Animal Care Attendant/Kennel

At the Humane Society for Hamilton County, caring for animals isn’t just a job – it’s our passion. The impact we make is life-changing for the animals in our care and the people who love them. If you would like to spend your work days with animals in our beautiful new state-of-the-art facility and make a difference, the Kennel Attendant position may be the perfect fit for you!

The purpose of our Kennel Attendant is to provide support to the Animal Care Manager and oversight of the daily care of the animals in the facility. The Kennel staff will provide exceptional care to all shelter animals, in regards to cleanliness, handling, and ensuring proper care. This role serves as a liaison to all staff to ensure staff and volunteers work directly with the animals to provide enrichment, identify concerns behavioral or medical and communicate with proper manager.

Duties & Responsibilities

Kennel Staff is responsible for coordinating the daily activities including, but not limited to:

• Daily walk through of the kennel areas checking each animal individually for any abnormal activity such as vomiting, diarrhea, or blood in the cage or run
• Reports all abnormal activity to supervisors immediately. (Ensure to place a note in the medical binders
• Recognizes emergency situations, enlisting the aid of supervisors or veterinarians
• Feeds and waters animals according to schedules and protocols
• Cleans and maintains kennel area of facility, in such a manner as to provide an odor free and low stress environment for the animals
• Cleans and disinfects cages, runs and yards as needed using hoses and spray bottles of disinfectant
• Cleans and disinfects all food and water bowls
• Picks up soiled bedding and moves it to laundry area
• Places clean bedding in run with animals
• Administers medications to those animals that require medications when medical staff need assistance
• Handles all animals accordingly
• Works outside all year round, part of the job requires working without the aid of air conditioning for periods of time
• Restraint of animals as needed
• Maintains all HSHC equipment
• Provides friendly and professional interactions with clients and animals while doing showings for potential adoptions to determine if an adoption can move forward
• Ensures to provide exceptional customer service and customer satisfaction at all times
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
• Safely place a leash on dogs and transfer them between cages and locations and walk them outdoors for exercise and to eliminate. Keep pets safely under your control at all times
• Performs additonal duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Applicants must embrace our No-Kill Philosophy
• Be a self-starter with a lot of initiative, problem solving skills & the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Be an excellent communicator—both written and verbal
• Be a natural people-person & “cheerleader” who positively motivates others & has a knack for diplomacy
• Be flexible to work some nights and weekends while providing reliable transportation
• Be able to excel in a high paced work environment where you are surrounded by the distractions of animal sounds, smells and their respective allergens
• Experience in behavior modification and training programs (Meet your Match, SAFER Testing, etc.)
• Be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. without health risk

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at the Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC). HSHC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Holidays
• Weekends as needed

Experience:

• Animal Care: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person