Apprentice Animal Care Assistant

About the role

🐾 Animal Caretaker Extraordinaire Needed! 🐾

Are you passionate about animals and ready to dive headfirst into a rewarding role? We're looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team and provide top-notch care for our furry (and not-so-furry!) residents. 🐶🐱

What you'll be doing:

• Habitat Hygiene Hero: Keep our kennels, cat pens, feeding stations, and equipment sparkling clean and disinfected. ✨ Litter box duty? No problem! 🧼
• Nutrition Ninja: Prepare and serve delicious meals and fresh water to keep our animals fueled and happy. 🍎💧
• Adventure Architect: Safely exercise our dogs, providing them with engaging activities and enrichment to keep their tails wagging. 🎾🌳
• Social Butterfly/Buddy: Spend quality time socializing with our animals, understanding and supporting their unique personalities and needs. 🥰
• Health & Wellness Watcher: Keep a keen eye on the health, welfare, and behavior of our animals, reporting any concerns promptly. 🧐
• Laundry Legend: Tackle laundry duties, ensuring fresh bedding and towels are always on hand. 🧺
• Grooming Guru (Optional): Depending on your skills and training, assist with grooming and bathing our adorable clients. 🚿
• Welcome Wagon & Farewell Friend: Help manage animal arrivals and departures, ensuring smooth and professional handovers. 👋
• Customer Service Superstar: Greet pet owners with a friendly and professional attitude, making their experience a positive one. 😊
• Tech-Savvy Record Keeper: Utilize our booking system to accurately record and update customer and animal information, and maintain detailed care records. 📝
• Safety & Standards Champion: Adhere to all health and safety, hygiene, infection control, and animal welfare procedures – because their safety is our top priority! 🛡️

If you're ready to get your hands (a little) dirty and make a real difference in the lives of animals, apply today! 🚀

Key responsibilities

• Provide daily animal care, including cleaning, feeding, exercise, and socialisation.
• Monitor animal health, welfare, and behaviour, reporting any concerns.
• Maintain accurate animal care and customer records.
• Provide friendly and professional customer service to pet owners.
• Follow health and safety, hygiene, infection control, and animal welfare procedures.

Entry requirements

GCSE in: (English (grade 3/D), Maths (grade 3/D))