Company Description

Minutes outside of Austin, Cedar Park Animal Clinic is a well-established practice that has provided comprehensive care to companion animals for over forty-five years. We pride ourselves on delivering professional and courteous service while promoting responsible pet education. Our full range of offerings includes medical, surgical, and dental care. We prioritize giving back to the community, and function as a referral hospital for other local clinics.

We specialize in wellness care, internal medicine, and dentistry. Cedar Park Animal Clinic is proud to offer progressive medicine technology including but not limited to heartworm prevention, parasite control, vaccinations, microchip implantation, and nutritional counseling. Our in-house services are extensive with services in cardiology, ophthalmology, neurology, dermatology, endocrinology, and more. With the latest tools in veterinary technology, we offer a wide range of surgeries (soft tissue, elective, laser, & orthopedic), radiology, therapeutic laser therapy, ultrasound, and endoscopy.

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Job Description

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

The kennel tech is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating, and cleaning of our patients in the hospital and boarding facility. This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating patients. You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies, helping with post-operative patients, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams. You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care. You may be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with:

• Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods.
• Proper methods of animal restraint.
• Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment with skill and efficiency. 
• Perform moderately heavy physical labor (large dogs, bags of litter, pet foods, etc).
• Ability to sympathetically and patiently attend to sick, scared and injured animals. 
• Ability to learn to administer medications and to recognize abnormal conditions.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of the job. 

Additional Information

We offer our staff:

Pay: $12-16/hr depending on experience

• Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental, vision, liability, 401k & 401K matching program, life & supplemental insurance, HSA, & FSA) 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time for ALL Employees 
• Paid Bereavement Program 
• Paid Parental Leave Program  
• Competitive Compensation  
• Continuing Education Allowance (applies to licensed/registered/certified roles)
• Tuition Assistance Program 
• Access to a CVA/CVT/CVPM Partnership through Penn Foster 
• Career Development Opportunities 
• Referral Bonus Program for most positions! 
• Additional Benefits May Also Be Available (i.e. Personal Pet Discounts, Holiday Pay, Uniform Allowance, Bonuses etc) 
• Hiring eligibility may be contingent to a candidate authorizing and completing a satisfactory background check. 

*Note - some benefits may only be available to or vary slightly for full time employment status vs part time status.

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