Veterinary Kennel Tech: Patient Care & Boarding

Alliance Animal Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

401k match

Paid time off

Bereavement program

Parental leave

CE allowance

Tuition reimbursement

Career development

Referral bonus

Job summary

City Veterinary Care in New York City is seeking a kennel technician to care for hospitalized animals and supervise clients in our boarding facility. You will clean, medicate and monitor patients, assist with exams and help maintain hospital records.

We value compassion, reliability and the ability to handle large dogs and busy environments. Benefits include comprehensive benefits and paid time off; prior experience in veterinary settings is a plus.

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).
• 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

• Care, feeding, medicating and cleaning of patients in hospital, and clients in the 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.
• Proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care.
• Training to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Skills

Cleaning & disinfecting

Animal restraint

Heavy lifting

Recordkeeping

Medication administration

Oral & written directions

Team cooperation

Job description

City Veterinary Care in New York City is seeking a kennel technician to care for hospitalized animals and supervise clients in our boarding facility. You will clean, medicate and monitor patients, assist with exams and help maintain hospital records.

We value compassion, reliability and the ability to handle large dogs and busy environments. Benefits include comprehensive benefits and paid time off; prior experience in veterinary settings is a plus.