Animal Care Attendant Job Description
Animal care attendant
provides animal husbandry and care including cleaning, feeding, and watering animals on a daily basis.
Animal Care Attendant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective animal care attendant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included animal care attendant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Handling and restraint of animals (experience preferred)
Feeds and waters animals according to schedules and instructions
Handles and transports animals and bedding material
Maintains bulk feed and bedding supplies necessary for daily use
Cleans and maintains multiple support areas (storage rooms, restrooms, breakrooms, procedure labs) main hallways
Maintain requried attendance level and adherence to set work schedule in accordance with required staffing levels in order to ensure that assigned duties are completed
Perform housekeeping duties and laundry
Conducts training activities in cagewash areas
Coordinates record maintenance
Conducts routine inspection of cagewash facilities, equipment and materials to determine degree to which established levels of materials are available, sanitation levels are being met/exceeded, and animal facilty support is adequate
Animal Care Attendant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Animal Care Attendant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: G.E.D
Education for Animal Care Attendant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the animal care attendant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Associates, Technical, Animal Care, Animal Behavior, Education, Zoology, Psychology, Science, Human Resources, Veterinary Technology
Skills for Animal Care Attendant
Desired skills for animal care attendant include:
Animal behavior
Feeding and basic sanitation
Restraint
Desired experience for animal care attendant includes:
Participate in providing on-the-job training and mentorship of Animal Care Attendants and Animal Care Trainees
Oversees consistent practice of general safety policies and procedures and MSDS guidelines
Performs all duties of an Animal Care Attendant
Provide animal husbandry and care including cleaning, feeding, and watering animals on a daily basis
Operate equipment such as cage and rack washers, autoclaves
Technical Experience such as gavaging, IP and other procedures preferred
Animal Care Attendant Examples
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Animal Care Attendant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an animal care attendant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for animal care attendant
- Must be a team player willing to learn new techniques and treatments and accept change
- May assist Veterinary Technicians and Veterinarians as assigned by Manager
- Coordinates and/or performs preventative maintenance on all cagewash machinery, equipment and materials
- Makes repairs as necessary, maintain organization and up-keep of physical environment in areas of responsibility
- Generates and submits internal reports in required formats and timeframes, including autoclave cycles, tunnel and rack washer operations and sanitation
- Reports to management on operations-related issues
- Participate in implementation and compliance of site-specific standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- May provide direction and job assignments to several Animal Care Attendants
- Unpacking shipments and stocking products
- Playing with dogs in our indoor dog park
Qualifications for animal care attendant
- A CVT is not required and industry experience is a plus!
- Love Animals
- No animal background required but MUST be comfortable working around animals
- This position will require weekday and weekend shifts holidays
- Daily cleaning, disinfecting and sanitation of kennel area, cages, yard, and hospital
- Cleaning and maintaining animal kennels / cages, hospital building and premises
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of animal care attendant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for animal care attendant
- Preparing surgical suites
- Preparing surgical packs
- Prepping patients for surgery
- Feeding, medicating and caring for dogs and cats
- Walking dogs and socializing cats
- Cleaning and maintaining hospital premises, including deep cleaning of the whole hospital, inside and outside
- Bathing pets and prepping them for grooming services
- Cleaning and maintaining hotel premises
- Assisting departments when necessary
- Facility cleaning and maintaining
Qualifications for animal care attendant
- Must be friendly, outgoing, and a team-player
- Willing to work long, irregular hours
- Ability to walk, bend, stand and reach constantly during a minimum 8-hour day
- Honesty, Integrity, and a positive attitude
- Ideal candidate would have a team player mentality and be willing to cross train in every department of the hospital
- Experience with animals recommended
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Our growing company is looking for an animal care attendant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for animal care attendant
- Provide excellent patient care, attend to needs of all pets with kindness and compassion
- Safely restrain patients
- Clean cages and playcare area daily (inside and outside), laundry, sweep, vacuum, mop
- Assisting Reception Staff
- Assisting Receptionists when necessary
- Feeding and caring for dogs, cats, and some exotics including birds
- Holiday, Weekend's required
- Walk dogs of all sizes several times a day
- Participate in activities to help socialize the animals within the shelter
- Perform basic bathing and grooming of the animals as directed and when needed
Qualifications for animal care attendant
- Experience in the Animal Health Care field is recommended, but we can train the right individual
- Strong desire and passion to help & the ability to build relationships with clients, and patients
- Accurately maintain medical & financial records
- 5+ years in client service related field
- 3+ Veterinary Hospital / Animal Healthcare experience preferred (willing to train the right candidate)
- Must be comfortable around, and able to work with large animals such as horses and food animals
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of animal care attendant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for animal care attendant
- Clean and disinfect the animal enclosures daily
- Assisting Groomers with lifting pets onto a table or into the tub
- Cleaning and maintaining premises and laundry
- Able to work weekend days
- Working weekends and some holidays is required
- Interacting with dogs in a doggy daycare setting
- Cross trained as a Client Service Rep and help as needed
- Cleaning consult rooms
- Sweeping and mopping the hospital at the end of the day
- Cleaning/disinfecting hospital premises, adhering to infection control protocols and adjusted /additional standards relating to covid-19
Qualifications for animal care attendant
- Must be able to jog large animals and provide basic care
- Must be able to work with fractious animals
- Must be able to work independently and as part of a team, and be able to self-motivate
- Experience in ER/ICU or busy general practice
- Excellent attendance, punctuality and work record
- Running play groups
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Animal Care Attendant Job Description
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of animal care attendant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for animal care attendant
- Assisting Doctors and Technicians when necessary - including holding patients, communicating with clients regarding patient presentation at drop-off exams, socialization of kittens/puppies
- Assisting Receptionist with answering phones and taking payments when necessary
- Performing check-in / check-out process with clients of boarding pets
- Keeping clients informed as to how their pets are doing while in our care
- Bathing dogs and doing nail trims
- Cleaning and maintaining hospital premises both inside and out
- Working on a computer and iPad to maintain patient files and treatment schedules
- Feeds and waters small animals according to schedules and instructions
- We offer competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including, medical/dental/vision and paid vacation, 401(k), generous personal pet care discounts, and more!
- Assisting Doctors and Technicians with patients
Qualifications for animal care attendant
- Working with front desk and medical teams to ensure exceptional care of pets during their boarding stay
- Scheduling flexibility to include days, nights, weekends and holidays
- Must treat animals with care and respect and work well with them
- Must enjoy keeping pets and kennels clean
- This position requires the ability to walk, bend, stand and reach constantly during a
- Large Animal handling experience including feeding and providing basic care and working with fractious animals