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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation.
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We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.
A Brief Overview
This person will be familiar with the day-to-day activities, employees, and concerns within the facilities. Responsible for providing a variety of animal husbandry services; serves as subject matter expert providing consult and support to team members.
What you will do
- Experience caring for animals in a laboratory or veterinary environment.
- Assist in monitoring compliance on daily husbandry requirements, technical services and/or clinical support for assigned areas.
- Daily and weekly quality assurance inspections for assigned areas.
- Performs daily animal health checks and reports any abnormal animal conditions to the veterinary technician and /or management.
- Provides animal husbandry and cage cleaning as needed
- Assists animal facility supervisors to achieve daily/weekly metrics
- Assists animal facility supervisors to ensure required daily tasks are completed as assigned to the staff
- Assists with animal receipts and census scanning as needed.
- Maintains inventories of technical supplies such as medications and procedure room and hallway supplies.
- Assists investigators with basic technical procedures (treatments, blood withdrawal, tissue collection and sampling) as requested.
- All work will be performed as per facility SOPs.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Education Qualifications
- High School Diploma / GED Required
- Associate's Degree Animal Science or Veterinary Technology Preferred
Experience Qualifications
- At least three (3) years experience in a laboratory animal or zoo animal setting Required
Licenses and Certifications
- Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician (ALAT) - American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) - - Preferred or
- Laboratory Animal Technician (LAT) - American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) - - Preferred or
- Laboratory Animal Technologist (LATG) - American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) - - Preferred
To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.
Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.
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