Pet Care Assistant (PCA )

Qualifications

• Integrity & Trust

• Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb as well as manipulate (lift, carry, move) up to 50 pounds

• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm-hand-finger dexterity with the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard and operate equipment

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Responsibilities

• The Pet Care Assistant works with the veterinary medical team to provide and prepare for the best medical care of pets

• Prepare the treatment room for examination of pets and all necessary medical item and supplies (e.g. vaccinations, fecal loops, slides, etc.) for the veterinarian and/or veterinary technician

• Set up fecals, smears, and skin scrapings as allowed by state rules and regulations

• Serve as support to the Client Services Coordinator, Veterinary Assistant and Veterinary Technician

• Hold or restrain pets during examination, treatment, or inoculation

• Prepare routine in-house laboratory tests (e.g. canine heartworm, feline leukemia, FIV, and canine parvovirus) as allowed by state rules and regulations

• Monitor the comfort of hospitalized patients

• Ensure the comfort of hospitalized patients by "walking", exercising, feeding, and cleaning cages and pet (when approved by the veterinarian or veterinary technician)

• Bathe and dip pets when necessary to treat dermatological conditions (when advised by veterinarian or veterinary technician

• Clean the surgical suite and instruments

• Ensure cleanliness of the hospital including but not limited to housekeeping such as laundry, dishes, mopping, cage cleaning, trash collection and removal and instrument cleaning as outlined by hospital protocols