SUMMARY OF JOB PURPOSE AND FUNCTION : The Pet Care Assistant works with the veterinary medical team to provide and prepare for the best medical care of pets. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:  Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.  Prepare the treatment room for examination of pets and all necessary medical item and supplies (e.g. vaccinations, fecal loops, slides, etc.) for the veterinarian and/or veterinary technician. Set up fecals, smears, and skin scrapings as allowed by state rules and regulations.  Serve as support to the Client Services Coordinator, Veterinary Assistant and Veterinary Technician.  Hold or restrain pets during examination, treatment, or inoculation.  Prepare routine in-house laboratory tests (e.g. canine heartworm, feline leukemia, FIV, and canine parvovirus) as allowed by state rules and regulations.  Monitor the comfort of hospitalized patients. Ensure the comfort of hospitalized patients by "walking", exercising, feeding, and cleaning cages and pet (when approved by the veterinarian or veterinary technician).  Bathe and dip pets when necessary to treat dermatological conditions (when advised by veterinarian or veterinary technician.  Clean the surgical suite and instruments.  Ensure cleanliness of the hospital including but not limited to housekeeping such as laundry, dishes, mopping, cage cleaning, trash collection and removal and instrument cleaning as outlined by hospital protocols  Other job duties as assigned. THE FIVE PRINCIPLES:  Quality – The consumer is our boss, quality is our work and value for money is our goal.  Responsibility – As individuals, we demand total responsibility from ourselves; as associates, we support the responsibility of others.  Mutuality – A mutual benefit is a shared benefit; a shared benefit will endure.  Efficiency – We use resources to the full, waste nothing and do only what we can do best.  Freedom – We need freedom to shape our future; we need profit to remain free.