Veterinary Kennel Tech: Compassionate Care & Boarding

Alliance Animal Health; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Vacation and Sick Time

Paid Bereavement Program

Paid Parental Leave Program

Competitive Compensation

Continuing Education Allowance

Tuition Reimbursement Program

Career Development Opportunities

Referral Bonus Program

Personal Pet Discounts

Job summary

Cumberland Animal Clinic in Havana, Florida, has served the Tallahassee community since 1974, offering boarding, dentistry, surgery, in-house lab, laser therapy, and more.

We are seeking a kennel tech to care for patients, assist with boarding clients, and support doctors and staff. Training, recordkeeping, feeding, medicating, and instrument cleaning are part of the role.

Benefits include comprehensive coverage and paid time off; commitment to ethics and compassionate care.

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 attend to sick, scared and injured animals sympathetically and patiently.
• 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

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

Skills

Cleaning and disinfecting methods

Animal restraint

Use of cleaning materials and tools

Physical labor (large dogs, etc)

Empathy for sick/injured animals

Administer medications/observation of

Follow oral and written directions

Cooperative relationships with staff

Job description

Cumberland Animal Clinic in Havana, Florida, has served the Tallahassee community since 1974, offering boarding, dentistry, surgery, in-house lab, laser therapy, and more.

We are seeking a kennel tech to care for patients, assist with boarding clients, and support doctors and staff. Training, recordkeeping, feeding, medicating, and instrument cleaning are part of the role.

Benefits include comprehensive coverage and paid time off; commitment to ethics and compassionate care.