Part-time Animal Caretaker

Wedington Animal Hospital•Fayetteville, AR

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About The Position

Wedington Animal Hospital is hiring a part-time Animal Caretaker to care for patients in its hospital and boarding facility. Duties include feeding, medicating, cleaning, bathing, doing laundry, walking dogs, and helping with post-operative patients. The role also involves restocking hospital supplies, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and examinations, and maintaining records of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior, and issues that arise while animals are in the hospital’s care. The caretaker may be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments. The hospital is a well-established, progressive, twelve-doctor general practice in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Its services include wellness and preventive care, urgent and emergency care, critical care, general and orthopedic surgery, internal and external medicine, diagnostic imaging, dentistry, ultrasound, an in-house laboratory and pharmacy, cold therapy laser, boarding, and grooming.

Requirements

Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods.
Knowledge of proper animal restraint methods.
Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment skillfully and efficiently.
Ability to perform moderately heavy physical labor, including handling large dogs and bags of litter or pet food.
Ability to attend sympathetically and patiently to sick, scared, and injured animals.
Ability to learn to administer medications and recognize abnormal conditions.
Ability to understand and carry out oral and written directions.
Ability to maintain cooperative relationships with people contacted in the course of the job.

Responsibilities

Care for, feed, medicate, and clean patients in the hospital and boarding facility.
Clean, do laundry, bathe animals, feed them, and walk dogs.
Help with post-operative patients.
Restock hospital supplies.
Assist doctors and assistants with animal restraint and examinations.
Record medications, special foods, appetite, behavior, and any issues that arise while an animal is in the hospital’s care.
May clean and sterilize surgical instruments after training.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision, liability, life and supplemental insurance, 401(k) and 401(k) matching, HSA, and FSA.
Employee Assistance Program.
Paid vacation and sick time for all employees.
Paid bereavement program.
Paid parental leave program.
Competitive compensation.
Continuing education allowance for licensed, registered, or certified roles.
Tuition reimbursement for any AVMA-accredited veterinary technology program.
Career development opportunities.
Referral bonus program for most positions.
Additional benefits may be available, such as personal pet discounts, holiday pay, uniform allowance, and bonuses.