Animal Attendant

2 days ago


Cessnock City Council, Australia Kip Happy Stays Full time

Kip Hunter Valley

Animal Attendant (Pet Boarding)

As the leading provider of pet care services across Australia, Kip Happy Stays sets the benchmark for excellence, creating trusted and joyful spaces that pets love and families can depend on.

At Kip Hunter Valley, our team is deeply committed to delivering exceptional care to every furry friend that walks through it's doors. We are now looking for casual Christmas staff to complement our existing team and help contribute to providing a premium service to the local pets across the upcoming Christmas and school holiday period.

The ideal candidate will be available to work flexible hours between 7am-6pm, Monday through Sunday, with the ability to adapt to a variety of shifts and schedules. Availability to work across the Christmas holiday period is required.

Duties and responsibilities:

- Provision of food and water for pets in care

- Healthchecks and general animal husbandry

- Supervising groups of dogs and managing their behaviours to maintain overall wellbeing and safety

- Providing enrichment through play and scheduled activities

- Frequent cleaning and upkeep of facility to maintain a high level of hygiene and safety

- Building and maintaining rapport with our pet owners through feedback and transparency

- Creating and distributing media content for our pet owners through videos and photos

- Daily administration such as answering enquiries through email and phone, record keeping and entering information in our booking systems

Key requirements:

- Previous experienceworking with animals is preferred

- Available on weekends and school holiday periods

- Driven and have a strong work ethic

- Physically fit and comfortable working indoors and outdoors in all conditions with pets of various sizes

- Great attention to detail

- Work wellin a team environment

- Able to follow routines, policies and procedures

- Available to attend a lawful unpaid work trial shift (operated within The Fair Work Ombudsman guidelines)

Why Kip Happy Stays?

- Did someone say pets?

- We offer opportunities for career growth and promote from within.

- Extensive training opportunities to further build your skillset.

- Enjoy up to 50% off on shop items and our boarding and daycare services.

- Generous incentive programs for our leaders to earn bonuses based on performance.

- A structured induction program to set you up to succeed.

- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that supports our employees with free confidential counselling services.

- Work with like-minded people in a fun and exciting business with a well-established reputation and brand.

- A generous Employee Referral Program where you can earn up to $3000 per person when you recommend exceptional people that we onboard at Kip Happy Stays.

How to apply

Include a cover letter outlining why you are the best fit for the role. If you have no animal handling experience or don’t tick all the boxes, we'd love to know how your current skill set can transfer

Shortlisted candidates will be sent an invite to complete a one-way video interview.

We look forward to reviewing your applications

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