Animal Care Attendant - ACA1

Job summary

Provide daily care for shelter animals, including feeding, watering, exercise, enrichment, socialization, grooming, and transportation as needed. Maintain clean and sanitary facilities, monitor animal health and welfare, and keep required records up to date.

Job details

We welcome diversity, value differences, and foster inclusion in our employment practices. Find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion by reading our Foundational Principles on our website. We invite applications from all qualified individuals who are philosophically aligned with our mission, vision and values. The BC SPCA is a dynamic organization with facilities and services across the province of BC. Join an expanding team in an exciting time of change in an organization that makes a difference! Please read below for additional details and let us know if you have the skills and experience we are looking for by submitting your application. If you are up for the challenge and would like to be considered for this position, we would like to hear from you. The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA) is looking to fill the following career opportunity: POSITION: Animal Care Attendant STATUS: Permanent; Full-Time with benefits SHIFT: Tuesday to Saturday schedule, 8am - 5pm LOCATION: East Kootenay Animal Centre - Cranbrook, BC CLASSIFICATION: Exempt WAGE: Hourly CLOSING DATE: Open Until Filled About the Position: To ensure that optimal levels of care are administered to the animals based on the Five Freedoms. Provides primary care and support to all shelter based animals including: feeding and cleaning of kennels, socialization of animals and transportation of animals as may be required. Some specific duties: To maintain the entire physical plant in a clean, sanitary, and efficient manner on an ongoing basis and in a collaborative manner To ensure kennels, runs, and cat cages are kept in a manner that is best suited for the animal’s health and welfare as per the ShelterSense protocols To monitor the health and welfare of the animals through the maintenance of up-to-date kennel cards, recording information on whiteboard and daily logs, and completing daily welfare sheets To maintain animals on a proper diet ensuring daily feeding, watering, exercise, and enrichment To perform general bathing and grooming of animals To treat animals humanely, with compassion and concern, and in a manner consistent with the BC SPCA’s five freedoms To perform other duties as assigned Qualifications you need to have: High school diploma or equivalent Valid Class N or 5 BC Drivers’ License and driver’s abstract Strong desire to provide excellent customer service skills: patience, professional, positive attitude, attention to detail, adaptability Excellent communication skills both verbal and written Resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with colleagues, customers and volunteers Highly motivated self-starter who takes initiative with minimal supervision A sound knowledge of animals, their breeds, characteristics and common diseases Previous kennel or animal care experience will be considered an asset Demonstrable interest in all aspects of animal welfare Position is physically demanding and includes heavy lifting, pushing and pulling which requires an individual with the ability to maintain a level of fitness and endurance to fulfill the required duties Computer experience: Windows, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) The animals in our care require attention seven days a week, must be flexible and able to work weekdays, weekends and statutory holidays. Philosophical harmony with the vision, mission, and strategic directions of the BC SPCA. How to apply: If you are interested in joining our team and are legally entitled to work in Canada, we would like to hear from you. Click on apply now or use the link to apply https://spca.bc.ca/about-us/careers/ We are committed to a transparent, human-led hiring process. While we use technology to support application management, applications are not screened, scored, or ranked by AI systems. All hiring decisions are made by human hiring managers based on skills, experience, and alignment with the organizational values. We thank you for your interest in the BC SPCA, however; only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No emails or telephone calls, please. The BC SPCA is a Registered Charity BN 11881 9036 RR0001

What you’ll do

Provide daily care for shelter animals, including feeding, watering, exercise, enrichment, socialization, grooming, and transportation as needed. Maintain clean and sanitary facilities, monitor animal health and welfare, and keep required records up to date.

Requirements

A high school diploma or equivalent, a valid Class N or 5 BC driver's licence with a driver's abstract, and knowledge of animals, breeds, characteristics, and common diseases are required. Candidates should have strong customer service and communication skills, be adaptable and collaborative, be able to perform physically demanding work, and be available for weekday, weekend, and statutory holiday shifts; prior kennel or animal care experience is an asset.

Benefits

• Benefits

Listed skills

• Customer service · Preferred
• Teamwork · Preferred
• Attention to detail · Preferred
• Microsoft Office · Preferred
• Relationship Building · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Animal Care
• Animal Welfare
• Feeding and Watering
• Kennel Cleaning and Sanitation
• Animal Socialization
• Animal Exercise and Enrichment
• Bathing and Grooming
• Health and Welfare Monitoring
• Customer Service
• Written and Verbal Communication
• Teamwork
• Relationship Building
• Initiative
• Attention to Detail
• Microsoft Office
• Physical Fitness
• Communication
• Microsoft Excel
• Detail Oriented
• Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
• Microsoft Outlook
• Adaptability
• Positivity
• Self-Starter
• Patience
• Self-Motivation
• Proactivity
• Valid Driver's License
• Primary Care
• Compassion
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Lifting Ability
• Resourcefulness
• Irrigation (Landscaping And Agriculture)
• Animal Health
• Socialization
• Building Trust

Job areas

• Social Services
• Animal Care Attendant
• Animal Care Worker / Manager
• Pet Groomers and Animal Care Workers
• Animal Caretakers

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