Job Description

Job Summary

Love animals, a checklist, and leaving a place better than you found it? We're seeking a dedicated and compassionate individual to join us as a Boarding/Kennel Attendant, a role with potential to grow into a role as a Veterinary Assistant. You'll care for dogs and cats, follow enrichment plans, and help our medical team by keeping meticulous notes, while also being the go to person for biosecurity and cleaning across the clinic. It isn't a glamorous role, but it is absolutely essential to the well being of our hospital. When you do this job well, you protect every patient, client, and teammate who walks through our doors.

We're staffed with a collaborative team who have a strong focus on patient comfort, client communication, and gold standard medicine. This is a casual position to start.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care Support

: handling and restraint; patient monitoring, prep/sanitize treatment areas; set up equipment and supplies; enter weights, appetite, eliminations, and behaviours in the record under DVM/RVT direction

Boarding & Enrichment:

Feed, water, medicate as directed, schedule walks, litter/kennel care, enrichment plans, timely updates to pet parents & patient files as directed.

Cleanliness & Biosecurity:

Follow daily/weekly cleaning checklists; laundry/stocking; maintain treatment; reception; boarding spaces; and common areas (floors, doors/handles, bathrooms, high-touch surfaces.

Safety & Welfare:

Fear Free/low-stress handling; flag changes in condition; follow infection control policies.

What Success Looks Like

confident, low stress handling is consistent kennels/treatment spaces meet or exceed cleanliness standards every shift. checklists completed on time with accurate, concise notes. you ask early for help and proactively help teammates clients and colleagues experience kindness, professionalism, and follow through. you can work a rotating schedule, including evenings/weekends/holidays as needed

Qualifications

experience handling dogs/cats in clinic/shelter/boarding/daycare compassionate, observant, dependable; comfortable with cleaning tasks and bodily fluids able to stand or walk most of the shift; lift carry up toe 50lb, and handle large/energetic pets clear communicator; basic computer skills

We Offer

structured training with clear SOPs and checklist supportive, kind team culture (we coach, we don't shame) growth pathways uniform/PPE provided staff pet discounts

Hours & Availability

Rotating shifts between approximately 8am-9:30pm, including weekends/holidays Reliability is essential, medical and boarding patients are on a time-sensitive schedules
Please attach your resume & cover letter. Thank you for your interest!

Job Type: Casual

Pay: $17.20-$20.00 per hour

Application question(s):

Are you comfortable working with, and handling, cats & dogs?
Work Location: In person