Animal Health Technician II - DLAM

The Animal Health Technician II will provide a wide variety of paraveterinary health care duties that are directly related to all animal research conducted at UCLA. Major duties include, but are not limited to campus animal health programs, investigator services & procedures training, clinical and laboratory management, and animal conditioning & quarantine.

Salary Range: $31.76 - $39.72 Hour

Required:

• Bachelor’s in science or RVT + 3 years of experience in laboratory animals. Or, High school diploma + ALAT AALAS Certification + 5 years of experience in laboratory animals.
• Ability to recognize abnormalities in behavior of laboratory animals (dogs, rabbits, rats, mice, pigs, sheep, and others) and signs that indicate disease.
• Ability to effectively communicate with faculty and staff who have varying degrees of veterinary medical training.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Skill in administering oral (including gavage) and parenteral (ID, SQ, IM, IP, IV) medications including fluids to different species.
• Skill in handling and restraining laboratory animals.
• Skills in the operational aspect of an inhalation gas anesthesia machines.
• Skill in the collection of animal diagnostic samples from animals including but not limited to blood, urine, feces.
• Knowledge of basic anesthesia administration, monitoring and recovery principles
• Skill in operating and maintaining basic surgery room equipment including preparing and sterilizing surgical instruments.
• Ability to complete tasks in an independent, orderly and timely fashion.
• Skill in writing health reports and other records with legible handwriting, or using computer systems
• Skill handling and monitoring animals pre-intra and post-operatively .
• Skill in cleaning and disinfecting laboratory, surgery and necropsy rooms.
• Ability to euthanize animals using CO2 chambers and by IV injection of euthanasia solution or an over dose of anesthetic agents. Knowledge of and skill in performing the injection including the use of controlled substances and ability to ascertain that death has occurred. Knowledge of appropriate disposal of the animals, including bio-hazardous animals.Ability to euthanize animals using CO2 chambers.  Knowledge of appropriate disposal of the animals, including bio-hazardous animals. 
• 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
• Ability to follow safety procedures.
• Knowledge of and the ability to apply the concept of contamination control practices including engineering, administrative, and procedural controls for the containment of pathogens,  including disinfection, and waste handling methods appropriate for work in bio-containment animal facilities up to BSL2 level with BSL3 practices.
• Knowledge of and ability to accurately follow SOPs, working instructions and other written and verbal training materials.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of the requirements for sample storage and processing
• Assist in training of fellow employees and lab members for IACUC or DLAM required training. Report completion of training to MSO and document appropriately.
• Ability to assist in class preparation and delivery.
• Skill in teaching biomedical procedures