Animal Care Technician - Phoenix, United States - Virginia B Jontes Foundation
Description
SUMMARY:
The Animal Care Technician provides daily care, enrichment, and promotes the safety and health of our pets.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Follows established disease control protocols to clean, disinfect, and sanitize kennels, equipment, walkways, general areas, and other jobrelated item daily.
- Ensures all animals are adequately fed, provided water, as well as housed and cared for within the Five Freedoms or Animal Welfare guidelines.
- Handle animals humanely sand safely using safety equipment if necessary.
- Be able to recognize signs of illness or behavior changes and update the appropriate team.
- Cultivates positive client, volunteer, and coworker relations through professional, courteous, and educational interactions.
- Provides quality customer service to clients, volunteers, and staff while actively promoting our mission, services, programs, and events.
- Provides our animal population with sufficient daily exercise and time outside of their kennels.
- Assist clients with adoptions; facilitates client and animal interactions to ensure safe and pleasant experience.
- Complete daily tasks as outlined on our Daily ACT Task Sign Off sheet.
- Creates and maintains necessary animal records and data entry.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- 6 months working/volunteering with domestic animals in an animal shelter, veterinary hospital, or another animal facility preferred
NOTE:
Any applicable volunteer or work experience should be listed and include hours worked and job duties.
COMPETENCIES:
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Ethics
- Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
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Adaptability
- Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
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Attendance/Punctuality
- Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; Arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
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Dependability
- Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
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Teamwork
- Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Regularly required to stand, walk on all types of surfaces, sometimes slippery and/or uneven and rough.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50lbs and perform duties that require lifting, bending, and stooping.
- Working with and/or around others often and will experience frequent interruptions.
- Environmental factors can be indoors or outdoors and working in the extreme heat of Arizona summers.
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