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Trainee Animal Technician
Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East

Are you looking to launch your career working with animals?

Are you passionate about looking after animals and provide their welfare needs?

Are you looking for a role paying £22,000 as a starting salary as well as starting a lifelong career?

At S3 Science we link our clients with candidates with one key focus ‘to train and place animal lovers into a career as Animal Technician. Our sole aim is to provide suitable, enthusiastic, and passionate Animal Technicians to employers nationwide. As you can appreciate, with animal welfare being such a high priority all new trainee animal technicians must complete a short induction training programme. This will comprise several short and very basic multiple-choice study modules so you can hit the ground running.

Daily duties working as an Animal Technician include;


  • Feeding and watering
  • General health checking
  • Handling animals
  • Cage cleaning and washing

The qualities of an Animal Technician are:


  • High levels of motivation and a good work ethic
  • A genuine passion to work with animals – demonstrating care, welfare, and compassion
  • Previous experience working with (and handling) animals would be beneficial
  • Accurate data entry
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Enjoys working on your own and as part of a team

Don’t worry if you haven’t previously held the role of an Animal Technician, providing you meet our requirements you will receive on-the-job training with full pay and benefits from day 1.

Think you have what it takes, simply follow our application route below and join our team of Animal technicians today

Application route:

Simply click and apply to the advert, and if successful, you will be contacted by a member of the team ASAP. Due to the number of applications, we receive, if you have not been contacted within 1 week, unfortunately, you have not been successful for this role.

Interviews will be taking place ASAP and starts can be immediate, but this is not essential should you have a notice period, they are willing to wait for the right people.

We have a high success rate in getting people their dream jobs, so please apply today and let us help you get that career you have been waiting for.

S3 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Salary: £22,000
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