Kennel Attendant
Description
CanyonVet Canyon Lake is hiring a full-time Kennel Technician.
Job Overview:
As a Kennel Technician, you will provide essential care for animals in our facility, ensuring their health, safety, and comfort while maintaining a clean, organized environment. You'll work closely with the veterinary team and deliver excellent service, contributing to the overall success of our practice.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Animal Care: Walk dogs in all weather conditions, feed and water animals, and bathe (including nail trimming, ear cleaning, and expressing anal glands).
- Cleaning & Sanitation: Clean kennels, runs, and facility areas. Assist with general facility housekeeping.
- Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records of feeding and other activities in veterinary software.
- Safety & Compliance: Follow OSHA safety regulations and protocols to ensure a safe environment.
- Customer Service: Provide professional service, maintaining communication with pet owners and team members.
- Team Support: Collaborate with team members to follow procedures, policies, and ensure quality care for patients. Participate in team meetings and hospital functions.
Physical & Environmental Requirements:
- Physical Demands: Bending, stooping, walking, lifting (up to 50 lbs), and animal restraint, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Safety Awareness: Maintain alertness, observe animals for signs of illness, and adhere to safety procedures.
- Exposure: Noise from barking dogs and risk of bites or scratches while handling animals.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Must have experience with animal care.
- Strong communication, writing, and reading skills for accurate documentation and client interaction.
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions with a focus on animal welfare.
- Compassionate, professional, and able to work well in a team environment.
- Willingness to learn and follow hospital policies and ethical guidelines.
- Must be available to work weekends on a rotating basis.
About the Hospital
Located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, CanyonVet Canyon Lake is a full-service veterinary hospital that offers both veterinary care and pet boarding services. We are Fear Free ® Certified.
Benefits – our care in action
Thrive offers a suite of benefits to support team members’ emotional, physical, professional, and financial wellbeing. In addition to our health and life insurance, and short- and long- term disability plans, we offer eligible team members:
- Competitive pay
- 401(k) with employer match
- Mental health resources, including 24/7 access to Lyra Health
- Paid parental leave
- Purr-ental leave for when you adopt a pet
- Employer-sponsored childcare and elder care
- Personalized care for every family-forming journey
- FREE CE courses
- Pet perks and veterinary service discounts
- Student loan management tools and assistance
Provide your best care with more bridges and less barriers.
We listen to your needs and then meet them. Through training and free CE experiences, your career development can flourish. And in our locally rooted, nationally connected community, you’ll be able to make connections, access opportunities and find support with ease.
Support for you is as vital as the support you provide.
You’ll Thrive With Us
At Thrive, you have the opportunity to develop your career in a way that best suits your goals. Take advantage of our comprehensive learning and skill-building programs to enhance your expertise. You can build your skills and earn credentials through:
- Our vast, diverse, and free library of continuing education courses - ThriveU
- Live, virtual interactive workshops to develop valuable leadership skills
- A program designed to teach you the fundamentals of running a pet hospital
- Move into any specialty, hospital type, or environment – across the nation.
- Leadership training for a thriving and long career in the veterinary profession.
About Thrive
Thrive Pet Healthcare is one of the first veterinary services offering a comprehensive continuum of care for pets’ primary, specialty, and acute needs. Through a nationwide community of over 360 veterinary providers, and an industry-leading membership program, Thrive Pet Healthcare provides personalized, accessible care through every stage of a pet’s life and health. Founded by veterinarians, the organization provides industry-first benefits for practice staff while elevating privately held veterinary hospitals with innovative service and technology solutions. By focusing on the needs of care providers and professional collaboration, Thrive Pet Healthcare is supporting the well-being of the industry and raising the national bar for veterinary excellence.
Thrive Pet Healthcare is united by our mission to create the future of pet well-being through medical excellence, innovative technology, and a connected community of teams and partners. We exist to nurture both pets and people through meaningful relationships and exceptional veterinary care.
Our Support Office teams power that mission by supporting our hospitals through operational excellence, innovative programs, people-centered culture, and forward-thinking business solutions — all while having plenty of fun along the way.
We nurture pets & people through meaningful relationships and exceptional pet care—and we are united by a shared set of values.
- Service – delivering exceptional service
- Empathy – leading with care
- Accountability – achieve meaningful outcomes
- Joy – be a source of light
- Exploration – learn to fuel growth
- Team – connect for success