Cat-Focused Veterinary Clinic Volunteer - Multiple Positions!

We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate animal lovers who want to make a difference! These opportunities are best suited to those already in the veterinary field, including in school to be a veterinary assistant, RVT or DVM.

MEDICAL CLINIC VOLUNTEER POSITION DESCRIPTIONS

Position 1: Medical Clinic Administrative Assistant Volunteer

Position Duties: Provides administrative assistance for the medical clinic. Duties include communicating medical information to fosters/adopters, providing post-op medical instructions and information sheets, providing time updates to waiting appointments, and other general administrative and organizational duties and projects, as assigned.

Time Commitment: Minimum of one 2-hour shift per week

Requirements: Basic computer skills, attentive listening and good interpersonal skills, organization.

Tasks: Answer phone, check-in appointments, greet fosters/visitors/delivery services and direct human traffic, accept RX donations, scan documents, complete surgical forms, enter data into ShelterLuv, filing and light cleaning of the clinic and clinic-holding area.

Position 2: Surgery Discharge Assistant Volunteer

Position Duties: Gives proper discharge instructions to adopters/fosters and release patient from surgery

Time Commitment: Minimum of one 2-hour shift per week. Surgeries are on Monday and Thursday

Requirements: Organizational skills and ability to follow directions. Must be comfortable seeing and cleaning blood, feces, urine, and saliva. Because of the nature of surgery, volunteers must be attentive and dedicated to all life saving protocols and procedures. Ability to perform frequent kneeling, squatting, and bending. Must be able to lift 20 lbs.

Tasks: Go over discharge instructions with adopters/fosters, including post op medications as necessary. Alert technicians/assistants to any questions the foster/adopters may have. Sanitize and break down kennels after the patient has been discharged.

Position 3: Surgery Check in Assistant Volunteer

Position Duties: Check in patients for surgery, make sure they are healthy and of minimum weight, collect relevant information from adopters/fosters about the patient.

Time Commitment: Minimum of 2-hour per week. Surgeries are on Monday and Thursday

Skills Required: Organizational skills and ability to follow directions. Must be comfortable seeing and cleaning blood, feces, urine, and saliva. Because of the nature of surgery, volunteers must be attentive and dedicated to all life saving protocols and procedures. Ability to perform frequent kneeling, squatting, and bending. Must be able to lift 20 lbs.

Tasks: Check in patients, collect medical history from adopters/foster’s pre-assessment forms, alert technician of sick patients ensuring they get proper care, reschedule surgeries if needed, place cats in appropriate runs.

Position 4: Surgery Recovery Assistant Volunteer

Position Description: Assist Recovery Technician in the surgical recovery of patients, administer medications and vaccinations, monitor vitals, extubation, some cleaning, preparing paperwork take-home medication. Other Technician Assistant duties as needed.

Time Commitment: Minimum of one 4-hour shift once weekly.

Skills Required: Organizational skills and ability to follow directions. Must be comfortable seeing and cleaning blood, feces, urine, and saliva. Because of the nature of surgery, volunteers must be attentive and dedicated to all life saving protocols and procedures. Ability to perform frequent kneeling, squatting, and bending. Must be able to lift 20 lbs.

We operate from 7 AM to 8 PM daily and can accommodate volunteer shifts within these time frames. You may email us at volunteers@straycatalliance.org or sign up directly at https://www.volgistics.com/ex/portal.dll/ap?ap=659158053

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