The Role
Provides hands-on care for hospitalized, boarding, and daycare dogs and cats, including feeding, cleaning, exercising, monitoring, medication administration, basic grooming, safe handling, play supervision, and recordkeeping. Supports guest check-in and check-out, customer service, laundry, sanitation, and veterinary team needs. The role requires dependable teamwork, comfort working with animals in indoor and outdoor settings, and availability for day, evening, weekend, and holiday shifts.
Summary Generated by Built In
West Hills Animal Hospital & Emergency Center is looking for a compassionate, dependable Kennel Attendant to join our animal care team! If you're a true animal lover, enjoy hands-on work with dogs and cats, and thrive in a busy veterinary hospital environment, we'd love to meet you.
This can be a messy, active job, but it's incredibly rewarding for the right person. As a Kennel Attendant, you'll play an important role in providing exceptional care to our hospitalized, boarding, and daycare patients while maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for pets, clients, and our veterinary team.
We're looking for someone who is dependable, organized, comfortable with the physical and sometimes messy realities of animal care, and able to multitask safely in a fast-paced veterinary hospital with a high volume of patients and guests.
Previous experience working with animals, such as in a veterinary hospital, animal shelter, boarding facility, kennel, daycare, grooming facility, or other professional animal care setting, is strongly preferred.
Candidates must be 18 years of age or older and have availability for day and evening shifts, weekends, and holidays.
Please note: This is a permanent position. We are seeking candidates interested in long-term employment and are not hiring for seasonal opportunities.
Some of the responsibilities you will own in this role:
- Kennel & Animal Care Responsibilities
- Provide daily care for hospitalized and boarding animals, including feeding, cleaning, exercising, and monitoring their well-being
- Walk and safely handle dogs of different breeds, sizes, and temperaments
- Maintain clean, sanitary, and organized kennels, cages, patient rooms, and animal care areas
- Assist with bathing, brushing, nail trims, and basic grooming
- Observe animal health and behavior and promptly report any concerns to the veterinary team
- Administer medications and treatments as directed
- Assist with safely handling animals during examinations and procedures when needed
- Maintain accurate records of patient care and treatments
- Complete dishes, laundry, and other daily cleaning and sanitation responsibilities
- Dog Daycare & Boarding Responsibilities
- Supervise one-on-one play sessions with dogs of all breeds, sizes, and temperaments
- Provide enrichment, attention, exercise, and socialization to daycare and boarding guests
- Prepare and administer meals and treats according to owner or hospital instructions
- Assist with guest check-in and check-out for boarding and daycare services
- Interact with pet owners and provide friendly, professional customer service
- Maintain hospital laundry and transport laundry between our facilities as needed
- Provide animal care in both indoor and outdoor environments, rain or shine
- Support the veterinary and hospital teams with additional tasks as needed
What You'll Bring:
- Genuine love of animals and commitment to their care and well-being
- Dependable, organized, and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working with dogs and cats of all breeds, sizes, and temperaments
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Previous animal care experience preferred, but not required
- Must be 18 years of age or older
Benefits:
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedules
- 401K with company match
- Training and career development
About
Innovetive Petcare owns and operates veterinary practices across the country. Our clinics benefit from our tools, resources, and a dedicated support team to help veterinary practices prosper and grow. We run a successful business so our veterinarians can focus on providing exceptional patient care. We want our veterinarians and staff to enjoy a better work-life balance, a strong, supportive community, and ongoing training and career development.At Innovetive Petcare, it all begins with an unparalleled team. From the veterinarians, veterinary technicians, practice managers, and administrative staff at our clinics to the driven support team in our home office, our team is passionate about pet health. We are a culture-first company, working to redefine the veterinary lifestyle to allow professionals to advance through their veterinary medicine careers without burning out. We don’t just talk about it; we live it!Equal Opportunity Employer Policy Innovetive Petcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We are proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate based on age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, or any other non-merit factor. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Skills Required
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Availability for day and evening shifts, weekends, and holidays
- Genuine love of animals and commitment to their care and well-being
- Dependable, organized, and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working with dogs and cats of all breeds, sizes, and temperaments
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Previous animal care experience in a veterinary hospital, shelter, boarding, kennel, daycare, grooming, or similar setting
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The Company
What We Do
We make life easy for veterinary practices. By assisting with the business side of your practice, veterinarians and teams are empowered to provide exceptional patient care. A fulfilling workplace culture is a critical foundation for hospital growth: happier employees do better work, which leads to better patient care. Exceeding client expectations transform into business results. By providing great benefits and career development opportunities, we can help your staff explore their passions and enjoy a healthy work-life balance. Because of this, your practice will be positioned to provide better medicine to even more patients.
