursement for credentialed technicians
• VTNE support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program

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