Kennel Attendant

Cherokee Trail Veterinary Hospital, PA; Medina (OH); On-site; USD 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

CE allowance

Uniform allowance

Pet care discounts

PTO and holidays

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Sharon Center Veterinary Hospital in Medina, Ohio is seeking a Kennel Attendant to care for boarding and daycare dogs. You will help pets settle in, ensure they eat well, rest easy, and are attended to from morning opening.

The role offers full-time day shifts, 8-hour days, rotating weekends and holidays. Compensation starts at $13.50 per hour, with medical, dental, vision, life insurance, CE allowance, uniform allowance, and more.

Qualifications

• Comfort around dogs and cats is required.
• Prior animal care, boarding, kennel, or veterinary experience helps, but it isn't required.
• Interest in growing within animal care or veterinary medicine.

Responsibilities

• Help pets settle in, eat well, and rest easy because someone paid attention to the details of their stay.
• Maintain a play yard where every dog gets exercise, supervision, and a caregiver who knows their name.
• Ensure daily care happens on time so nothing about a pet's routine falls through the cracks.
• Open the hospital each morning clean, stocked, and ready before the first patient arrives.
• Contribute to a kennel stay that makes an owner say 'she seems happier than when we dropped her off'.

Skills

Comfort working around dogs and cats

Job description

Overview

Kennel Attendant | Medina, Ohio

A kennel is just a room until somebody makes it a home away from home. At Sharon Center Veterinary Hospital, that somebody is our Kennel Attendant, the person our boarding and daycare dogs are happiest to see all day. Between the big fenced play yard, the boarders settling in for the week, and the rehab patients working their way back to full speed, no two days here look the same, and every one of them matters to somebody's pet.

About the Practice

Sharon Center Veterinary Hospital has been caring for the pets of Medina and the surrounding communities since 1978. We're a full-service hospital for dogs, cats, and exotics, offering wellness care, surgery, dentistry, rehabilitation, grooming, doggie daycare, and boarding, which means the animals in our kennel are never an afterthought; they're part of the same standard of care as every patient in our exam rooms. If you want a place where kennel work is real animal care and treated that way, you'll fit right in here.

What You'll Help Make Possible

• Pets that settle in, eat well, and rest easy because someone paid attention to the details of their stay
• A play yard where every dog gets exercise, supervision, and a friend who knows their name
• Daily care that happens on time, every time, so nothing about a pet's routine falls through the cracks
• A hospital that opens every morning clean, stocked, and ready before the first patient arrives
• The kind of stay that makes an owner say "she seems happier than when we dropped her off"

What We're Looking For

Required

• Comfort working around dogs and cats

Preferred

• Prior animal care, boarding, kennel, or veterinary experience helps, but it isn't required. Everything this job takes can be learned here
• Interest in growing within animal care or veterinary medicine

Schedule

• Full-time, day shifts
• 8-hour shifts
• Rotating weekends as part of the team schedule
• Holidays included in the team rotation

Compensation

Compensation for this role starts at $13.50/hour, based on experience and role alignment.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on experience
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Free virtual mental health services for your household (ages 13+)
• Generous CE allowance + paid CE time
• Uniform allowance
• Pet care discounts for your personal pets
• PTO, floating holidays, parental leave, and military leave
• A robust Employee Assistance Program covering finances, wellness, and everything in between
• Access to Encore Vet Group's library of training, CE, and career development resources
• A 401(k) with up to 5% company match

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Pay Range

USD $13.50 - USD $13.50 /Hr.

Check us out

www.sharoncentervethospital.com

Sharon Center Veterinary Hospital is proud to be partnered by Encore Vet Group – see what that means for you: www.encorevet.com

Encore Vet Group

Encore Vet Group is acommunity of veterinary hospitals that share a passion for the profession and a strong commitment to those who provide veterinary care. We are dedicated to a great culture, strong leadership, and high-quality medicine. Veterinary practice success doesn’t happen without these key ingredients.

Our hospitals maintain the culture and atmosphere of a private veterinary practice while gaining access to collective resources and veterinary business management expertise to help lead their teams forward and shape their future. Whether you're a veterinarian, technician, or support staff, our focus is to support you in doing what you love — caring for animals while advancing your career.