Animal Care Assistant

1 week ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE04: £26,093 to 28,778 per annum pro rata**

**CMVM / Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies**

**Part-time: 7.5 hours per week**

**Open-ended (permanent)**

**The Opportunity**:
**Are you passionate about animal care and ready to make a real difference?**
This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of a leading veterinary and teaching hospital, where your work directly supports the health and wellbeing of a wide range of animals.

We’re proud of our dynamic and compassionate team of vets, nurses, and assistants—all united by a shared commitment to delivering exceptional patient care. Now, we’re looking for someone equally dedicated to join our Animal Care Team.

**This is a hands-on, fast-paced position that plays a vital role in the care of our hospitalised patients. You’ll be involved in a variety of essential tasks, including**:

- Cleaning and maintaining kennels, wards and clinical areas to the highest hygiene standards
- Supporting hospital’s infection control protocols
- Feeding and grooming inpatients
- Walking dogs and providing enrichment
- Assisting vets and nurses with procedures involving dogs, cats, and exotic speciesManaging laundry and general patient care duties

**Training & Support**

We offer a comprehensive 6-8 week training programme to help you settle into the role. You’ll normally shadow our friendly and experienced team during standard daytime hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm) to build your confidence and skills. Any hours worked beyond your contracted time during training will be paid as overtime.

**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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**Application Information**
- CVCover letter

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:

- A competitive salary
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our **staff benefits page**(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

**Championing equality, diversity and inclusion**

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.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages**(opens new browser tab)

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