Animal Care Attendant - ACA1

BC SPCA; British Columbia; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic organization dedicated to animal welfare and care! This role involves daily animal care duties, ensuring optimal health and welfare for animals based on established protocols. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with a passionate team to provide the best care possible. Your strong communication and customer service skills will help build trusting relationships with colleagues and volunteers. If you're a motivated self-starter with a love for animals, this is the perfect opportunity to make a difference in the lives of animals in need!

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Strong desire for customer service and animal welfare.
• Previous kennel or animal care experience is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness of the physical plant and animal areas.
• Monitor health and welfare of animals, ensuring proper care.
• Perform daily feeding, grooming, and exercise of animals.

Skills

Customer Service Skills

Communication Skills

Animal Care Knowledge

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Microsoft Office

Windows

Job description

We welcome diversity, value differences, and foster inclusion in our employment practices. Find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion by reading our on our website. We invite applications from all qualified individuals who are philosophically aligned with our mission and principles.

The BC SPCA is a dynamic organization with facilities and services across the province of BC. Join an expanding team in an exciting time of change in an organization that makes a difference! Please read below for additional details and let us know if you have the skills and experience we are looking for by submitting your application.

About the Position :

Reporting to the Animal Centre Manager, you bring energy and enthusiasm to a team environment while you participate in daily animal care duties and ensure that optimal levels of care are administered to the animals based on the Five Freedoms. You are a positive, engaging people person and thrive in a fast paced environment with lots of changing needs and priorities.

Some specific duties :

• To maintain the entire physical plant in a clean, sanitary, and efficient manner on an ongoing basis and in a collaborative manner
• To ensure kennels, runs, and cat cages are kept in a manner that is best suited for the animal’s health and welfare as per the ShelterSense protocols
• To monitor the health and welfare of the animals through the maintenance of up-to-date kennel cards, recording information on whiteboard and daily logs, and completing daily welfare sheets
• To maintain animals on a proper diet ensuring daily feeding, watering, exercise, and enrichment
• To perform general bathing and grooming of animals
• To treat animals humanely, with compassion and concern, and in a manner consistent with the BC SPCA’s five freedoms
• To perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications you need to have :

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid Class N or 5 BC Drivers’ License and driver’s abstract
• Strong desire to provide excellent customer service skills : patience, professional, positive attitude, attention to detail, adaptability
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with colleagues, customers and volunteers
• Highly motivated self-starter who takes initiative with minimal supervision
• A sound knowledge of animals, their breeds, characteristics and common diseases
• Previous kennel or animal care experience will be considered an asset
• Demonstrable interest in all aspects of animal welfare
• Position is physically demanding and includes heavy lifting, pushing and pulling which requires an individual with the ability to maintain a level of fitness and endurance to fulfill the required duties
• Computer experience : Windows, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• The animals in our care require attention seven days a week, must be flexible and able to work weekdays, weekends and statutory holidays