Be A Part Of Our Team
St Giles Animal Centre provides a range of services for your pets to keep them healthy, happy and safe. All our staff are trained in relevant competencies to ensure your pet receives the very best of care. Our onsite Veterinary Clinic means that, during their stay, they have health support 24/7. Because we care, your pets will feel their stay with St Giles Animal Centre is a home-from-home. With a beautiful enrichment area, plenty of walks, cuddles and playtime, your dog or cat will feel truly spoilt. Please find below all our vacancies available at St Giles Animal Centre.
If you are interested in any of the below, please email your CV and cover letter to using the job title in the subject heading.
An exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to work within a busy boarding and rehoming centre. A rewarding hands on role supervising the kennel and cattery team to ensure all animal health and welfare needs are met.
Animal Site Supervisor
Assisting Managers and Coordinators to ensure the smooth day to day running of the site
Ensuring the site is always clean and tidy- reinforcing this daily
Recording and reporting the daily going on to the site Manager
Ensuring policies and procedures regarding the health and care of the animals and cleanliness of the site are followed by the site team
Delegating tasks and monitoring progress and completion
Monitoring employee productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching where required
Organizing workflow and ensuring all employees understand their duties and delegated tasks
Setting goals for performance and deadlines in ways that comply with the company’s plans and vision
Staff training and development
Leading and motivating the team
Cleaning Kennels and pens to the required standard
Preparing and delivering animal feeds
Administrating medication where required
Performing daily animal health checks
Monitoring and observing animals
Providing socialisation and enrichment to animals
Ensuring animal welfare needs are met
Skills Required;
Great Passion for animal welfare
A minimum of a level 2 Animal care/Welfare qualification is required
A minimum of 1 years Professional experience in an animal care/rescue role
A minimum of 1 years experience in a Team leading/Coaching role
Confidence in animal handling, in particular dogs & cats
Confidence in decision making
Excellent communication & organization skills (Written and Verbal)
Excellent customer service skills
Hours;
8am -5pm
40 per week
Alternate weekends (Flexibility with weekends can be discussed at interview stage)
Salary;
Staring salary of £25,000 (Dependant on experience)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £25,000.00-£27,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Animal Care Assistant (Welfare)
Responsibilities;
– Day to day care of animals on site including dogs, cats, small animals & exotics, cleaning of accommodation, grooming, feeding, exercise, and administering medication if required.
– Ensuring animal welfare needs are met on a daily basis
– Ensuring animals receive appropriate enrichment for their specific needs.
– Exercising dogs via walking & use of outside exercise areas.
– Maintaining a high standard of cleanliness & hygiene on site, to the animal accommodation, food preparation, laundry, store areas, staff & volunteer facilities and ensure buildings/exercise areas are always secure.
– Carrying out health checks on animals and reporting any concerns & feedback to the management team.
– Assisting with Behaviour Plans by observing behavioural changes & recording & reporting to the Senior animal handler.
– Assisting with carrying out on-going assessments for animals at the Centre under the direction of the senior animal handler & management team.
– Working alongside, supporting, and guiding Volunteers and Work Experience students
– Keeping animal records accurate in files & systems.
– Working to Centre protocols to maintain high standards of presentation throughout the centre.
– Being responsible for their own health and safety.
– To undertake any other duties required by the Management team
Requirements
- Minimum Level 2 qualification in animal or other related qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years proven experience in the animal care industry
- Excellent applied knowledge of canine/ feline behaviour
- Excellent customer service skills
Shift pattern
- 38 hours per week. Rotational basis to be discussed at interview
- Including weekends/Bank holidays on rotation
Benefits:
- On-site parking
- Pension scheme
- Annual leave scheme
- Employee discount
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £11.50-£12.30 per hour
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Day shift
Work Location: In person
Animal Handler/Social Mentor
A rare opportunity to join the St Giles Animal Welfare team in a brand new and exciting venture. At St Giles we are forever striving to improve animal welfare standards at the centre and within our community. Our community education project is a new development in recent months and is already expanding. We offer educational mentoring sessions to local schools and colleges to help educate on animal care & welfare best practice. We are in the process of setting up our very own forest school. Combining training/Animal Handling & running education sessions this rewarding role offers vast variety and value. If your up for a challenge and enjoy animal training and educating students this is the role for you.
