Animal Care Attendant

Reporting to the Animal Care Manager and Director of Operations, you will be responsible for supporting animal health and wellness in the shelter.

**Mission Alignment**:
The Lakefield Animal Welfare Society champions the welfare of animals by offering refuge and shelter, providing high-quality, compassionate care, facilitating adoptions, promoting education and community engagement, addressing overpopulation issues, and delivering a wide range of essential services.

**Equity, Diversity and Inclusion**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Clean cages/condos/kennels, feeding, bathing, grooming, exercising and general care for the animals
- Observe, document and communicate any abnormalities with animal emotional or physical health to the Animal Care Manager (including observations from the volunteers)
- General cleaning and tidiness of the premises and equipment
- Follow all disease and infection control, intake, and health and wellness protocols and best practices
- Ensure animals are in compliance with feeding, medicine, vaccine, internal/external parasite control protocols, best practices, prescribed treatments and directions from the veterinarian
- Accurate record-keeping and file management
- Maintain animal enrichment program and feeding regime
- Work within the Fear Free Shelter philosophy
- Provide appropriate enrichment, housing, and proper exercise to all animals
- Assist with adoptions by performing “meet and greets” with potential families and taking pictures/videos of animals
- Provide transport to and from the veterinary clinic(s)

**Qualifications**:

- Good verbal and written skills in English are required
- Valid G Class Driver's License and maintain a clean driver abstract

**Requirements and working conditions**:

- Employees may be required to work weekends and holidays
- Employment is conditional upon the ability to provide services safety, including being able to lift up to 50 lbs
- Employment is conditional upon maintaining the confidentiality of LAWS information
- Employment is conditional upon the ability to work around all species of animals safely and confidently

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: $17.20-$17.97 per hour

Expected hours: 15 - 30 per week

Work Location: In person