Equine Care Specialist
Summary
Provides daily care, feeding, and health monitoring for horses at a humane society, including cleaning, medication administration, and volunteer supervision.
Summary of Purpose:
Provides daily care, cleanliness, comfort, and enrichment to KHS horses, ensuring excellent animal care.
Duties (Essential Functions):
Provide daily care, cleanliness, and enrichment to animals in care and maintain common areas.
- Responsible for daily cleaning and sanitation of equine areas and common areas with emphasis on disease control protocols.
- Feed and provide daily care for equine of all training/behavior levels in such a manner as to ensure a low stress environment while adhering to safety protocol.
- Administer medications or treatments to ill/injured animals under direction from a veterinarian.
- Assist in movement of equine as needed.
- Responsible for loading and unloading of animals for transport to foster, veterinarian, or rescue partners.
- Provide physical exercise and/or social interaction for equine in care as assigned.
- Follow and maintain excellent knowledge of organization, cleaning, sanitation, and safety practices to provide a healthy and safe environment for animals and people.
- Unpack, sort, and organize donations as needed.
- Help maintain inventory of shelter supplies and communicate with appropriate manager to order supplies when needed.
- Assist in maintaining a clean and uncluttered environment; clean stalls, sweep, take out trash, clean offices, etc.
- Drive KHS vehicles including tractor and trucks in a safe and courteous manner as needed.
- Perform routine facility and grounds maintenance as appropriate.
Monitor the behavior and health of animals in care.
- Monitor health of animals to rapidly identify any health issues/injuries and report to manager while recording observations in departmental software systems (Petpoint).
- Gain and maintain knowledge of animal behavior including animal body language and signals of stress/illness to safely handle equine of all sizes and temperaments.
- Monitor behavior health of animals to rapidly identify any behavior issues and report to a manager while recording observations in departmental software systems (Petpoint).
Provide professional, compassionate, stellar customer services to all who visit, call, volunteer, donate or work for KHS.
- Communicate any animal health or temperament concerns to management in a timely manner.
- Work with and supervise volunteers to provide animals and humans with a safe, clean, organized, and pleasant experience.
- Communicate with manager on duty regarding unusual activities, significant problems or concerns.
Other duties as assigned.