Pet Care Specialist Job description

Lafayette Veterinary Care Center strives to create a practice where employees can make a difference daily. Our goal is to maintain a fun, educational, and safe environment for employees, clients, and patients. We want to see our employees be their best by reaching their career goals at our hospital and resort.. We are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week in order to provide extraordinary care for our extraordinary clients and patients.

PAY: Starts at $11 per hour, weekends include a 20% pay increase to start pay, putting employees at $13.20 per hour on Saturdays and Sundays.

**Hours range between 5:30 am - 7 pm. This position does include some weekends.

Mandatory Requirments

• Assisting and supporting our groomers, veterinarians, and team

• Bathing of dogs using our flow system and policies

• General care for boarded patients including monitoring, feeding, watering, medicating, exercising, and cleaning up after patients (inside and out), cleaning suites, runs, and feline condos.

• Bringing animals to and from the kenneling areas during check-in and check-out times preparing these facility areas for the arrival and departure of patients.

• Client education

• Maintain a professional demeanor and use of medical terminology

• Desire to learn and an ability to adapt to changing situations

• Uphold our company’s core values

• Extraordinary customer service

• Standing, sitting, crouching, walking multiple times per day for care of pets

• Routinely check the safety and security of patient areas.

• Greet clients promptly and cheerfully, and provide useful and upbeat/positive, polite feedback regarding their pet’s care and stay.

• Restraining of pets for your safety and our team’s safety

• Keeping a team mentality at all times

We expect our employees to be fully engaged, team players who support each other by having positive attitudes and strong work ethics. All employees must have the desire to learn and be able to adapt to change. Our ideal employee goes out of their way to make a difference for pets as well as their owners to provide a one-of-a-kind experience.

Benefits include:

• Awesome co-workers and pets everywhere all day!

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

• Time off and vacation pay

• Pet benefits for employee pets

• 401K

• Life insurance

• Employee assistance program

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $11.00  per hour / $13.20 per hour (weekend pay)

Expected hours: 30 – 40 per week

Work Location: In-person

Please pick one of the following questions to answer in a cover letter submitted with your resume, in order to be considered for this position:

• How have you made a difference at your previous jobs?

• Is there anything you wish you would have done differently at a previous job? Explain what and why.

• You have a family member with a sick pet. Please explain as best you can what level of care and communication you would want. Please be as detailed as possible.