Night Kennel Assistant

Kernow Vet Group; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 10,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A veterinary practice in the East Midlands is seeking a Night Kennel Assistant to join their team. This full-time role involves caring for animals overnight and maintaining a clean environment in the wards. Applicants must have prior experience with animal care and be self-motivated. In addition to a competitive salary, benefits include generous annual leave, enhanced family policies, and opportunities for learning and development. The role is an essential part of ensuring the highest standards of patient care.

Benefits

6.6 weeks annual leave

Birthday leave

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Cycle to work scheme

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Learning and development opportunities

Discounted staff pet care

Qualifications

• Previous experience in animal care is essential.
• Self-motivated individuals will thrive in this role.

Responsibilities

• Caring for the animals on a nightly basis.
• Maintaining cleanliness of areas used by animals.
• Conducting basic care including temperature, pulse, and respiration checks.

Skills

Previous experience with animal care

Self-motivated

Job description

We are hiring for a Night Kennel Assistant to join our team!

Pride Veterinary Centre offers a range of state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.Our diagnostics and treatments are second to none and we have many highly trained and experienced colleagues to ensure that our patients receive the very best treatment.

We strive to deliver world class patient care and our fantastic facilities provide a superb care environment, including 13 consultation rooms, 7 hospital wards, 5 theatres, full advanced imaging suite, 3 ultrasound rooms, an endoscopy suite, hydrotherapy pool and treadmills and dedicated chemo & radio-iodine treatment rooms define the setting.

The team

Our kennel assistant team are at the hub of the veterinary hospital at Scarsdale Vets in Pride Park to help care for the unwell patients.

The hospital ward team care for both primary and referral patients from simple to complex cases so there are a variety of patient needs to accommodate. They come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments, so every night is different to the previous one.

The night team is friendly, supportive and passionate about providing the highest standard of care to our in-patients. We are always expanding our knowledge and learning new skills as training is important to us as a practice. Supporting our nursing colleagues, you will also interact with referral, first opinion vets, interns and residents.

About the role

Due to an internal move we have an opening as a Kennel Assistant.Working in the wards at Pride Veterinary Centre, this is a full-time contract on a one week on, two weeks off basis covering 6:00pm – 8:00am.

Most of us love animals of all shapes and sizes but we do require applicants to clearly evidence their previous experience of working with the four-legged ones. We have been tasked to ensure the safety and comfort of all the animals in our care and we need to do that to the highest possible level, so having some similar animal experience would be a true asset.

• Caring for the animals on a nightly basis is a key element of the role.
• Maintain the cleanliness of any areas the animals have been in contact with.
• Being directly responsible for maintaining a high level of cleanliness within the ward environment, such as cleaning kennels, exercising patients, washing bowls, laundry, stock maintenance, animal handling, basic care including TPR (temperature, pulse and respiration checks), grooming, feeding and assisting the veterinary team, this is an active role.

Required skills and experience

• Previous experience with animal care
• Self-motivated

Would be good to have

• TPR experience

In addition to a competitive salary, you will benefit from:

• 6.6Weeks annual leave
• Additional annual leave for your birthday which will be added to your holiday allowance
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/ paternity/ adoption/ shared parental and surrogacy pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
• Non-accidental injury support
• Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy
• Pawsome Benefits - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100's of retailers
• Discounted staff pet care

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