Casual Veterinary Technician
5 days ago
Casual Veterinary Technician
About Queen's University
Queen’s University is the Canadian research intensive university with a transformative student learning experience. Here the employment experience is as diverse as it is interesting. We have opportunities in multiple areas of globally recognized research, faculty administration, engineering & construction, athletics & recreation, power generation, corporate shared services, and many more.
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Job Summary
**Hourly Rate**: $22/hour + 4% vacation pay = $22.88/hour
**Job Description**:
**Job Duties**:
- Provide daily care and husbandry for laboratory animals.
- Providing animal treatments under veterinary guidance.
- Prepare and dispense the correct diet for specific species according to the animal’s biological needs, using scales, volumetric devices and including sterilization procedure.
- Recognize and record deviations from normal health and behaviour, reporting any abnormalities to Veterinary Services.
- Accurately identify, handle, and restrain animals within the facility.
- Must be aware of the basic principles of sterility, quarantining, conditioning, and epidemiological control.
- Handling and providing for the needs of special husbandry cases:
- Biohazards
Sterile environment
Lifting heavy animals and equipment e.g. bags of food, paper, cleaning fluids, caging.
- These skills are applied to the husbandry of common laboratory animals.
**Requirements**:
- The incumbent must be a registered veterinary technician (RVT)
- The incumbent must have a patient, humane, and caring attitude towards all animals, combined with the strength and knowledge to handle them successfully and aware of the basic principles of sterility, quarantining, conditioning and epidemiological control
- Commitment to be at work on-time for each shift
- Strong communications skills are required (speak, read, and write in English).
- Ability to work independently and in a group as a member of the Animal Care Services team.
- Physically capable of performing the duties listed above.
- Knowledge of the Canadian Council of Animal Care (CCAC), the Canadian Association for Laboratory Science (CALAS), the Animals for Research Act and the University Animal Care Committee is an asset.
Employment Equity and Accessibility Statement
**Skills**
**Reference**
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