Description
UCLA HEALTH
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Description
Reporting to the Animal Care Supervisor I, the Animal
Health Technician, 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.
Salary Range: $24.28 – $29.88 Hourly
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 - Skill
in writing health reports and other records with legible handwriting, or
using computer systems - 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
NonclinicalLaboratory 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:
- 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. - Ability
to assist in class preparation and delivery.