Assistant Stylist - Trainee Dog Groomer

Join Our Groom Room Team: Assistant Stylist Wanted!

About Us:

At Pets at Home, we’re passionate about pets and it shows. Our Pet Care Centres across the UK include grooming salons, retail stores, and veterinary practices, all dedicated to delivering the very best care for pets and the people who love them.

We believe in creating welcoming, supportive environments where team members can thrive. If you share our love for pets and our commitment to excellence, we’d love to meet you.

The Role:

Our Assistant Stylists are critical to the success of our Pets Grooming salons. You\’ll deliver the highest standard of pet care, demonstrating a basic understanding of grooming techniques, handling, equipment use, and pre-grooming preparation.

We will provide training, skills, and knowledge to help you deliver excellent service, reflecting our goal of being the \’Best Pet Care Business in the World\’. We offer a competitive pay, comprehensive training, and development opportunities, including Earn as You Learn programmes and skill-based pay enhancements.

We’re seeking individuals who are:

• Passionate about delivering great service.
• Flexible, with the ability to work a shift pattern across 6 days a week (closed on Sundays). The minimum contract is 39 hours, but additional hours may be required during busy periods.
• Experience with dogs in a professional grooming or pet care environment is desirable but not essential. Bathing and prepping your own dog does not qualify as professional experience. Experience in a customer-facing role is preferred.
• Preferably experienced in target-driven environments, but willing to train the right candidate.

Why Join Us?

We value and reward our colleagues through benefits supporting mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Some benefits include:

• Attractive pay plus commission, subject to targets
• Certified iPet Level 3 training and qualification
• 28 days paid annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years (including bank holidays, pro-rata)
• Extra day off for your birthday
• Life Assurance – 4 times your annual salary
• Company pension contribution of 4%
• 20% colleague discount across the Group, including 30% off on own brand products

We celebrate diversity and encourage everyone to apply, regardless of background. We want you to be yourself and contribute your unique skills and values.

Together, we’re better with pets.

Click here to read our Values & Behaviours.

Click here for more details and benefits.

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