Veterinary Kennel Technician

Alliance Animal Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A non-profit organization in New York City seeks a kennel technician to care for and clean hospital and boarding facility patients. The role involves feeding, walking, medicating, and ensuring the overall wellbeing of animals, while collaborating with veterinary staff.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental, vision, etc.)

Paid Vacation and Sick Time

Paid Parental Leave

Continuing Education Allowance

Tuition Assistance

Career Development Opportunities

Referral Bonus Program

Personal Pet Discounts

Holiday Pay

Uniform Allowance

Qualifications

• Ability to clean and disinfect effectively.
• Skills in animal restraint.
• Physical capability to perform cleaning and handling tasks.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for care, feeding, and cleaning of animals.
• Maintain proper recordkeeping of medications and special diets.
• Assisting in surgical cleaning and sterilization processes.

Skills

Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods

Proper methods of animal restraint

Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment

Moderately heavy physical labor

Sympathetic to sick animals

Ability to administer medications

Understand oral and written directions

Maintain cooperative relationships

Job description

Company Description

City Veterinary Care is committed to helping all of New York City's dogs and cats. We operate a non-profit organization, The Toby Project,the objective of which is to solveNew YorkCity's pet overpopulation problem (approximately 10,000 dogs and catslose their liveseach year in our city's shelter system). Our highly acclaimed veterinarians, our knowledgeable and caring front desk staff, and our skilled and compassionate veterinary nursingteam instill, with confidence, what every pet owner desires--the best possible care for their pets. We offer many services to provide the best comprehensive care to our patients including preventative care, vaccines & monitoring, dentistry, 24-hour nursing care, specialty care and State of the Art Equipment.

To learn more about us clickCity Vet!

Job Description

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

The kennel tech is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating and cleaning of our patients in hospital, and our clients in the boarding facility. This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating. 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 will 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.

Additional Information

Pay range:$16-20/hr

We offer our staff:

• Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental, vision, liability, 401k & 401K matching program, life & supplemental insurance, HSA, & FSA)
• 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 Assistance Program
• Access to a CVA/CVT/CVPM Partnership through Penn Foster
• Career Development Opportunities
• 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.

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