Kennel Attendant
Thrive Pet Healthcare
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Job summary
Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital in Collinsville, IL, is seeking a Kennel Attendant to join the Thrive Pet Healthcare family. The role involves caring for dogs, cats, and pocket pets, feeding, bathing, restraining when needed, and maintaining a clean, safe hospital environment.
The position requires full-time availability including weekends and holidays. Thrive Pet Healthcare supports professional growth and offers a warm, community-oriented workplace alongside national resources.
Qualifications
- Passion to help and treat animals.
- Ability to interact with animals in a calm, non-threatening manner.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Previous experience in animal care or other related fields is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Handle general care tasks such as feeding and bathing of the animals.
- Assist in restraining animals for veterinary team members.
- Keep records of animal feedings, treatments, and other updates.
- Engage in play activities and exercise with the animals.
- Maintain a clean and healthy environment.
Skills
Job description
Full-time- weekend and holiday availability required
You’ll play an important role in pets’ lives by providing outstanding care for our precious patients.
You’ll play an important role in pets’ lives by providing outstanding care for our precious patients.
The success of your patients’ care matters to you, and your success matters to us.
At HLAH, you’ll feel the warmth and culture of a small hospital. As a hospital deeply rooted in the local community, you will experience the best of both worlds: a genuine local culture with the benefits of Thrive's national resources.
At Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital, we offer primary care, urgent care, boarding, grooming, bathing, and dentistry for dogs, cats, and pocket pets in Collinsville, Granite City, Edwardsville, Maryville, and Fairview Heights.
We have a strong belief in preventive care, offering customized vaccine protocols and multiple levels of disease detection panels at our patients’ annual visits.
Our hospital also prides itself on having state-of-the-art equipment including a digital X-ray machine like those used in human medicine. The digital X-ray machine allows us to take high-quality radiographs in seconds and gives our doctors images with better diagnostic quality. We also offer cold laser therapy to help treat pain and inflammation in a wide variety of conditions. This often allows us to decrease the amount of pain medications needed to control painful conditions like arthritis and intervertebral disk disease.
- Passion to help and treat animals
- Ability to interact with animals in a calm, non-threatening manner
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Previous experience in animal care or other related fields is preferred but not required
- Handle general care tasks such as feeding and bathing of the animals
- Assist in restraining animals for veterinary team members
- Keep records of animal feedings, treatments, and other updates
- Engage in play activities and exercise with the animals
- Maintain a clean and healthy environment
- Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
- Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
- Competitive pay-starting at $15/hr
- 401(k) with employer match
- Mental health resources, including easy access to therapy through Lyra Health
- Paid parental leave
- Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
- Subsidized backup childcare and elder care
- Expert advice, support and network discounts for fertility and family planning
- FREE CE courses
- Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
- Student loan support tools and assistance
- Some benefits shown are only for full-time team members who work 30 hours or more per week. Certain Benefits may be subject to waiting periods or length of service requirements.
Compensation negotiable based on credentials and experience with a hourly pay rate starting at $15/ hour. The actual rate offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Thrive Pet Healthcare creates the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners. Today, its network of 360+ primary, emergency, and specialty hospitals across the U.S. cares for pets of all ages and health needs, while portfolio companies provide tools and technology that help veterinary teams work smarter and deliver better care. Thrive invests in its people—through mentorship, leadership programs, continuing education, and well-being initiatives—so teams can grow and feel supported. For pet owners, convenient solutions such as a mobile app, Thrive Plus membership, HereFurYou Helpline, online booking, and flexible financial options make accessing quality care simpler— giving families the peace of mind their pets deserve. Learn more at thrivepetcare.com.
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