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PET CARE PROFESSIONAL: Alexandria Pet Care seeks a pet caregiver to work with special needs and healthy animals in their homes for pet sitting and dog walking visits.
Must have 1+ years prior animal experience in a volunteer or paid job working with animals, veterinary, dog training, animal behavior, fostering, rescue, doggie day care, or other.
Able and willing to care for medically needy and fearful or behaviorally needy animals, after Fear Free Certified® pet sitter training
Build your own schedule 7 days per week between 7am and 10pm
Starting hours are 15-25 hours/week.
May grow to 30+ hours/week as our company continues to grow.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Live in our service area in Alexandria City: must live in one of our zip codes: 22301, 22302, 22303, 22304, 22305, 22311, 22312, 22314
Have prior volunteer or paid pet experience
COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED:
We’re a 100% COVID-vaccinated pet care team. All candidates provide documentation of vaccination dates before scheduling an interview. New hires must have a bivalent booster and flu vaccination before beginning work.
COMPENSATION:
Work for the most trusted team in town, with W-2 employee status and great perks!
$18-$21 per hour weekdays / $27-$31 time-and-a-half all weekends and holidays
Perks: paid driving time, paid breaks, mileage reimbursement, meal reimbursement, gear reimbursement, paid training as a Fear Free Certified® Pet Sitting Professional, paid certification in Pet First Aid/CPR, 50% employee discount for our pet care services, and an awesome caring team
Benefits: Insurance bundle of medical/dental/vision is open to all part-timers and full-timers who work over 17.5 hours every week. 401(k) retirement plan with company match is open to all employees after 1 year of service with over 1,000 hours worked.
The only job where you're greeted every day with wiggles, wags, purrs, and love!
SKILLS REQUIRED
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https://alexandriapetcare.com/jobs
Elevate your career with the best pet care company in town! Alexandria Pet Care is a specialized in-home pet caregiving company providing personalized pet sitting and dog walking for almost 1,000 local households. We’re known as the most trusted and most experienced team in town, and we’re the only local service with every employee Fear Free Certified® and CPR/First Aid certified. Our service area encompasses 30 square miles including all of Alexandria City along with the portion of Fairfax County, Virginia between Huntington and Mount Vernon.
We’re a relationship-based company with a stellar reputation and 5-star ratings on Google, Facebook, Nextdoor and Yelp. Since the company’s inception in 2004, Alexandria Pet Care has only hired career pet experts to provide tailored in-client-home animal care for all types of indoor household pets. Thanks to our excellent small neighborhood teams of employees who keep an ongoing high standard of client care, Alexandria Pet Care enjoys an extremely loyal client base, year-over-year growth, and a very strong recovery from the negative impact of the pandemic on our industry.
To streamline our client experience and employee scheduling, the company uses a comprehensive client relationship management system to schedule, trac