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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm, may include weekends and holidays
Posted Date
01/16/2025
Salary Range: $23.12 - 28.46 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
21831

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Under direction of the Animal Resources Supervisor I/II and/or Clinical Veterinarian, provide a wide variety of paraveterinary health care duties that are directly related to all research conducted at UCLA. Major duties include, but are not limited to conditioning & quarantine, campus health programs, clinical management, procedures training, and laboratory specimen handling.  


Salary Range: $23.12 - 28.46 Hourly

Job Qualifications

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 prioritizing assignments in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Skill in medical procedures including treatment administration and follow up, postoperative 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 assessing 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 Nonclinical
  • Laboratory 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:
  • Ability to assist in class preparation and delivery.
  • 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.


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.