Opportunity
Employer description:
Animal Care Assistant tasks;
- Day to day care of animals on site including dogs, cats, small animals
- Cleaning of accommodation
- Grooming
- Feeding
- Exercise
- Administering medication if required.
- Ensuring animal welfare needs are met on a daily basis
- Ensuring animals receive appropriate enrichment for their specific needs.
- Exercising dogs via walking & use of outside exercise areas.
- Maintaining a high standard of cleanliness & hygiene on site, to the animal accommodation, food preparation, laundry, store areas, staff & volunteer facilities
- ensure buildings/exercise areas are always secure
- Carrying out health checks on animals and reporting any concerns & feedback to the team
- Assisting with Behaviour Plans by observing behavioural changes & recording & reporting to the Senior animal handler.
- Assisting with carrying out on-going assessments for animals at the Centre under the direction of the senior animal handler & management team.
- Working alongside Volunteers and Work Experience students
- Keeping animal records accurate in files & systems.
- Working to Centre protocols to maintain high standards of presentation throughout the centre.
- Being responsible for their own health and safety.
- To undertake any other duties required by the Management team
Veterinary Care Assistant tasks;
- Assisting the receptionist with taking payments, phone calls and general enquiries, appointment bookings, operation bookings and repeat prescription requests.
General cleaning duties including daily upkeep and deep cleans. Laundry, washing dishes and dog bowls and bedding, cleaning kennel bank and crate, dusting, cleaning floors.
- Organising Vaccination reminders
- Posting duties including frequent use of the franking machine
- Basic garden upkeep including care of flowers and indoor plants.
- Weekly/monthly stock takes and orders with the main wholesalers.
- Re-stocking of consult room and prep room
- Packaging and preparing laboratory samples and laboratory forms, calling the laboratory and putting the sample in the collection box ready for collection.
- Updating the practice notice board with laboratory sample information and other key information from the day, ready for hand-over to different team the following morning.
- Cleaning and packing of surgical kits ready for sterilisation including drapes and instruments, swabs and dental equipment.
- Preparing vaccination cards and paperwork in preparation for puppies/kittens and litters before the appointment.
- Preparing theatre for surgery in the morning, preparation of intravenous catheter placement and setting up instrument trolley/anaesthetic machine.
- Clearing down theatre after surgery and ensuring theatre is set up in preparation for possible emergency surgery or extras/the following day.
- General assisting with animals in the practice and in patients if required.
- Handling of dogs and cats in the consulting room and theatre with nurse/vet as required.
Location
St. Giles are looking for someone who is confident, reliable, has a good work ethic, and a hard worker.