Animal Care Assistant

Grade UE04: £21,630 - £23,715 per annum

MVM/R(D)SVS/HfSA

Full-time: 35 hours per week + 2.5 hours contractual overtime (totalling 37.5 hours per week)

Working pattern: Monday-Friday, 7.5 hours per day

Open-ended

This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone with a passion for animals and the drive to make a difference. We are a large veterinary and teaching hospital with a great team of vets, nurses and assistants who are all committed to animal health and welfare. This is a demanding role and requires dedication, proactivity, flexibility, a strong work ethic and a strong belief in delivering the highest standard of patient care.

This is a new position, due to increasing caseload, joining our existing ACA team. We have a full 6-8 week training programme where you will shadow our friendly and experienced staff to learn the ropes.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking an enthusiastic and reliable candidate who is interested in all aspects of hospitalised animal care such as kennel cleaning, feeding inpatients, laundry, walking dogs, assisting vets and vet nurses with procedures on dogs, cats, and exotics, grooming and general day to day patient care.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Experience working with animals in a veterinary setting is essential.
• Ability to work alone as well as part of a team is essential.
• Excellent communication skills are essential to this role.

Staff benefits include:

• Staff discount for pet treatment.
• Amazing onsite perks:
  • Staff discount for on-site gym and exercises classes https://www.ed.ac.uk/sport-exercise/gym-memberships
  • Free car parking with electric car charging points https://www.ed.ac.uk/transport/driving/ev-charging
  • Two on site canteens.
  • Cycle to work scheme, on-site bike lockers and showers available. https://www.ed.ac.uk/transport/cycling/getting-a-bike/cycle-to-work
• Additional shift cover opportunities are available, accruing paid overtime for additional hours worked.
• Holiday entitlement of 32 days + 4 days of public holiday per annum (pro rata), rising to 36 days + 4 days public holiday after 5 years’ service (pro rata).

If you have any question, please contact our lead ACA, Tasha Cadman Tasha.Cadman@ed.ac.uk

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.