Compassionate Veterinary 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

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.