Veterinary Diagnostic Technician

Veterinary Diagnostic Technician

Cape Cod Veterinary Specialists | Buzzards Bay, MA

Cape Cod Veterinary Specialists is seeking a Veterinary Diagnostic Technician to join our talented, cohesive, and compassionate team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys supporting patient care through accurate diagnostics, careful attention to detail, and strong collaboration with doctors, technicians, and clinical teams.

At CCVS, our Diagnostic Technicians work closely with the Emergency and Critical Care services as part of an integrated clinical care team. This position supports high-quality diagnostics for triage patients, surgical patients, and hospitalized patients while helping ensure timely results, accurate records, and excellent patient care.

About CCVS

Cape Cod Veterinary Specialists is a growing emergency and specialty referral hospital with locations in Buzzards Bay and Dennis, Massachusetts. As the only emergency and specialty referral hospital serving Cape Cod and the Islands, CCVS is committed to providing gold-standard medicine through collaboration, compassion, and advanced clinical care.

Our team includes more than 20 specialists across multiple specialties, including emergency and critical care, internal medicine, surgery, cardiology, dermatology, diagnostic imaging, anesthesiology, and exotic medicine. Education and professional growth are central to who we are, with rotating internships, specialty internships, residency programs, technician training, and continuing education built into our culture.

CCVS is also in an exciting period of growth. Our hospital expansion, planned for completion in 2027, will approximately double our clinical footprint and allow us to add Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Dentistry while expanding existing services. The expansion will also bring advanced diagnostic capabilities, including MRI and fluoroscopy, creating even more opportunity for collaboration, learning, and exceptional patient care.

About This Role

The Veterinary Diagnostic Technician plays an important role in supporting patient care across the hospital. This position works hands-on with laboratory diagnostics, radiology, CT, sample processing, and medical record documentation. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, comfortable in a fast-paced hospital environment, and committed to supporting both patients and clinical teams.

Responsibilities include but are not limitedt to:

• Running in-house laboratory samples for triage, surgery, and hospitalized patients
• Processing samples for outside laboratory submission
• Assisting with blood bank responsibilities
• Recording diagnostic results accurately in the patient medical record
• Helping obtain samples by assisting veterinary technicians and clinical team members
• Setting up and performing patient radiographs
• Submitting radiographs online for interpretation
• Printing radiology reports each morning
• Entering radiology reports into patient records
• Running CT studies on patients
• Cleaning and stocking multiple diagnostic areas within the hospital
• Supporting patient flow and communication between diagnostic areas and clinical teams

Qualifications

• Previous veterinary hospital experience preferred
• Experience with in-house laboratory equipment, radiology, or diagnostic workflows strongly preferred
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate documentation
• Comfort working with emergency, critical care, and specialty patients
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced clinical setting
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• A professional, compassionate, and patient-focused approach
• Willingness to learn and grow within a collaborative specialty and emergency hospital environment

Schedule and Compensation

• This is a full time position.
• The schedule includes day and swing shifts, with weekend shifts and a holiday rotation.
• Pay Range: $20-$24/hour

Compensation is based on experience, expertise, credentials, schedule, and overall alignment with the role. Most new hires can expect an offer between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

Benefits for Full-Time Team Members

Cape Cod Veterinary Specialists offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including:

• Medical insurance plans with multiple options, beginning the first of the month following date of hire
• Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account options
• United Healthcare dental insurance, including a 100% paid premium option for team members
• United Healthcare vision insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability options
• 401(k) with 100% company match up to 3% and 50% company match up to 5%, eligible after 6 months of employment
• Complimentary $15,000 life insurance policy, with options to purchase additional voluntary benefits for self or family
• Trupanion pet insurance with company-paid premiums for two team member pets
• Generous continuing education program, including local and national conferences, paid CE days, free online courses, VetBloom courses, and in-house CE
• VTS training track, including expense reimbursement, paid CE days, doctor mentors, rate review, and bonus upon completion
• Uniforms provided at no cost to team members
• Incentivized nurse training program
• Team member discounts for pet care
• Weekly grocery delivery to the hospital for meals and snacks
• Paid PTO and paid holidays
• On-site veterinary social worker available to support employees and clients with stress management, compassion fatigue, work-life balance, and conflict resolution
• Company-sponsored Employee Assistance Program

Why Join CCVS?

At CCVS, you will be part of a hospital that values clinical excellence, accountability, trust, respect, professionalism, innovation, collaboration, and compassion. Our Diagnostic Technicians are essential to the way we care for patients, support doctors and nurses, and deliver timely, accurate diagnostic information.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys the technical side of veterinary medicine, thrives in a team-based environment, and wants to grow with a hospital that is expanding its services, technology, and clinical impact.

Cape Cod Veterinary Specialists is an equal opportunity employer.