Overnight Wards (Kennel Assistant)

Pacific & Santa Cruz Veterinary Specialists•Santa Cruz, CA

7d•$17 - $17•Onsite

About The Position

At Pacific and Santa Cruz Veterinary Specialists , our team shares a passion for exceptional patient care and a deep sense of teamwork. We work closely across departments to ensure every pet receives the highest quality of care and every client feels supported. Our culture is built on collaboration, respect, and learning. Team members are encouraged to grow their skills through mentorship, continuing education , and hands-on experience in a supportive environment. Position Overview Under direction of lead technicians/lead assistants, provides for the constant cleanliness of cages, runs, and all areas of the hospital. Ensures proper feeding and patient care of all hospitalized animals assigned. Assists in all departments. Specific Duties: Ensuring patients are in clean kennels with clean bedding. They have food and water when appropriate. Extra walks if needed. Clean and sanitize all cages and runs. Check potty yard and walk ways for feces/urine. Clean as needed. Recognize and inform team of any unusual condition or abnormal behavior of patients. Keep breakrooms clean and neat. Receives animals to be admitted and is responsible for their proper identification. Releases animals to owners as directed by DVM or tech and insures that patient is clean, properly groomed and required medications and belongings are there. Verify for any bandages and ask DVM/tech when they need to be removed. Inform client of this info. Assist DVM, techs, and assistants with the administration of medications and patient restraint. Responsible for laundry in wards, surgery, and treatment. Assist in overall hospital cleaning and organization. This includes checking corners and hallways for dust bunnies, taking trash/recycling out, putting away loose items. Clean window seals and Windex window of the fishbowl and recovery. Check lab area for leftover blood tubes. Check with tech/asst in tx/ICU if they should be tossed or kept. Go through the lab hold drawer and toss items depending on date. Check the list on the drawer for reference. Run lab work Restock treatment area and complete cleaning list Clean, sterilize, wrap instruments in treatment (Will be trained to do within time) Clean, sterilize, wrap and autoclave instruments in SX (Will be trained to do within time) Completing and folding surgeries surgical laundry (Will be trained to do within time) Answering the phone (Will be trained to do within time) Charging our client (Will be trained to do within time)

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Working independently and as a team
Able to complete cleaning, janitorial and restocking without oversight.
May consider an equivalent combination of education, certification, training, and/or experience
Ability to work with or around sick animals, potentially hazardous materials, cleaning chemicals, gas anesthetics, zoonotic diseases, and unpleasant odors
Must be flexible with scheduling and able to work weekends, overnights and holidays
This is a strenuous job that requires a lot of lifting, cleaning, and constant motion
Depending on functional area of assignment, tasks may include standing for long period of times/walking
May involve some stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling
Some tasks involve the periodic performance of moderately physically demanding work, usually involving lifting or carrying moderately heavy animals (up to 50 pounds)

Nice To Haves

Animal handling not required but a plus!
Schedule Sunday to Wednesday from 11PM-7:30AM
Able to work some holidays and a consistent schedule.

Responsibilities

Ensuring patients are in clean kennels with clean bedding.
Clean and sanitize all cages and runs.
Check potty yard and walk ways for feces/urine.
Recognize and inform team of any unusual condition or abnormal behavior of patients.
Keep breakrooms clean and neat.
Receives animals to be admitted and is responsible for their proper identification.
Releases animals to owners as directed by DVM or tech and insures that patient is clean, properly groomed and required medications and belongings are there.
Verify for any bandages and ask DVM/tech when they need to be removed. Inform client of this info.
Assist DVM, techs, and assistants with the administration of medications and patient restraint.
Responsible for laundry in wards, surgery, and treatment.
Assist in overall hospital cleaning and organization.
Run lab work
Restock treatment area and complete cleaning list
Clean, sterilize, wrap instruments in treatment
Clean, sterilize, wrap and autoclave instruments in SX
Completing and folding surgeries surgical laundry
Answering the phone
Charging our client