Þscription The Senior Veterinary Technician under minimal supervision, monitors the health and well-being of all animals within multiple facilities, including but not limited to, nonhuman primates, swine, sheep, ferrets, mink, and rabbits, and rodent species. The SVT serves as the floater to provide both small and large animal support in the clinical space. SVT provides surgical support, including pre-, intra- and postoperative care, involving all species. The SVT, upon the advice of the veterinarian, administers or schedules treatments to ill or injured animals or for preventive purposes. Responsibilities Administer medications and treatments to laboratory animals according to a prescribed protocol. Provide care to animals on clinical rounds. Provide surgical support, including pre-, intra- and postoperative care. Conduct standard sterile operating room procedures ensuring all instruments and materials are appropriately prepared and available for use. Assist veterinarian and researchers with surgical procedures and tests. Maintain records on anesthetics, post-operative and clinical rounds according to protocol. Assist with cleaning, organizing, and re-stocking the Operating Room area and all surgical suites. Assist with Operating Room and surgical suite equipment maintenance and operation. Ensure staff and laboratory personnel are compliant with all regulatory agencies. Assist the veterinarians and the training coordinator in developing, organizing, and participate in hands-on and didactic training modules. Coordinate imports and exports of rodent species including live animal and frozen embryos/gametes. The VT will coordinate with the Transgenic Core and external providers for cryopreservation, rederivation, and reconstitution. This includes communicating with donating and receiving institutions to organize animals including facility and health information necessary for animal shipments. Oversee and maintain the rodent sentinel and quarantine programs, this includes ordering sentinel animals and coordinating health testing and submitting animals or samples with accompanying requisitions to the Comparative Pathology Lab. May assist with billing and charges for veterinary services. Perform other related duties as needed. Qualifications 5+ years closely related experience with animals, preferably in a laboratory research setting, or equivalent combination of education, skills, and experience. Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSH Compensation Statement The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $38.78 - $42.27 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits. SEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai Hospital, 877 - Center for Comparative Medicine and Surgery - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine Employer Description Strength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! “About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high