What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bather position at KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY?
Summary of Purpose:
Provides bathing and prep services to grooming animals while demonstrating excellent customer service.
Duties (Essential Functions):
Provide high quality grooming services.
- Responsible for bathing, drying, brushing, nail trimming and shaving grooming animals.
- Provide humane, effective restraint of dogs/cats.
Provide professional, compassionate, stellar customer service to all who visit, call, volunteer, donate or work for KHS.
- Communicate with groomer regarding any significant problems or concerns.
Provide daily cleaning and equipment maintenance.
- Provide maintenance of all grooming equipment (IE: remove hair from dryers, cleaning blades, etc.).
- Follow daily and weekly cleaning protocol per Resort Standard Operating Procedures.
- Assist with laundry.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:Qualifications/Requirements:
- General to intermediate dog and cat knowledge preferred.
- Ability to work independently with little direct supervision.
- Great interpersonal skills in person and by phone with clients, staff, and volunteers.
- Demonstrated attention to detail, and ability to understand and follow client instructions.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Humane attitude towards animals.
- Accept, support, and represent KHS core values, programs, policies, and procedures.
- Basic computer knowledge.
- Support the usage of approved AI tools when they can improve efficiency and reduce time spent on routine or administrative tasks while meeting quality, accuracy, confidentiality and professional standards.
- Ability to lift or otherwise move large animals – up to 50 pounds; full range of motion, including stooping, bending, reaching, etc.
- Must be able to restrain dogs in excess of 70 pounds.
- Background Check required.
Physical, Psychosocial, and Cognitive Demands/ Working Environment
- Frequent bending, reaching, kneeling, walking, and standing regularly while performing job functions.
- Frequently lifts, carries, or otherwise moves and positions objects weighing up to and exceeding 50 lbs.
- Includes working with animals in a kennel/shelter setting (indoor/outdoor) in varying weather conditions.
- Potential for exposure to allergens (including but not limited to pet dander, dust, peanut butter), and zoonotic diseases (diseases transferred from animals to humans).
- Exposure to chemicals.
- Exposure to loud noise.
- Exposure to emotional circumstances.
- Fast-paced environment.