Animal Health Technician - Westwood

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Job Detailsnbowman 2021-12-02T18:41:32-08:00
22123

Animal Health Technician – Westwood

Work Location
Los Angeles,CA

Job #22123

Work Hours
Monday-Friday, 7am-4pm

Employment Type
career

Duration
Indef

Salary Range
$21.06 – $25.92 Hourly

Posted Date
January 21, 2022

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You can find the cures you know are out there. At UCLA Health, you make it happen as part of a groundbreaking Research team, working to understand hundreds of medical disorders and improving processes for dozens of procedures across the globe.

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Responsibilities

Under direction of the Management Services Officer and/or the Clinical Veterinarian, you will provide a wide variety of paraveterinary health care duties that are directly related to all research conducted at UCLA. Major duties include conditioning & quarantine, campus health programs, clinical management, procedures training, and laboratory specimen handling.

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Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to recognize abnormalities in behavior of laboratory animals and signs that indicate disease.
• Ability to effectively communicate with faculty and staff who have varying degrees of veterinary medical training.
• Ability to lift animals up to 50 pounds.
• Skill in administering oral (including gavage) and parenteral (ID, SQ, IM, IP) medications including fluids to different species.
• Skill in handling and restraining laboratory animals.                                                            
• Skill in the collection of animal body fluids, feces and urine. And, knowledge in sample submission.
• Ability to complete tasks in an orderly and timely fashion.
• Skill in writing health reports and other records with legible handwriting, or using computer systems.
• Skill in prioritizing assignments in a timely and accurate manner.
• Skill in medical procedures including treatment administration and follow up, post operative care, and bandaging.
• Skill in preparing and sterilizing instrument packs.                                              
• Skill in preparing animals for surgery and necropsy.                                           
• Skill in cleaning laboratory, surgery and necropsy rooms.
• Ability to euthanize animals using CO2 chambers.  Knowledge of appropriate disposal of the animals, including bio-hazardous animals.
• Skill in teaching and assess proficiency of personnel conducting biomedical procedures including animal handling, restraint, oral and parenteral administration of substances, specimen collection, aseptic technique, and/or surgery.
• Ability to follow safety procedures.
• Familiar with local, state, and federal regulations governing Animal Research: The Animal Welfare Act ( 9 CFR, Sub.Ch A), Good Laboratory Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies ( 21 CFR Part 58), The Guide 8th Ed., and Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
• Knowledge of and ability to accurately follow SOPs.
• Knowledge of the institutional environmental enrichment program(s), and skills to implement and assess it.
• Knowledge of proper documentation practices with the skills to perform this task.

Preferred:

• Ability to assist in class preparation and delivery.
• Bachelor in science or RVT + 1 years of experience in laboratory animals. Or, High school diploma + ALAT AALAS Certification + 3 years of experience in laboratory animals.

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