Student Animal Care Assistant
Core
Providing daily care, cleanliness, and upkeep for laboratory animals in a veterinary setting.
Role type
Student animal care assistant
Builds
Laboratory animal housing and care environment
Domain
Veterinary medicine / Laboratory animal science
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
animal feeding, cage cleaning, supply restocking, health record updating, linen management, basic math, basic reading
Responsibilities
Ensures animal cages and containment rooms are kept clean and orderly; Launders, stores and distributes linens and scrubs; Restocks supplies needed for meeting animal needs; Performs animal care duties such as feeding, watering, applying bedding, and updating health records.