• Animal Caretaker I - Large Animal Hospital

    Texas A&M University System (College Station, TX)


    Job Title

     

    Animal Caretaker I - Large Animal Hospital

     

    Agency

     

    Texas A&M University

     

    Department

     

    Vet Med-Teaching Hospital

     

    Proposed Minimum Salary

     

    Commensurate

     

    Job Location

     

    College Station, Texas

     

    Job Type

     

    Staff

    Job Description

    Glimpse of the Job

     

    Join the Texas A&M Large Animal Teaching Hospital (http://vethospital.tamu.edu/large-animal-hospital) and help support the future of veterinary medicine while providing compassionate care to large animal patients.

     

    As an Animal Caretaker I, you’ll support daily patient care by feeding, watering, grooming, and exercising animals. You’ll maintain clean and safe housing environments, assist veterinary technicians, and help transport animals and supplies. You’ll also play a key role in teaching hospital protocols to veterinary students and ensuring proper animal handling and husbandry.

     

    If you’re passionate about animal care and want to make a difference in a teaching hospital environment, this is the role for you!

     

    What you need to know

     

    Salary: $15.85/hour.

     

    Schedule: This is a full-time position with a schedule of Thursday through Monday, 7:00am to 3:20pm. The selected candidate will be expected to work the shift outlined above. This role may require working alternate shifts, holidays, or “on-call” duty.

     

    *Please note: Persons in this position are considered essential when the University declares an emergency, campus closure, class cancellations, etc., and are therefore required to report to work and remain on duty unless/until relieved by the direct supervisor.

    Minimum Required Qualifications

    + High School diploma/GED or equivalent combination of education and experience.

    The well-qualified candidate will also possess:

    + 1 year of experience in handling and care of large animals, including, but not limited to, horses, cattle, sheep and goats.

    + 1 year of large animal handling and/or husbandry experience.

    + Knowledge of the different kinds of patient’s feeds.

    + Usage and knowledge of different types of disinfectants.

    + Knows the PPE protocols for the different hospital wards.

    + Bio security awareness.

     

    What you need to know

     

    Apply! A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended and will help in our review. You may upload them on the application under the CV/Resume section.

    Responsibilities

    + Patient Care: Checks inventory of feed, cleaning supplies, buckets, and bowls. Cleans, beds, and disinfects stalls and animal housing areas with unrestrained patients in them. Maintains barn, feed room, and shavings room cleanliness. Assists in feeding and watering patients. Cleans and disinfects treatment rooms, windows, ceilings, and cabinets. Empties manure cans and trash receptacles daily (scrubbing and disinfecting). Observes and reports concerns with patients in the wards. Brushes, bathes and exercises animals as directed. Handles and restrains animals as needed. Assists veterinary technicians as needed. Transports animals and supplies as requested. Operates a forklift and university vehicles. Turns out TAMU owned animals to their paddocks.

    + General Duties: Communicates regularly with other services in the hospital and team members. Provides safe patient handling and husbandry. Reads and responds appropriately to animal behavior (aggressive, frightened). Places pharmacy orders for restocking needs. Maintains care and service of equipment.

    + Teaching and Clinical Research: Helps DVM students and student workers understand the disinfecting protocols of each hospital ward.

    + Required Training, Compliance, And Administrative: Remains current with various TAMU and department specific procedures and completes training courses. Maintains appropriate rabies prophylaxis.

     

    Why Texas A&M University?

     

    Texas A&M University is committed to enriching the learning and working environment by promoting a culture that respects all perspectives, talents & lived experiences. We are a prestigious university with strong traditions, core values (https://www.tamu.edu/about/coreValues.html) , and a community of caring and collaboration.  Amenities associated with a major university, such as sporting and cultural events, state-of-the-art recreation facilities, the Bush Library and Museum, and much more await you.  Experience all that a big city has to offer but with a reasonable cost-of-living and no long commutes.

     

    + Medical, (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/medical/) prescription drug, dental, (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/dental/) vision, life and AD&D, (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/life-add/) flexible spending accounts , and long-term disability insurance (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/long-term-disability/) with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums

    + 12-15 days (https://employees.tamu.edu/employee-relations/leave/index.html) of annual paid holidays

    + Up to eight hours of paid sick leave (https://employees.tamu.edu/employee-relations/leave/paid/sick.html)  and at least  eight hours of paid vacation (https://employees.tamu.edu/employee-relations/leave/paid/vacation.html)   each month

    + Automatic enrollment in the  Teacher Retirement System of Texas (https://www.trs.texas.gov/Pages/Homepage.aspx)

    + Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time (https://flourish.tamu.edu/wellness-release-time/)

    + Professional Development: All employees have access to free   LinkedIn Learning (https://linkedinlearning.tamu.edu/)  training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more

    + Educational release time and tuition assistance (https://livingwell.tamu.edu/employee-tuition-assistance)  for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee

    + Living Well, (https://livingwell.tamu.edu/) a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees

     

    Instructions to Applicants: Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume’ or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.

     

    All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

     

    Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.