Description
Position at Ayer Animal Medical Center
Ayer Animal Medical Centeris seeking a parttime kennel technician with the desire to care for animals join their AMAZING team!
The ideal candidate:
- Canine experience required
- Is motivated and hardworking
- Strong communication skills
- Can take direction well
- Works well independentlyandon a team
- Must be available to work weekends and holidays
- Is a quick learner
- Has basic computer skills
Job Overview:
The purpose of this position is to provide for the daily care of boarding pets. This includes feeding watering cleaning walking bathing medicating and monitoring the wellbeing of dogs cats and occasionally other companion animals. This position requires a love of animals and the ability to warmly welcome clients and compassionately care for their pets. Kennel team members are also responsible for the cleaning of the clinic. This includes laundry dusting sweeping moping washing dishes and other tasks on a daily basis alongside their kennel duties.
Responsibilities Include:
- Daily documentation of tasks (appetite bathroom habits etc.)
- Check in and out boarding clients and patients
- Verify vaccines.
- Maintain a clean kennel environment.
- Walking pets/ taking outside
- Accurately label pets and their belongings
- Administer food and medications to pets.
- Accurately communicating and document any problems or concerns such as illnesses or injury
- Communicate with clients updates on pets.
- Cleaning of hospital grounds (interior and exterior)
- Cleaning maintaining a safe and clean area for the hospital
- kennels
- hospital interior/grounds
- mopping
- vacuuming
- laundry
The hospitals kennel operates 7 days a week 365 days a year and does not close due to inclement weather or holidays.
Why work at the Ayer Animal Medical Center
AAMC is proud to serve Ayer MA and surrounding areas. We are dedicated to providing the highest level of veterinary medicine along with friendly compassionate service.We believe in treating every patient as if they were our own pet and giving them the same loving attention and care. We are a group of highly trained experienced animal lovers who are devoted to giving our patients the best care possible.
Compensation negotiable based on credentials and experience with starting rate ranging from $17 $18/hr. The actual rate offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors including your skills qualifications experience and location.
If you are passionate about pets and providing amazing care we want you to join our team!
Apply today! We look forward to hearing from you!