Canada West Veterinary Specialists Careers and Employment

About the company

Company size
51 to 200
Industry
Personal Consumer Services
Headquarters
Vancouver
Link
Canada West Veterinary Specialists website

Canada West Veterinary Specialists is a full service veterinary hospital providing specialist veterinary care in Metro Vancouver. Our hospital functions similar to a large full-service human hospital. We accept referrals from family veterinarians based throughout British Columbia, Washington State, Alaska, and the Yukon. We have several departments and a large team of veterinary specialists and are a fully equipped, 17,000 sq. ft. facility (64 slice CT, MRI, 2 radiology suites, 2 ultrasound su...

Our primary goal is to provide optimal medical, surgical, and rehabilitation support and care to our patients, fostering the bonds between owners and their pets and between ourselves and our referring clinicians.

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Veterinary Assistant

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Veterinary Technician

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Vancouver, BC

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Salaries

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Veterinary

Veterinary Assistant

$22.30 per hour

Veterinary Technician

$29.46 per hour

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Rating overview

Rating is calculated based on 14 reviews and is evolving.

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Reviews

Patient Care Assistant in Vancouver, BC

on 9 March 2023

High turnover, high burnout, average pay

It is listed as the responsibility of assistants to train new assistants because the turn over is extremely high. Still new people will be training slightly newer people before probation is even over. There is virtually no support from your supervisor and problems don’t get addressed. Burnout is very high, the pay is not worth the stress. It is cliquey and management picks favourites, you will not...

Vet assistant in emergency department in Vancouver, BC

on 9 January 2023

Not enough pay for the stress

For the emergency department, which is extremely fast paced and tough to begin with, the main problems that arise are all to do with the general attitude and catty-ness of the staff. A few people in question are very condescending towards questions and or minor mistakes, even when just starting out there. Training was lacking so there is no excuse to be rude for asking a general question. Pay coul...

Patient Care Assistant in Vancouver, BC

on 17 November 2022

Awful, don’t work there

Awful place to work. They don’t care about your well being or mental health. Shifts were not split fairly. If you are competent you will spend your time on overnights.

Patient Care Assistant in Vancouver, BC

on 28 July 2022

Not the best job for a vet assistant

Unfriendly staff, management doesn’t care about problems going on, hierarchy between techs and assistants, assistants are basically kennel attendants and cannot do most of the things taught at school, pay is not enough for how we are treated and you cannot even afford to live when working 40+ Hours a week

Technician in Vancouver, BC

on 31 August 2021

Short term for most staff

The hospital, veterinarians and technicians are amazing people. The issue is leadership and HR. There is an extreme lack of professionalism and experience. The general manager operates more as a CEO and is very hands-off day to day. The day-to-day is left to a very inexperienced team. The hospital would operate better if there is a specific trained manager in place.There is a huge turnover of Sta...

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