Veterinary Technician

• Compensation: CAD 31.02 - CAD 38.78 - hourly

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.

UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World and it’s only because of the talented and dedicated people who work here that we are continually bringing that vision closer to reality.

Union: Non-Union
Number of Vacancies: 1
Replacement or New: Replacement
Site: Multi-site(Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, PMCRT, Max Bell)
Department: Animal Resource Centre
Reports to:Manager
Wages: $31.02 - $38.78 per hour
Hours: 37.5hours/week
Shifts: Saturday-Wednesday 7 am - 3 pm
Status:Permanent Full Time
Closing Date: September 23, 2026

Position Summary
University Health Network (UHN) is looking for an experienced professional to fill the key role of Veterinary Technician in our Animal Resource Centre. Veterinary Technicians, within UHN's Animal Resource Centre, are involved in basic animal husbandry of multi species of laboratory animals and are responsible for the health and welfare of animals in their care. Duties include colony management, animal husbandry of a variety of species(large and small species), health monitoring, treatments and technical services such as blood draws, gavage and drug administration.
Veterinary Technicians are involved in day-to-day communication with clinical veterinarians and laboratory staff, contacting them by phone and or email with any issues involving animal health and welfare.

Duties

• Performing feeding, watering, cagechanging as per ARC Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) appropriate for the species, as needed
• Ensuring appropriate environmental enrichment (EE) for the species is offered as per ARC SOP
• Taking care of special research models as per protocol e.g., immune deficient mice
• Taking care of large animal species as per protocol
• Caring for, cleaning and general maintenance of assigned animal housing rooms and associated equipment
• Taking care of animals with Biohazard areas following proper SOP, personal protective equipment (PPE) and decontamination procedures for PPE, equipment and waste leaving the containment area
• Maintains responsibility for animal health/welfare for animals assigned to care; conducting daily visual inspections and observations on food and water intake, cage conditions, alerting on call veterinarian to health issues and submitting sick cases
• Carrying out veterinary instructions given either by written (sick case) or verbal instructions, including administering drugs
• Updating sick cases and treatment sheets as required
• Notifying lab groups of issues concerning their animals verbally or by email
• Performingnecropsy or tissue collection e.g., ecto/endo parasite check, microbiological samples taken, blood and/or serum samples, tissue for histology as needed
• Performing tissue sampling and post mortems, as directed by the attending veterinarian
• Ensuring room and facility conditions are adequate as per provincial legislation (Ontario Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs) and…