Animal Care Technician

Lake City Animal Health & Wellness Ctr; Warsaw (IN); On-site; USD 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Vacation & Sick

Parental Leave

Competitive Compensation

Continuing Education Allowance

Tuition Reimbursement

Referral Bonus

Background Check

Job summary

Lake City Animal Health & Wellness Center in Warsaw, Indiana, is hiring an animal care technician to assist with care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of patients in our hospital and boarding facility. You will help with post-operative patients, animal restraint, and exams, while ensuring accurate medication and treatment records.

We value compassion, reliability, and the ability to perform moderately heavy physical tasks.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods.
• Proper methods of animal restraint.
• Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment with skill and efficiency.
• Perform moderately heavy physical labor (large dogs, bags of litter, pet foods, etc).
• Ability to sympathetically and patiently attend to sick, scared and injured animals.
• Ability to learn to administer medications and to recognize abnormal conditions.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of the job.

Responsibilities

• The animal care technician is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of our patients in the hospital and boarding facility.
• This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating patients.
• You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies, helping with post-operative patients, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams.
• You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care.
• You may be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Skills

Cleaning & Disinfection

Animal Restraint

Cleaning Materials & Equipment

Physical Stamina

Compassionate Care

Medication Administration

Following Written Directions

Cooperative Relations

Job description

• Compensation: USD 13.00 - USD 14.00 - hourly

Company Description

Lake City Animal Health and Wellness Center is a full-service community animal hospital. Our goal is to provide high quality veterinary service in a personable and accommodating manner by consistently focusing on accurate diagnostics, effective communication, compassionate treatment of animals, and client education.

Lake City Animal Health & Wellness Center offers many veterinary services including Wellness exams, Surgery, Onsite Laboratory, Radiology, Dermatology, Intensive Care, Vaccinations, Microchipping, Behavioral Counseling, Nutritional Counseling, Internal Medicine, Dentistry, Pain Management, and much more!

Our practice is located in Warsaw, Indiana, known as the “Orthopedic Capital of the World” for its many long-standing orthopedic device manufacturers that call the city home. Warsaw is about 2 hours southeast of Chicago, IL in the northeast section of Indiana. Whether you’re into history, outdoor lakes and beach adventures, dining or culture, Warsaw has something for everyone. Higher educational opportunities are available at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University-South Bend and Indiana Wesleyan University. The downtown area is also very busy with an award winning craft brewery and multiple restaurants! Come check us out – we’re confident you’ll love it and want to stay.

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

The animal care technician is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of our patients in the hospital and boarding facility. This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating patients. You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies, helping with post-operative patients, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams. You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care. You may be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with:

• Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods.
• Proper methods of animal restraint.
• Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment with skill and efficiency.
• Perform moderately heavy physical labor (large dogs, bags of litter, pet foods, etc).
• Abilityto sympathetically and patiently attend to sick, scared and injured animals.
• Ability to learn to administer medications and to recognize abnormal conditions.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of the job.

Additional Information

Pay Range: $13-$14 per hour

We offer our staff:

• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time for ALL Employees
• Paid Bereavement Program
• Paid Parental Leave Program
• Competitive Compensation
• Continuing Education Allowance (applies to licensed/registered/certified roles)
• Tuition Reimbursement Program Available to any AVMA Accredited Veterinary Technology Program
• Referral Bonus Program for most positions!
• Additional Benefits May Also Be Available (i.e. Personal Pet Discounts, Holiday Pay, Uniform Allowance, Bonuses etc)
• Hiring eligibility may be contingent to a candidate authorizing and completing a satisfactory background check.

*Note – some benefits may only be available to or vary slightly for full time employment status vs part time status.