About The Role
You\'re passionate about ensuring the highest standards of animal care and wellbeing. You thrive in a role where you can support the physical and mental welfare of dogs in a specialist environment.
As a Breeding Dog Wellbeing Technician, you\'ll play a crucial role in ensuring the specialist care, health, and wellbeing of breeding dogs and puppies at our Guide Dogs National Centre. You\'ll provide high-quality husbandry, monitor behaviour and health, and support the development and socialisation of puppies, preparing them for their future roles.
You\'ll thrive in this role if you have experience working in a kennel environment (paid or voluntary) and a qualification in animal care, training, or behaviour (or equivalent work-based experience). A strong understanding of animal care principles and behaviour is essential. Effective communication skills are crucial for liaising with colleagues, volunteers, and external partners. The ability to problem-solve and make decisions in non-routine situations will be key to your success.
You\'ll need a reasonable level of fitness, stamina, and mobility to meet the physical demands of the role, along with emotional resilience to manage the challenges of working with breeding dogs and puppies.
Flexibility is essential, as the role will require early mornings, evenings, weekends, and overnight duties as needed on a rolling two-week rota. This also includes working
Contact Details:
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association Recruitment Team
