Animal Care Assistant

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE04 £23,144 to £25,138 per annum plus 2.5 hours paid contractual overtime per week (£24, 962 to £27,112 per annum)**

**(A revised salary range for this grade of £24,533 (£26,460 with contractual overtime) to £27,181 (£29,316 with contractual overtime) is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)**

**Centre for Medicine and Veterinary Medincine, Royal (Dick) School of VeterinaryStudies, Hospital for Small Animals**

**Open ended, full time 35 hours/week (plus 2.5 hours paid contractual overtime per week)**

**The Opportunity**:
This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone with a passion for animals and the drive to make a difference. We are a large veterinary and teaching hospital with a great team of vets, nurses and assistants who are all committed to animal health and welfare. This is a demanding role and requires dedication, proactivity, flexibility, a resilient work ethic and a strong belief in delivering the highest standard of patient care.

This role will be primarily based in our dermatology service; however, you will also help in other areas of the hospital including inpatient care in our wards. The Dermatology Service offers a professional and prompt service to the referring vets and clients, seeing any skin problems that might occur in all companion animals, exotic species, equine and farm animals. Our services include a video-otoscope for viewing and treating external and middle ear conditions and we offer CO2 laser surgery for foot, skin and ear conditions.

Our team is led by specialist dermatology clinicians, specialists-in-training, and our dedicated dermatology veterinary nurse. We have a full 6-8 week training programme where you will shadow our friendly and experienced staff to learn the ropes.

This post is a 37.5 hour per week contract, working 7.5 hour shifts Monday to Friday.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Experience working with animals in a veterinary setting is essential.
- Ability to work alone as well as part of a team is essential.
- Excellent communication skills are essential to this role.
- Full, clean driving licence is essential.

**HfSA Staff benefits include**:

- Staff discount for pet treatment.
- Amazing onsite perks:

- Two on site canteens.
- Additional shift cover opportunities are available, accruing paid overtime for additional hours worked.
- Holiday entitlement of 36 days + 4 days public holiday per annum for full time staff (pro rata).

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

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