Animal Attendant

Pay Rate: $33.85 per hour plus penalty rates

Rotating Shifts: 7am – 4:30pm

Hours: 30– 40 hours per week

Our Gold Coast Luxury Pet Resorts requires an exceptional team member to join our growing team.

We are a small, family run business just outside of Nerang, which offers a luxury service for dogs and cats. This is a casual position that includes working weekends, public holidays and school holidays. We are a 7 day a week business, so all staff must be flexible with shifts.

Your role would include (but is not limited to):

- Meeting and greeting our guests and their owners

- Answering phones and emails to provide information to current and future customers

- Administration duties, data entry and filing

- Providing feedback to clients regarding their pets’ experience

- Daily feeding (including special diets) and medicating of dogs and cats

- Pet activities (Walks, Swims, Brush & Massage etc)

- Photos for social media

- Health checks and maintaining animal records

- Hydro bathing, basic grooming and various physical activities with guests

- Showing people through our resort for inspections

- Collecting and delivering our guests using our chauffer service

- Cleaning guests’ accommodation to a high standard

To apply, you will need to:

- Genuinely enjoy working with cats and dogs (paid experience essential)

- Have a valuable knowledge of dog and cat breeds

- Be confident and competent in handling dogs and cats

- Be computer literate, including Word and Outlook

- Be experienced and proficient in reception and administration duties

- Be organised, efficient, accurate and have a particular eye for detail





- Possess a very high standard of customer service skills and a friendly phone manner

- Be able to work autonomously and multi task in a sometimes-pressured environment

- Be available weekends, public holidays, and all school holidays as well as during the week.

- Have a current Open Driver’s License and own a vehicle

The successful candidates will:

- Learn quickly and understand detailed information without difficulty

- Be physically fit and have energy to burn

- Be quick and eager to help others in your team

- Respond well to time constraints and work efficiently at a brisk pace

- Perform well without direct management, yet welcome some structure and supervision as needed

- Have a great attitude, is personable and very well presented

- Be motivated and have initiative

- Be available for immediate training

- Be available to work every weekend. Only people with full weekend availability will be considered.

- Working Conditions (VERY IMPORTANT!)

This is a high animal contact position. This job is intense and physically demanding. Work is performed in a pet resort setting indoors and outdoors. Standing on feet for 7 or more hours a day. Exposure to wet and/or humid conditions and outside weather.

- If you do not fit the criteria above, please do not apply

If you think you could be the next exceptional member of our team, please forward your resume & cover letter to *******@barkroyal.com.au

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY applications with a COVER LETTER will be considered. Any AI generated cover letters will not be considered.

IMPORTANT: ABSOLUTELY NO PHONE CALLS OR WALK-INs you will not be considered for the job.

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