We are looking for an Animal Attendant to be integral to our Dolittles Team, by providing the highest level of animal care, maintaining hygienic animal housing conditions, delivering excellent customer service and administrative support as required.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Walking and exercising animals
- Feeding animals
- Grooming and washing animals
- Monitoring, addressing and reporting animal welfare and health of animals
- Completing daily report accurately
- Administering medication to animals and providing pet first aid (pending level/training)
- Liaise with mobile vets/travel to emergency vet if needed
- Cleaning and maintenance of animal boarding facilities and animal care products
- Operation of pickup and delivery vehicle as required
- Customer service in person, over the phone and via email
- Administrative support- including bookings, processing payments, maintaining vaccination records, photo reporting, adding social media posts and data entry.
- Other tasks as requested by management
Skills and Behaviors
- Practiced animal husbandry skills- Level 3 Animal Husbandry / Animal Care Attendant or previous experience in a boarding kennel, animal shelter or veterinary practice, or a similar animal - care environment is highly regarded.
- Able to read and react to animal behavior- Excellent understanding of animal behavior, with the ability to accurately interpret body language and recognize when an animal is stressed, anxious, uncomfortable or displaying a change in behavior.
- Can work with all animal types/breeds including reptiles
- Active person with high energy levels to work in a rapid-paced environment
- High level of flexibility
- Excellent customer service skills
- Take direction where required
- Ability to work within a team efficiently
- Basic to intermediate to Office suite skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
If you are interested in applying, please provide a resume as part of your application.
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