Animal Groomer and Bather jobs in Lafayette, LA

Lafayette Veterinary Care Center strives to create a practice where employees can make a difference daily. Our goal is to maintain a fun, educational, and safe environment for employees, clients, and patients. We want to see our employees be their best by reaching their career goals at our hospital and resort.. We are open 24hrs a day 7 days a week in order to provide extraordinary care for our extraordinary clients and patients.

PAY: Starts at 10-11 per hour, weekends include a 20% pay increase to start pay

**Hours: 7am-4pm, 8am-4pm, 9a-6pm** This position includes weekends.

Mandatory Requirments

• Assisting and supporting our groomers, veterinarians and team
• Bathing of dogs using our flow system and policies
• Maintain a professional demeanor and use of medical terminology
• Desire to learn and an ability to adapt to changing situations
• Uphold our company’s core values
• Extraordinary customer service
• Standing, sitting, crouching, and walking multiple times per day for the care of pets
• Restraining of pets for your safety and our team’s safety
• Keeping a team mentality at all times

We expect our employees to be fully engaged, team players that support each other by having positive attitudes and strong work ethic. All employees must have the desire to learn and be able to adapt to change. Our ideal employee goes out of their way to make a difference for pets as well as their owners to provide an one of a kind experience.

Benefits include:

• Awesome co-workers
• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• Time off and vacation pay
• Pets everywhere all day!
• Pet benefits for employee pets
• 401K

Please pick one of the following questions to answer in a cover letter submitted with your resume.

• How have you made a difference at your previous jobs?
• Is there anything you wish you would have done differently at a previous job? Explain what and why.
• You have a family member with a sick pet. Please explain as best you can what level of care and communication you would want. Please be as detailed as possible.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $10.00 - $11.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person