Animal Care Specialist - Animal Rescue Shelter

Job Description

Job Description

Do you love animals?    We Care Animal Rescue is looking for compassionate animal lovers for our Animal Care Specialists .  As an Animal Care Specialist, you are key members of the Shelter since you’ll ensure the animals are healthy by providing needed care and medications.

We Care Animal Rescue is a private non-profit organization established in 1982. Our shelter serves as a refuge for homeless animals in the Napa Valley. We foster and promote the general welfare of animals by caring for these animals, finding them homes, tending to the medically and behaviorally challenged, and educating the public on animal welfare. Their care, comfort and well-being are our top priority. We are funded entirely by private donations and fundraising efforts. Learn more about us at:

Compensation: $18.00 per hour.

Schedule and Hours: This is a full time; permanent position

Responsibilities:

Animal Care:

• Reviews medication list and detailed notes
• Checks charts for special care notes and incorporates them in daily schedule
• Prepares medicine and administers to animals
• Performs injectable medications to animals
• Administers subcutaneous fluids
• Triages sick or injured animals
• Sets up food for animals in and outside of the facility; checks animals for general health and behavior while animals are eating
• Handles animals properly, humanely, and with compassion
• Ensures the cleanliness of the interior and exterior animal enclosures

Safety:

• Able to read animal body language
• Complies to high standards of safety throughout the organization
• Maintains files and records

Other Duties:

• Provides courteous, prompt and responsive service to visitors, volunteers and general public
• Assists in training volunteers
• Collaborative team member; provides assistance when needed

Experience and Skills:

• Must Love Animals! 
• Passionate for the mission and goals of We Care Animal Rescue
• Must be able to prepare and administer medications to animals
• Able to perform injectable medications to animals
• Must be able to administer subcutaneous fluids
• Experience with triaging sick or injured animals
• Minimum of six months’ experience working with animals, either personally or professionally
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Able to work flexible days and hours, including evening shifts, weekends and holidays
• Able to read animal body language; understands how to work with fearful or aggressive animals
• Ability to stay focused, professional and calm in a fast paced, emotionally-charged environment
• Demonstrates accuracy, thoroughness, neatness and dependability to produce work within acceptable standards
• Experience and compassion for domestic animals
• Good customer service skills
• Able to manage multiple tasks in a busy environment; able to adjust to changing deadlines and priorities
• Able to work independently and as a member of a team
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Possession of a current, valid California drivers’ license and with a clean safety record; carry auto insurance
• Able to pull and/or push items weighing up to 20 pounds and occasionally up to 40 pounds

To Apply:

Please email your resume and a cover letter addressing why you are a great fit for this role; please put "Animal Care Specialist" in the subject line.