Job Duties: The Animal Assistant supports the Lead Equine Therapist to provide physical rehabilitation services to horses. The role involves setting up the equipment and treatment environment, assisting during sessions, observing and documenting responses, and helping with follow-up care. No degree is required - instead, the position emphasizes love and respect for animals. experience with horses, physical ability, communication skills, and reliability. In this role, the assistant helps to collect information about the horse in question, prepare equipment, assist during the therapy sessions paying close attention to the horses' response and carefully document such observations. The position also involves maintaining cleanliness and organization of supplies, recording treatment notes, and staying in close communication with the Lead Equine Therapist throughout the work day.
Requirements: No education or experience required.
Special Requirements: Physical ability to perform physical tasks, including bending, lifting (up to 50lbs), standing or walking for extended periods. Hours can include overtime. Saturday and Sunday work required, when necessary.
Terms and conditions of employment: $16.61/hour, 40 hours/week, Overtime available at $24.92 per hour. Tue-Sat, 8:00AM-5:00PM. Employer will use a single workweek as its standard for computing wages due. Employees will be paid bi-weekly on Friday. Raises and/or bonuses may be offered based on individual factors including work performance, skill, and tenure. On the job training available. Workers will be provided, without charge or deposit charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the duties assigned. Workers will begin each day at the worksite address. They will then be transported, free of charge, to properties located throughout the area of intended employment, to perform duties. They will then be transported back to the worksite address at the end of each workday.
The employer will make all deductions from worker's paycheck required by law and no others without worker consent. The employer does not envision other workforce-wide payroll deductions. Potential elective deductions to be pre-authorized in writing if applicable are as follows: If needed, employer will assist only in locating optional worker-paid lodging for hired foreign and non-local U.S. workers. Employer provides first set of uniforms at no cost to workers. Additional uniforms are available for purchase by the worker and may be payroll deducted. Such purchases are optional and for the worker's benefit.
Transportation: The employer will reimburse an H-2B worker in the first work week for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government, incurred by the H-2B worker. From the place from which the worker has come to work, whether in the US or abroad, to the place of employment, if the worker completes 50% of the work contract period, the employer will provide advance payment for transportation and subsistence (including meals and to the extent necessary, lodging) from the place of recruitment to the place of employment. Upon completion of the work contract or where the worker is dismissed earlier, employer will provide or pay for worker's reasonable costs of return transportation and subsistence back home or to the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent employment with another employer. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved. Daily subsistence will be provided at a rate of $16.78 per day during travel to a maximum of $68.00 per day with receipts.
Three-fourths guarantee: The employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least three fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment period.
Tools, equipment and supplies: The employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, supplies, & equipment required to perform the job.
Employer contact information: Monica Martins Marcuzzi, 8148 Troy Pike, Versailles, KY 40383. Email: fisiovet@hotmail.com. Telephone: (859) 539-0248.
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Employer contact information: Monica Martins Marcuzzi, 8148 Troy Pike, Versailles, KY 40383. Email: fisiovet@hotmail.com. Telephone: (859) 539-0248.