Animal Handler/Dog Trainer Responsibilities;
Dog Training -providing one to one training sessions & building up/running and supporting with group sessions for external clients
Supporting the site management team with guidance & input, site standards, training & welfare
Training staff members in Animal behaviour & welfare
Motivating team members to promote high welfare standards
Monitoring best animal handling techniques
Ensuring enrichment needs are being met
Ensuring company behaviour & welfare policies are followed
Assisting the rescue team with Assessments
Socializing rescue dogs together
Assisting with volunteer training and requirements
Creating and carrying out training programmes
Offering support & behaviour advice to rescue clients
Transportation of rescue animals when required
Helping develop and maintain excellent working relationships with external agencies and other charities;
Representing the company at internal & external meetings when required
Updating social media
Education/Mentoring responsibilities;
Planning and preparing for learning sessions
Run Mentoring programmes in 5 week unit block dogs/cats or rolling
Delivering sessions to school & college students of ranging ages on animal husbandry and welfare.
Responsible for running sessions for groups of 6-10 students on average
Responsible for running one 2 one sessions
Gaging and adapting sessions dependant on student needs
Responsible for safeguarding students whilst on site – Both Human & animal safety is top priority
Keeping up excellent communication with Schools/Colleges via email/phone
Ensuring students and teachers/support workers are following Site safety protocols
Coordination and liaising with Centre & welfare seniors
Qualifications;
Successful DBC Check
1 year of experience in a teaching capacity
An animal behaviour or welfare qualification, or evidence of working at an equivalent level
Dog training qualification is desirable
Requirements;
A positive can-do attitude and enthusiastic team player
To be Confident and Approachable
Awareness of mental health/individual needs
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
Compassionate and caring attitude towards animals
Strong attention to detail
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Experience running dog training classes/one to one sessions
Passionate in improving animal welfare needs
A good understanding of the importance of great customer service, ideally with experience of providing excellent customer care
Excellent Administrative skills including use of Microsoft Office
A Full, clean manual UK driving license and confident driving a variety of vehicles
A reasonable level of fitness, stamina and mobility is required to complete the varied physical demands of the role
Emotional resilience to manage the potentially emotional demands of the role
Contract type; Permanent
Shift pattern; Set days to be agreed and 1 in 3 weekends
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £11.47- £13.00 per hour Dependent on experience and qualifications
Hours; To be agreed – Minimum of 3 (8 hour)days per week and 1 in 3 weekends
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: £11.44-£13.00 per hour
Expected hours: 24 – 38 per week
Dog Warden and Cremation Assistant
An exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to work within a close knit team. A variable, interesting role working closely with the St Giles Vet practice and rescue team.
Duties to include;
– Recording & maintaining documents and reports
– Dealing with stray dogs – Transportation of seized dogs
– Enforcing dog related legislation
– Promoting responsible dog ownership
– Educating members of the public
– Liaising, Training & working alongside Local county council & other agencies
– Boarding collections AM and PM
– Collection of individual cremations from veterinary practices
– Organising cremations for any collections on the day
– Creating engraving for plaques and collar tags
– Ensuring all vets have adequate stock of plastic bags and literature
– Element of Evening checks
– Ensuring phones are answered promptly
– Ensuring excellent communication between team members
– Ensuring cremations are double checked before leaving site
– Ensuring a good standard of equipment is upheld
– Quality control – Ensuring all cremations are to a high standard before leaving site
– General cover throughout site
The candidate must have the following:
-Full clean UK driving licence
-Be physically fit – there will be a lot of heavy lifting, some driving etc
-Ability to work as part of a team but predominantly by themselves
-Candidate must be presentable and able to communicate well
-Available to be part of the ‘out of hours’ and ‘on call’ rota
-Mature enough to handle people’s pets in a caring, dignified and appropriate manner
-Have a good understanding of dog behaviour and be able to confidently handle dogs with a range of behavioural needs.
Skills required:
– A full clean driving license
– Excellent Admin Skills
– Excellent Organisational skills
– Excellent communication, interpersonal and telephone skills; Having the ability to think clearly and quickly to comfort customers.
– Be compassionate and have a love for animals
– Display a professional manner at all times.
– Be comfortable to handle and care for deceased pets.
– Be comfortable to operate machinery.
– A passion for and experience of animal handling, behaviour and welfare
Hours
33- 38 per week, 1 in every 4 weekends
Job Type: Permanent
Pay: £25,000.00-£27,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
