Animal Care Attendant - ACA1

Spca; Williams Lake; In loco; CAD 21.000 - 28.000; Part-time

Descrizione del lavoro

BC SPCA in Williams Lake, BC is seeking an Animal Care Attendant. You will join a team providing daily animal care, nutrition, enrichment, and humane handling in a busy shelter setting.

The role requires a high school diploma, a valid BC driver’s license, strong communication skills, and a genuine interest in animal welfare. Flexibility to work varied shifts, weekends and holidays is essential.

Competenze

• High school diploma or equivalent required or equivalent experience.
• Valid Class N or 5 BC Driver's License with driving record.
• Strong customer service, communication, and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Team player with initiative and reliability.
• Keen interest in animal welfare and welfare monitoring.
• Able to work seven days a week including holidays; physically demanding.
• Proficiency with Windows and MS Office applications.

Mansioni

• Maintain the facility clean, sanitary, and efficient in a collaborative manner.
• Keep kennels, runs, and cat cages healthy and welfare-focused per protocols.
• Monitor animal health using kennel cards, logs, and welfare sheets.
• Feed, water, exercise, and enrich animals daily.
• Perform bathing and grooming of animals.
• Treat animals humanely in line with BC SPCA Five Freedoms.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Conoscenze

Customer service

Communication

Team player

Animal welfare knowledge

MS Office

Physical fitness

Flexible

Observation skills

Formazione

High school diploma or equivalent

Strumenti

Windows OS

Microsoft Office

Descrizione del lavoro

POSITION:

Animal Care Attendant

STATUS:

Permanent; Part-Time with benefits

SHIFT:

Various shifts

LOCATION:

Williams Lake, BC

CLASSIFICATION:

Exempt

WAGE:

Hourly

CLOSING DATE:

Open Until Filled

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
• Philosophical harmony with the vision, mission, and strategic directions of the BC SPCA.