Part-time Veterinary Kennel Technician

St. Francis Animal Hospital; Springdale, Northern (AR, KY); Hybrid; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Vacation and Sick Time

Paid Bereavement Program

Paid Parental Leave Program

Competitive Compensation

Continuing Education Allowance

Tuition Reimbursement Program

Referral Bonus Program

Job summary

St. Francis Animal Hospital is a well-established, progressive animal care practice in Northwest Arkansas seeking a kennel technician to support our fast-paced 2.5-doctor companion animal and exotics team. You will care for hospital/boarding patients, assist with exams, and help maintain records.

The role involves cleaning, feeding, medicating, walking dogs, restocking supplies, and assisting clinicians. Weekend availability and bilingual English/Spanish are a plus; we offer competitive

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.
• Saturday and Sunday availability required.
• Bilingual, English/Spanish a plus!

Responsibilities

• Care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of patients in hospital and boarding facility.
• Cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating.
• Restocking hospital supplies and helping with post-operative patients.
• Assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams.
• Proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite and behavior.
• May be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Skills

Cleaning methods

Animal restraint

Equipment handling

Physical stamina

Patient care

Medication administration

Follow directions

Teamwork

Weekend availability

Bilingual (EN/ES)

Job description

St. Francis Animal Hospital is a well-established, progressive, fast paced 2.5doctorcompanion animal and exoticspractice located in beautiful Northwest Arkansas. We offer many services to provide the best comprehensive care to our patients including preventative care, surgery, urgent care, dentistry, cold laser therapy, in-house diagnostics, digital full body radiology, ultrasonography, and boarding.

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

The kennel tech 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.
• Saturday and Sunday availabilityrequired
• Bilingual, English/Spanish a plus!

Additional Information

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.