Animal Care Assistant (Part Time With No Benefits) - Part-time

h2About the Department/h2pundefinedspan style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" id="isPasted"Responsible for the daily care of animals; provides appropriate food and water; grooms, bathes, and exercises animals; monitors the behavior and health of animals; reports health, behavior or temperament issues to supervisor; and performs general housekeeping of shelter./spanbr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"This position will work at the location listed below:/spanbr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"strong style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"Animal Care amp; Controlbrspan style=" color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"5125 Harding Pl/span/strong/strongbrspan style=" color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"Nashville, TN 37211/span/strongbr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"strong style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"span style=" color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"span style=" color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"strong style=" font-weight: 700; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"If you have any questions about this position please contact MPHD HR at (615)-340-5640.nbsp;/strong/strong/strong/span/span/strong/strong/strongbr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"br/undefined/ph2Position Duties/h2pul style="padding-left: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3pt; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" id="isPasted"li style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Perform animal care and related duties, such as feeding, cleaning, exercising, and monitoring the behavior and health of animals in shelter custody.nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Responsible for the daily care of animals, including providing appropriate food and water, as well as basic grooming and bathing; cleans animal cages, runs and performs general housekeeping of shelter./lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Assists shelter patrons, animal control officers and outreach staff with animal handling, to include transferring and relocating animals from vehicles, cages and housing units.nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Monitor animals and immediately reports health, behavior or temperament issues to supervisor.nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Assist with animal intake, evaluation and medical treatments as directed, including disease prevention and reduction efforts./lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Maintain animal care reports and documentation./lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Maintain daily log sheets and inventories, completes intake and care reports, and prepares related reports or record keeping as required.nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Responds to patron inquiries related to animal health education and related programs; provides humane education pamphlets or materials. nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Must have and be able to demonstrate knowledge of: -basic animal welfare standards, including safe animal handling procedures for domestic and wild animals. --proper use, secure storage, and disposal of lethal chemicals, syringes and related equipment. nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Promote a caring attitude toward all animals and treat animals humanely and with compassion at all times, regardless of circumstances, including those that are sick, injured, feral, or aggressive. nbsp;/li/ul/ph2Minimum Qualifications/h2pul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3pt; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" id="isPasted"li style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"strong style=" font-weight: 700;"High school diploma or its equivalent./strong/li/ulstrong style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"Must be a Certified Animal Euthanasia Technician (CAET), or obtain that certification within six months of hire.brMust receive pre-exposure rabies vaccinations./strongstrong style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"brnbsp;/strongbr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"br style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"strong style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"uWorking Environment/Physical Demands:/u/strongul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3pt; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"li style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Medium to heavy work that involves walking, standing, bending, stooping, lifting, and exerting up to 50 pounds of force on a regular and reoccurring basis, including restraint of animals of varying size, age, and physical condition. nbsp;/lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Must use protective clothing or gear./lili style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"May risk exposure to toxic and caustic chemicals, and animals/wildlife, including exposure to animal bites, scratches, and diseases such as Rabies, Ringworm, Lyme disease and Zoonosisnbsp;./li/ulfont color="#000000" style="font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"emCandidates with accreditations earned in a foreign institute are encouraged to apply, howevernbsp;/ememat the present time MPHD isstrong style=" font-weight: 700;"not sponsoring/strongindividuals through any of the US Government’s employment-based immigration programs./em/fontbr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"em style="color: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"font color="#000000"nbsp;/font/embr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"em style="color: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"font color="#000000"MPHD seeks to be a socially and culturally responsive organization that acknowledges and addresses historical and current inequities in our public health promotion and practice. Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to work with multicultural communities./font/embr style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"font color="#000000" style="font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"fontnbsp;/font/font/ph2Other Qualifications/h2pulli style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" id="isPasted"span style=" color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px;"Animal Care Experiencenbsp;/span/lili style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"span style=" color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px;"Associates degree or higher/span/li/ul/p