Animal Care Technician

5 months ago

Toronto, Canada SickKids Full time

**About SickKids**:
Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

**Position Description**:
The Animal Care Technician provides complete animal care including, clean housing, adequate food and water, appropriate environmental enrichment; maintains adequate health records and monitors health of animals and adequate environmental parameters in the assigned work area. The technician is to follow the room schedule and meet the facility requirements (SOPs) and standards. Takes responsibility for the assigned areas and communicates on any issues during the daily supervisory rounds. The Animal Facility must have staff on weekends and statutory holidays so some weekend work and sharing of statutory holiday work is expected

**Here is What You'll Get To Do**:

- Daily monitoring of animals for health issues. Detected health issues and must be able to determine if the animal requires immediate attention. Maintain records, reported to the veterinarian and follow advised treatment plan for sick animals or euthanasia. Updates the veterinarian on the status with urgent health issues before leaving the area for the day.
- Cage changing (approximately 200+ per day )
- Feed/water
- Provision of technical assistance with experimental treatment administration (injecting, gavaging, topical, and blood collection) and activities related to colony management.
- Monitoring of research staff compliance with the LAS policies on infection prevention and control and reporting any breaches to the Animal Husbandry Supervisor.
- The Animal Care Technician is often assigned to one area of the facility but must gain a full knowledge of each species requirements and each procedure required of them (as per the SOP of that area)
- Maintaining procedure rooms
- General housekeeping in assigned area. Floors, glass, counter tops, removal of garbage, and dirty laundry and procedure rooms in your assigned area.
- Technicians should be able to operate some of the physical plant equipment in an emergency situation and should be familiar with the flow of that area of the facility.
- Other work responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor, including cage wash and surgical areas and attending to weekend and/or statutory holiday work schedule.

**Here is What You'll Need**:
**Essential Requirements**
- Graduate of a 1 year Animal Health program or equivalent experience (minimum 2 years)
- Keen sense of observation.
- Detailed record keeping
- Should be able to lift a minimum of 15kg (feed bags). This is a physically demanding position.
- Able to communicate well. Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
- Be reliable, responsible, and willing to tackle any other assigned duties. Team player.
- A good command of the English language both written and verbal
- Proficient at performing SQ,IP,IM, topical treatments and oral gavaging
- Proficient at performing all 3 methods of euthanasia (CO2,cervical dislocation, IP phenobarbital injection)
- Ear notching and tail clipping, setting up breeding cages, checking for plugs
- Demonstrated commitment and actions in advancing equity, diversity and inclusion objectives

**Assets**
- CALAS certificate
- Experience in other research Facilities
- Computer Training
- Some comprehension of the up-to-date CCAC guidelines

**Employment Type: 1.00 FTE, FT permanent**

**Our Commitment to Diversity**:
The children and families we care for are from a variety of communities, and so are our employees. We welcome and encourage everyone to join our organization and be part of our team.

Thank you for your interest in joining SickKids. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with our Hospital policy, employment at SickKids is conditional upon the Hospital¿s receipt of all necessary documentation.

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