Animal Care Attendant

5 days ago

Sechelt, Canada BCSPCA Full time

If you are up for the challenge and would like to be considered for this position, we would like to hear from you. The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA) is looking to fill the following career opportunity:
**POSITION**: Animal Care Attendant

**STATUS**: On-Call; Casual

**SHIFT**: Various Shifts

**LOCATION**: Sunshine Coast Animal Centre in Sechelt, BC

**CLASSIFICATION**: Exempt

**WAGE**: $20.00 per hour

**CLOSING DATE**: Open Until Filled

**About the Position**:
Reporting to the Animal Centre Manager, you bring energy and enthusiasm to a team environment while you participate in daily animal care duties and ensure that optimal levels of care are administered to the animals based on the Five Freedoms. You are a positive, engaging people person and thrive in a fast paced environment with lots of changing needs and priorities.

**Some specific duties**:

- To maintain the entire physical plant in a clean, sanitary, and efficient manner on an ongoing basis and in a collaborative manner
- To ensure kennels, runs, and cat cages are kept in a manner that is best suited for the animal’s health and welfare as per the ShelterSense protocols
- To monitor the health and welfare of the animals through the maintenance of up-to-date kennel cards, recording information on whiteboard and daily logs, and completing daily welfare sheets
- To maintain animals on a proper diet ensuring daily feeding, watering, exercise, and enrichment
- To perform general bathing and grooming of animals
- To treat animals humanely, with compassion and concern, and in a manner consistent with the BC SPCA’s five freedoms
- To perform other duties as assigned

**Qualifications you need to have**:

- High school diploma or equivalent
- Valid Class N or 5 BC Drivers’ License and driver’s abstract
- Strong desire to provide excellent customer service skills: patience, professional, positive attitude, attention to detail, adaptability
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with colleagues, customers and volunteers
- Highly motivated self-starter who takes initiative with mínimal supervision
- A sound knowledge of animals, their breeds, characteristics and common diseases
- Previous kennel or animal care experience will be considered an asset
- Demonstrable interest in all aspects of animal welfare
- Position is physically demanding and includes heavy lifting, pushing and pulling which requires an individual with the ability to maintain a level of fitness and endurance to fulfill the required duties
- Computer experience: Windows, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- The animals in our care require attention seven days a week, must be flexible and able to work weekdays, weekends and statutory holidays

**How to apply**:
The BC SPCA is a Registered Charity BN 11881 9036 RR0001

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