Kennel Assistant

Lafayette Veterinary Care Center is a 24/7 veterinary hospital, along with boarding, grooming, and doggie daycare services. Our Pet Care Specialist role focuses on the patient experience at our boarding facility. As a team, Lafayette Veterinary Care Center strives to create a practice where employees can make a difference daily. We aim to maintain a fun, educational, and safe environment for employees, clients, and patients. We want to see our employees be their best by reaching their career goals in our hospital. We are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week to provide extraordinary care for our extraordinary clients and patients.

**** This is a full-time position. Hours range from 5:30a-12:30p, 8a-4p, 12p-7p

Pay ranges from 10 on weekdays to 12 on weekends.

About Us:

We are looking to hire those who are brave, caring, and resilient. At this clinic, we see it all from puppy and kitten appointments to critical, all-hands-on-deck emergencies. This kind of work environment tends to create strong bonds with those who work together.

Lafayette Veterinary Care Center strives to create a practice where employees can make a difference daily. Our goal is to maintain a fun, educational, and safe environment for employees, clients, and patients. We want to see our employees be their best by reaching their career goals in our hospital. We are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week in order to provide extraordinary care for our extraordinary clients and patients.

 We have been a part of the Lafayette community as an AAHA (American Animal Hospital Association) accredited hospital since 1972.  We have always strived to be a presence in the Acadiana community and help those in and around our area. We uphold over 900 standards of excellence every year. This year, we were chosen for AAHA 2022 Practice of the Year.  

2022 AAHA-accredited Practice of the Year award winner Lafayette Veterinary Care Center

https://www.lafayettevets.com

What you bring to the table:

• General care for boarded patients including monitoring, feeding, watering, medicating, exercising, and cleaning up after patients (inside and out), cleaning suites, runs, and feline condos.

• Bringing animals to and from the kenneling areas during check-in and check-out times preparing these facility areas for the arrival and departure of patients.

• Client education

• Maintain a professional demeanor and use of medical terminology

• Desire to learn and an ability to adapt to changing situations

• Uphold our company’s core values

• Extraordinary customer service

• Standing, sitting, crouching, walking multiple times per day for care of pets

• Routinely check safety and security of patient areas.

• Greet clients promptly and cheerfully, provide useful and upbeat/positive, polite feedback regarding their pet’s care and stay.  

• Restraining of pets for your safety and our team’s safety

• Keeping a team mentality at all times 

We expect our employees to be fully engaged, team players that support each other by having positive attitudes and strong work ethics. All employees must have the desire to learn and be able to adapt to change. Our ideal employee goes out of their way to make a difference for pets as well as their owners to provide a one-of-a-kind experience.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental and vision benefits    

• Paid time off

• Pet benefits for employee pets

• 401K

• Pets everywhere all day!

• Awesome co-workers

Please pick one of the following questions to answer in a cover letter submitted with your resume.

1. How have you made a difference at your previous jobs?

2. Is there anything you wish you would have done differently at a previous job? Explain what and why.

3. You have a family member with a sick pet. Please explain as best you can what level of care and communication you would want. Please be as detailed as possible. 

National Veterinary Associates (NVA) is a leading North American pet health care company with nearly 1,300 locations spanning general practice veterinary hospitals, Ethos emergency and specialty hospitals, and pet resorts and equine veterinary care. With approximately 40,000 team members, we care for pets and support pet families in communities across the United States and Canada.  Our purpose is to give pets and the people who love them more quality years together, and our mission is to make care more personal, easy and accessible while advancing medicine and care across every stage of life. Across NVA, we support our teams with the resources, expertise and opportunities they need to deliver exceptional care and help shape the future of veterinary and pet care.

Purpose: Give pets and the people who love them more quality years together

Mission: Transform the pet family experience to be personal, easy and accessible, while advancing medicine and care across every stage of life. 

Values: Care Deeply, Do What’s Right, One Team, Own It, Shape What’s Next 

One NVA: Bringing General Practice & Ethos Together

NVA is built to make care personal, easy and accessible, while advancing medicine across every stage of a pet’s life. 

At National Veterinary Associates, we want to make sure your experience connecting with us is seamless and straightforward. Here’s what to expect when interacting with us:

- We’ll always reach out via verified LinkedIn profiles or emails ending in @nva.com

- We may also contact you via text message from an identified NVA representative for recruiting-related communication

- All job opportunities and applications are hosted on our official careers site: careers.nva.com

- There is no cost or confidential information required to apply or be considered for a position

If you have any doubts about a communication, feel free to visit our careers page to verify authenticity or email us at hiringhub@nva.com. Thank you for exploring opportunities at NVA!

NVA offers a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, vision, a 401k with employer match, and paid time off (including sick time) for all eligible employees.  The team can provide more information about compensation and benefits for your specific location during the process.  For positions based in Colorado, NVA provides eligible employees with paid sick and safe leave and public health emergency leave in accordance with the requirements of Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act.

NVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.