Animal Caretaker

Hiring Department
: LACF

Location
:
Peoria, IL USA

Requisition : 1042974

FTE
: 1

Work Schedule
: M - F, 7 a.m.

- 3 p.m.

Shift
:
Days

# of Positions
: 1

Workplace Type
:
On-Site

Salary Range (commensurate with experience): $21.67 - 23.00 / Hourly Wage

Please note that this position is not remote and is onsite in Peoria, IL.

The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP) educates 244 medical students and nearly 300 physician residents annually. It is one of four campuses that make up the nation's largest public medical school. The Peoria campus is known among students for its small class sizes, rigorous curriculum and hands-on clerkships; to residents and fellows for the strong academic setting, large referral base and exceptional facilities;

and by physicians seeking the ideal combination of teaching and practicing medicine in a research-based university setting.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

An Animal Care Technician performs skilled duties of intermediate difficulty in the care of laboratory animals (procedures/treatments, administering medications, heath monitoring, preparing specialized diets), in providing assistance to investigators or clinicians, in the maintenance of the facility's sanitation, environmental controls, animal care equipment and supplies. Typically works under general supervision of higher-level personnel, but also will handle daily animal facility operations in the absence of higher-level personnel.

• Maintains daily records of husbandry procedures, animal health checks, and cage counts.
• Receives animals shipped by vendors, including unboxing, caging, feeding, watering, and retention of appropriate corresponding records.
• Notifies investigators about received animal orders and acclimation periods.
• Separate animals into new caging when fighting or when births have occurred if researchers are unavailable.
• Follows the cage changing schedule and cleans cages for all animal rooms specified by direct supervisor.
• Dirty cage room work including, but not limited to bottle washing, rinsing of cages and operation of the cage wash.
• Clean cage room work including, but not limited to bedding of cages, filtering of cage lids, cleaning water bottle toppers, etc. Perform monthly complete animal room cleanings including but not limited to cleaning of ceiling vents, floors, walls, doors, animal racks, etc.
• Assists in the transport or shipping of animals out of the facility.
• Handles diet transitions including mixing of feeds and special diets as required for specialty studies.
• Acid wash sinks and metal carts to remove lime scale and hard water build-up.
• Maintain sanitation practices of animal facility by following written Daily Operation Manual SOP's specifying the use of detergents, disinfectants and autoclaves.
• Uses small hand tools to repair, adjust or service animal care equipment and routine minor facility general maintenance.
• Provides advanced technical procedure assistance to research or LACF personnel as requested by those personnel, including but not limited to euthanasia and surgery support.
• Assists the attending veterinarian in provision of medical treatment and pre/post surgical care for animals.
• Assists higher level personnel in more advanced animal care procedures common or specialized.
• General animal handling, performs treatments, animal identification and administers intra-peritoneal, topical, injectable or other drug administration routes as required.
• Assists in the infectious disease monitoring.
• Assists with survival and terminal bleeds (cardiac stick if necessary), and…