Animal Health Technician I

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

• 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

• 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.