Animal Health Technician - DLAM

Reporting to the Animal Care Supervisor I, the Animal
Health Technician, will provide a wide variety of paraveterinary health care
duties that are directly related to all research conducted at UCLA. Major
duties include conditioning & quarantine, campus health programs, clinical
management, procedures training, and laboratory specimen handling.

Salary Range: $24.28 - $29.88 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
• Skill
  in writing health reports and other records with legible handwriting, or
  using computer systems
• 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 necropsy rooms.
• 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
  NonclinicalLaboratory 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:

• 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.
• Ability
  to assist in class preparation and delivery.