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The Animal Health Technician I provides essential veterinary and clinical support for UCLA’s Campus Animal Health Program.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to conducting daily health assessments of laboratory animals, identifying and reporting health concerns, assisting with the treatment and care of sick or injured animals, administering medications, collecting clinical samples, maintaining medical records, implementing environmental enrichment, and supporting veterinary procedures.
The position also assists with facility health monitoring, inventory management, weekend and holiday coverage, and ensuring compliance with institutional policies and applicable animal welfare regulations. The successful candidate will help maintain high standards of animal care and support UCLA’s biomedical research programs.
Salary range: $27.25 – $34.29 Hourly
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
- Ability to complete tasks in an orderly and timely fashion.
- Skill in writing health reports and other records with legible handwriting, or using computer systems
- Skill in prioritizing assignments in a timely and accurate manner.
- 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 necropsyrooms.
- 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 Nonclinical Laboratory 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:
- Ability to assist in class preparation and delivery.
- 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.
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