Dog Wellbeing Technician

About The Role

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Come and join us as a proactive and purpose‑led Dog Wellbeing Technician and be part of something life‑changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.

As a Dog Wellbeing Technician at Guide Dogs, you'll play a vital role in

ensuring the highest standards of dog health, wellbeing and specialist care. The

Dog Wellbeing Technician will be an expert in canine wellbeing and husbandry,

with strong knowledge of dog health, behaviour, welfare standards and positive

handling techniques. You'll use your expertise to make informed decisions,

identify and escalate health concerns, and coach colleagues and volunteers in

best practice dog care. Our Dog Wellbeing Technicians play a huge part in

ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed

expectations.

This role will be based on site at our Leeds office. You'll be working 35 hours per week on a rota basis, with alternating shifts of 8am - 4pm and 10am - 6pm, Monday to Friday.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the care of a group of dogs in a

dog accommodation area, ensuring their routine husbandry needs are met.

• Work in line with national dog wellbeing practices and

procedures, including the provision of specialist health care.

• Monitor and maximise the wellbeing of dogs. Identify health

concerns, make appropriate decisions and escalate in a timely manner.

• Support the development and maintenance of the dog's

behaviour using current guide dogs handling techniques.

• Lead and support volunteers in dog wellbeing and fostering

to complete their role and tasks to the best of their ability. Provide

technical input to support their preparation, performance and development.

• Maintain accurate and up to date records. Interpret health

data and identify concerns/trends within the local dog population.

• Transport dogs across the region for health-related

appointments with internal and external bodies.

You

You'll have a person‑centred, expert and optimistic

approach to your work, grounded in a strong understanding of animal wellbeing

and dog care principles. You'll

enjoy working in a kennel and dog accommodation environment, supporting

colleagues and volunteers, with a dedicated focus on dog health, wellbeing,

behaviour and positive handling techniques, whilst being committed to

delivering the highest standards of care. You'll act with integrity and honesty

in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

• A qualification in animal care, experience or equivalent

relevant work-based experience.

• Able to undertake physical demands of the role, walking

distances unaided and able to handle and walk with a range of dog breeds, ages,

sizes and temperaments.

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role which

involves transporting dogs on a regular basis. In the absence of a full valid

UK Driving License, you will be expected to demonstrate how you will fulfil

this aspect of the role via alternative means.

• Experience of working in a kennel type environment - paid

employment or voluntary.

• Experience of supporting a customer serving based

organisation.

• Proven understanding of the core principles of animal

wellbeing.

• Demonstrable basic understanding of health and safety and

safeguarding.

• Proven understanding of dog care principles and health

conditions.

Benefits

We

wouldn't be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our

people. That's why it's important for us to provide a variety of benefits that

reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and

contribution that they make.

• 26 days annual leave. After three years of

continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.

• Real Living Wage Employer
• Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your

annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits

• The option to buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cash-back scheme
• Excellent pension scheme (We will match your

pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)

• And lots more!

For high

volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than

advertised.

About Us

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Our and Inclusion

Behind

Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We're passionate about creating an

inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self

to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital

or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or

national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want

you to 'fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.

How to

apply

Further

details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply,

submit an online application form via this page. Please note - If you are successful you will

need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID

checking supplier. We cannot offer visa

sponsorship at this time.

As part

of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills

& experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions, so please be

prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you

choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use

them appropriately. We value authenticity. If you want to stand out,

using a generic AI-generated response isn't going to separate you

from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique

skills, personality, and thought processes! You can find our full

statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.

If you

would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or

require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is

ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk.

Safer

recruitment

Guide

Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the

vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history

with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details

fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role,

please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign

up to the DBS update service.

At Guide

Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will

not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position.

Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to

disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled

confidentially and fairly.