Animal Care Attendant

N. Grafton, Massachusetts

20 days ago

Job Description

Overview:

The Henry and Lois Foster Hospital for Small Animals provides 24-hour care for pets 365 days of the year. Since 1979, we have offered high quality medical care, consultation, referral and emergency veterinary services for the care of dogs, cats and exotic pets. The hospital also serves as the primary clinical training environment for the veterinary students, interns and residents.

What You'll Do:

The Animal Care Attendant is responsible for patient care and feeding general housekeeping and maintenance of the clinical space in the Small Animal Hospital. The Animal Care Attendants provide assistance to the Veterinary Technicians in completing daily treatments.

Patient Care
- Provide high quality patient care to include the following:
- Provide patients with food and water as ordered by clinician.
- Assist technicians in completing patient treatments while demonstrating proper animal handling and humane restraint techniques, basic and species-specific husbandry techniques and proper daily care of medical equipment.
- Clean and maintain cages and clinical spaces.
- Clean and stock patient care areas and food room.
- Clean and maintain dog walk areas.
- Provide laundry service.
- Assist with proper disposition of patient remains including preparation of clay paws and proper preparation of a body (including tags) for disposition.
Patient Transport
- Responsibilities include:
- Assist with patient visits.
- Assist with patient drop offs and discharges.
- Transport patients between services within the Hospital.
- Transport deceased patients to mortuary room.
Miscellaneous
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

The schedule for this position will be Thursday, Friday, Saturday 6AM - 6:15PM

What We're Looking For:

Basic Requirements:
Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:

One year of related experience.
The following required knowledge and skills as typically acquired by completing a High School degree or equivalent experience.
Ability to effectively work as a member of a team.
Pride in maintaining assigned areas in a hospital environment.
Basic computer skills including the ability to learn the electronic medical record system.
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. with or without accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications:

Associate's Degree or Vocational/technical training preferred with one or more years of experience.
Knowledge of animal behavior, restraint, feeding and basic sanitation.
Exotic animal handling skills. Exotic animals include birds, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, rodents, special small mammals (such as chinchillas or hedgehogs), reptiles, and amphibians. For Animal Care Attendants working primarily with the Zoological Companion Animal (ZCAM) program, exotic animal handling skills are required.

Salary Range: Minimum $18.00, Midpoint $21.00, Maximum $23.90

Numbers & Facts

Location

N. Grafton, Massachusetts

Skills

Animal Careunmatched
Animal Husbandryunmatched
Computer Skillsunmatched
Electronic Medical Recordsunmatched
Emergency Servicesunmatched
Healthcare Qualityunmatched
Hospitalunmatched
Housekeeping/Cleaningunmatched
Laundryunmatched
Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
Medical Equipmentunmatched
Medical Record Systemunmatched
Patient Careunmatched
Sanitationunmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Technical Trainingunmatched
Veterinary Hospitalunmatched
Veterinary Medicineunmatched

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