Animal Health Technician - DLAM

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.