Overview
Company Description
Minutes outside of Austin, Cedar Park Animal Clinic is a well-established practice that has provided comprehensive care to companion animals for over forty-five years. We pride ourselves on delivering professional and courteous service while promoting responsible pet education. Our full range of offerings includes medical, surgical, and dental care. We prioritize giving back to the community, and function as a referral hospital for other local clinics.
We specialize in wellness care, internal medicine, and dentistry. Cedar Park Animal Clinic is proud to offer progressive medicine technology including but not limited to heartworm prevention, parasite control, vaccinations, microchip implantation, and nutritional counseling. Our in-house services are extensive with services in cardiology, ophthalmology, neurology, dermatology, endocrinology, and more. With the latest tools in veterinary technology, we offer a wide range of surgeries (soft tissue, elective, laser, & orthopedic), radiology, therapeutic laser therapy, ultrasound, and endoscopy.
Cedar Park Animal Clinic serves Cedar Park, Texas, and the greater Austin metro. Cedar Park is a thriving community in one of America’s most popular, growing areas. The city provides a strong local economy, excellent public schools, and suburban comfort in proximity to Austin. Cedar Park is a tech hub where major companies including Facebook, Amazon, and Apple occupy office centers. There is no shortage of entertainment offerings with the H-E-B Cedar Park Center hosting NHL hockey and concerts year-round. Texas’s climate allows you to explore the outdoors with beautiful Lake Travis and an abundance of parks and nature attractions with hiking, swimming, and biking. Head twenty minutes south to Austin where the vibrant music and arts scenes and culinary experiences are endless. Bring your furry friend along to one of the most dog-friendly cities in the country!
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Job duties include, but are not limited to:
The kennel tech is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating and cleaning of our patients in hospital, and our clients in the boarding facility. This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating. You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies, helping with post-operative patients, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams. You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite, behavior and any issue that may arise while the animal is in our care. You will be trained to clean and sterilize surgical instruments.
We are looking for someone with:
Knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting methods.
Proper methods of animal restraint.
Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment with skill and efficiency.
Perform moderately heavy physical labor (large dogs, bags of litter, pet foods, etc).
Ability to sympathetically and patiently attend to sick, scared and injured animals.
Ability to learn to administer medications and to recognize abnormal conditions.
Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
Maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of the job.
We offer our staff:
Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental, vision, liability, 401k & 401K matching program, life & supplemental insurance, HSA, & FSA)
Employee Assistance Program
Paid Vacation and Sick Time for ALL Employees
Paid Bereavement Program
Paid Parental Leave Program
Competitive Compensation
Continuing Education Allowance (applies to licensed/registered/certified roles)
Tuition Assistance Program
Access to a CVA/CVT/CVPM Partnership through Penn Foster
Career Development Opportunities
Referral Bonus Program for most positions!
Additional Benefits May Also Be Available (i.e. Personal Pet Discounts, Holiday Pay, Uniform Allowance, Bonuses etc)
*Note – some benefits may only be available to or vary slightly for full time employment status vs part time status.
WE ARE A DRUG-FREE, SMOKE-FREE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
Company Policy & Federal & State Laws Forbid Discrimination Because of Age, Color, Race, Religion, Sex, Disability, Sexual Orientation or National Origin
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:The kennel tech is responsible for the care, feeding, medicating and cleaning of our patients in hospital, and our clients in the boarding facility. This job involves cleaning, laundry, bathing, feeding, walking dogs, and medicating. You are responsible for restocking hospital supplies, helping with post-operative patients, assisting doctors and assistants with animal restraint and exams. You will be responsible for proper recordkeeping of medications, special foods, appetite,
