Job Description

If you are up for the challenge and would like to be considered for this position, we would like to hear from you.

POSITION: Animal Care Attendant - ACA1

JOB TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

LOCATION: Quesnel & District Branch

Quesnel, BC

CLOSING DATE: Open Until filled

Join the team! Our Quesnel & District Branch is looking for a full-time Animal Care Attendant with the flexibility to cover shifts on short notice - including weekdays, weekends and statutory holidays. Reporting to the Branch Manager, you bring energy and enthusiasm to a team environment while you will participate in all animal care duties and ensure that optimal levels of care are administered to the animals based on the Five Freedoms. You are an energetic team player, with good customer service skills. You also have as a minimum a basic knowledge of animals and animal welfare. You care deeply about animals and uphold the highest animal care standards.

What you will do:

• 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

You will have:

How to apply:

If you are interested in joining our Quesnel 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:

We welcome diversity, value differences, and foster inclusion in our employment practices. We invite applications from all qualified individuals who are philosophically aligned with our mission and guiding principles.

We thank you for your interest in the BC SPCA, however; only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No telephone calls please.

The BC SPCA is a Registered Charity BN 11881 9036 RR0001

Other details

• Pay Type Hourly

• Quesnel, BC, Canada