Senior Animal Attendant

at  RSPCA Queensland

RSPCA Queensland is a non-government, community-based charity dedicated to improving the lives of domestic, farmed, and native animals in Queensland. Our mission statement is simple but powerful: Together We Change Lives.

Providing vital help to all creatures great and small by caring for and attending to all animals in the care of RSPCA Qld Cairns by performing a wide range of duties using best practice in animal husbandry. This is a full-time position covering a 12-month parental leave, which involves regular weekend shifts offering excellent penalty rates.

• Working alongside a team of staff and volunteers to ensure animal welfare is a top priority.
• Providing exceptional levels of care to animals including general husbandry, dietary requirements and enrichment.
• Assisting in animal health examinations and administering routine veterinary preventative treatments and medications.
• Ensuring high standards of shelter cleanliness/hygiene.
• Providing training and behaviour modification for animals in care using positive, reward-based techniques.
• The ongoing communication of animal health, behaviour and wellbeing.
• Strict adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Coordination and training of volunteers and participating in peer mentoring.
• Collaborating with and working closely with other departments at RSPCA and external agencies to ensure the needs of the animal are met.
• Assisting in the animal adoption process.
• Ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail is employed when updating individual animal shelter records and communicating with other departments and agencies and.
• Ensuring customers comply with Local Council By-Laws.

Our Animal Attendants primarily work with our domestic animals, including dogs, cats, livestock, and small pets.