Animal Care Attendant
1 week ago
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)
**The BC SPCA is looking to fill the following job opportunity**:
**POSITION**: Animal Care Attendant - ACA1
**STATUS**: Permanent; Casual
**SHIFT**: On
- Call
**WAGE**: CAD 19.00 per hour
**LOCATION**: BC SPCA Alberni-Clayoquot Animal Centre
St Port Alberni BC
**CLOSING DATE**: Open until Filled
Reporting to the Branch 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.
You care deeply about animals and uphold the highest animal care standards. If you are hard-working, collaborative, highly skilled and passionate about making a difference, you will find yourself among like-minded people at the BC SPCA.
**What you will do**:
- 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 answer telephones and walk-in inquiries in a courteous manner providing information satisfactory to the needs of the customer
- To ensure all procedures for receiving, licensing or adopting of animals are conducted according to procedure and meet the needs of customers
- To perform other duties as assigned
**You will have**:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Valid Class 5 BC Drivers’ License
- Previous administrative experience is considered an asset
- 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
- Philosophical harmony with the mission, vision and strategic direction of the BC SPCA
- 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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