Attendant: Animal Care - Casual

Ottawa Humane Society; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ottawa Humane Society is seeking an Attendant: Animal Care to help with daily animal husbandry, feeding, cleaning, and welfare monitoring at our Ottawa site. This casual role supports volunteers and trainees and requires adherence to policies and safety practices.

Applicants should have at least a secondary school diploma and six months of animal care experience, with strong English communication skills for records and collaboration. Evening, weekend, and holiday shifts may be required.

Qualifications

• Secondary school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of six months' experience in animal care.
• Working proficiency in spoken and written English is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide animal husbandry including daily feeding, watering, exercise, enrichment, and following special instructions.
• Clean and maintain animal care facilities and equipment.
• Monitor animal health and welfare and keep accurate records.
• Restrain animals for veterinary procedures as needed.
• Support volunteers, students and work placements; provide training and orientation.

Skills

English proficiency

Education

Secondary school diploma or equivalent

Job description

The Attendant: Animal Care is responsible for providing animal husbandry and cleaning of animal care facilities at the Ottawa Humane Society (OHS).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain animal health by ensuring daily feeding, watering, exercise, enrichment, and any special instructions are completed
• Clean and maintain animal care equipment and facilities
• Monitor the health and welfare of the animals and maintain up-to-date records
• Restrain animals for veterinary procedures
• Support the activities of volunteers, students and work placements and provide training and orientation as required
• Be thoroughly familiar with pertinent legislation, regulations, guidelines, OHS policies, procedures, collective agreement, and good animal care practices
• Produce and maintain accurate reports, records, and files
• Participate in supervision, evaluation, training and other meetings as required
• Participate in the identification and evaluation of OHS program goals and objectives
• Participate in professional development opportunities
• Represent the OHS in a professional manner
• May be required to assume the responsibilities of Attendant: Kennel Kitchen

Qualifications

• Secondary school diploma or equivalent
• Minimum of six months' experience in animal care
• Working proficiency in spoken and written English is required

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements

• Employee will be required to work evening, holiday and weekend shifts
  
• Employment is conditional upon the ability to provide services in a safe manner, including, but not limited to, lifts and transfers of large animals and interaction with potentially aggressive animals
• Employment is conditional upon the ability to perform a variety of physically demanding tasks safely
• Employee may be required to work outdoors in inclement weather
• Employee will be required to wear a uniform designated by the employer
• Employment is conditional upon maintaining confidentiality of OHS information
• Employment is conditional upon the ability to work around all species of animals safely

The Ottawa Humane Society is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workplace and encourage applications from all qualified individuals of any race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, or other protected characteristic.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities in our recruitment processes. If you are contacted by the OHS regarding a job opportunity, please let us know prior to interview if you require any accommodation.

Schedule

This is a casual position with no set schedule or guaranteed hours.