Queen’s University is currently accepting applications to fill an opening for a Casual Veterinary Technician to work weekends and holidays (approximately 14 hours per week) in Animal Care Services.

Job Duties:
– Provide daily care and husbandry for laboratory animals.
– Providing animal treatments under veterinary guidance.
– Prepare and dispense the correct diet for specific species according to the animal’s biological needs, using scales, volumetric devices and including sterilization procedure.
– Recognize and record deviations from normal health and behaviour, reporting any abnormalities to Veterinary Services.
– Accurately identify, handle, and restrain animals within the facility.
– Must be aware of the basic principles of sterility, quarantining, conditioning, and epidemiological control.
-Handling and providing for the needs of special husbandry cases:
o Biohazards
o Sterile environment
– Lifting heavy animals and equipment e.g. bags of food, paper, cleaning fluids, caging.
– These skills are applied to the husbandry of common laboratory animals.