Veterinary Kennel Technician

Job duties include but are not limited to :

The kennel tech is responsible for the care feeding medicating and cleaning of our patients in hospital and our clients in the boarding facility. This job involves cleaning laundry bathing feeding walking dogs and medicating. You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies helping with post-operative patients assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams. You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications special foods appetite behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care. You will be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Qualifications :

We are looking for someone with :

• Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods.
• Proper methods of animal restraint.
• Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment with skill and efficiency.
• Perform moderately heavy physical labor (large dogs bags of litter pet foods etc).
• Ability to sympathetically and patiently attend to sick scared and injured animals.
• Ability to learn to administer medications and to recognize abnormal conditions.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of the job.
• Weekend / holiday availability required

Additional Information :

We offer our staff :

Pay Range :  $11.15 / hr

We offer our staff :

For additional details including our full equal opportunity statement texting / outreach communication authorization physical requirements of the job and more please visit  Work :

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Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Veterinary Experience,Animal Care,Communication skills,Veterinary Assistant,Veterinary Technician Experience,Vital Signs Experience,Animal Handling,Animal Restraint,Experience Administering Injections,Catheterization,Medication Administration,Venipuncture Experience

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1