Animal Health Technician - DLAM

Description

Reporting to the Animal Care Supervisor I, the Animal

Health Technician, will provide a wide variety of paraveterinary health care

duties that are directly related to all research conducted at UCLA. Major

duties include conditioning & quarantine, campus health programs, clinical

management, procedures training, and laboratory specimen handling.

Salary Range : $24.28 - $29.88 Hourly

Qualifications

Required : Ability

to recognize abnormalities in behavior of laboratory animals and signs

that indicate disease.

Ability

to effectively communicate with faculty and staff who have varying degrees

of veterinary medical training.

Ability

to lift animals up to 50 pounds.

Skill

in administering oral (including gavage) and parenteral (ID, SQ, IM, IP)

medications including fluids to different species.

Skill

in handling and restraining laboratory animals.

Skill

in the collection of animal body fluids, feces and urine. And knowledge in

sample submission

Skill

in writing health reports and other records with legible handwriting, or

using computer systems

Skill

in medical procedures including treatment administration and follow up,

post operative care, and bandaging.

Skill

in preparing and sterilizing instrument packs.

Skill

in preparing animals for surgery and necropsy.

Skill

in cleaning laboratory, surgery and necropsy rooms.

Ability

to euthanize animals using CO2 chambers. Knowledge of appropriate disposal

of the animals, including bio-hazardous animals.

Skill

in teaching and assess proficiency of personnel conducting biomedical

procedures including animal handling, restraint, oral and parenteral

administration of substances, specimen collection, aseptic technique,

and / or surgery

Ability

to follow safety procedures.

Familiar

with local, state, and federal regulations governing Animal Research : The

Animal Welfare Act ( 9 CFR, Sub.Ch A), Good Laboratory Practice for

NonclinicalLaboratory Studies ( 21 CFR Part 58), The Guide 8th Ed., and

Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

Knowledge

of and ability to accurately follow SOPs.

Knowledge

of the institutional environmental enrichment program(s), and skills to

implement and assess it.

Knowledge

of proper documentation practices with the skills to perform this task.

Preferred : Bachelor

in science or RVT + 1 years of experience in laboratory animals. Or, High

school diploma + ALAT AALAS Certification + 3 years of experience in

laboratory animals.

Ability

to assist in class preparation and delivery.