Onsite Canine Care Assistant - Grange

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Onsite Canine Care Assistant - The Grange

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Job Title

Job Title Canine Care Assistant

Location

Location The Grange

Salary £13.45 per hour

Employment Type

Employment Type

Fixed Term

Duration

Duration 3 Months

About Us

National charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, trains dogs to transform the lives of deaf people and provides hearing loss services – because nobody with hearing loss should feel alone.

About The Role

Job Title: Onsite Canine Care Assistant
Location: The Grange, High Wycombe HP279NS

Contract Length: 1-3 months
Hours: 9 hour days shifts, 17 hour overnight shift with accommodation provided. Shifts available across weekdays and weekends
Responsible To: Regional Training Manager
Salary: £13.45 per hour

The Canine Care Assistant role contains aspects of the early dog training framework from eight-weeks whilst the puppy is based at the centre, until placed with a next stage volunteer and Dog Training Instructor.

Key Objectives:

Responsibility for the day to day running centre-based daycare activities, ensuring high quality routines, care and appropriate early learning and dog behaviour development. Focus is on early life skills of relaxed interactions and good rest patterns.

Ensure the dog’s social, emotional, and environmental development is optimised for the puppy’s age, so that as the dog moves to a volunteer training home, they can continue to develop and achieve a standard high enough to be placed in a working role.

Where an allocated puppy/young dog has a support volunteer ensure they receive the right level of support and advice for their personal situation.

Shifts are envisaged to be available in the following patterns but are subject to change:

Shift Pattern – Weekdays and Weekends
8.30am – 5.30pm
4.30pm - 9.30am (inclusive of overnight stays in provided accommodation, limited responsibilities as puppies will be asleep)

Main Responsibilities:

Care for the health and development for a group of puppies. Follow our feeding, sleeping and early training plans to help our dog’s development

Maintain records of the pups in your care. This will include sleeping patterns, feeding routines, toileting routines, and training exercises.

Full hand over to teammates.

Delivering basic hands-on puppy training with specific dogs developing their social behaviour and handling to the required level as appropriate to their age.

Where relevant, providing support to volunteers on a one-to-one basis to all aspects of physical & social puppy development from allocated Hearing Dogs centre.

Ensure cleanliness and tidiness of puppy areas, toys and equipment and the wider working environment.

Ensure appropriate Health and safety and infection control to meet the needs of young puppies.

Communicate any urgent requirements to the Hearing Dogs Staff team and ensure thorough handovers at the end and beginning of shifts to maintain consistency of care.

Carry out any other reasonable duties associated with the welfare and wellbeing of the puppies in your care

About You

Person Specification:

In order to be effective in this role, it is expected the Puppy Care Support will have the following skills and competencies:

Communication skills (spoken and written)

An ability to report information on puppy development both verbally and report writing

Organisational skills

Manage, prioritise and calmly deliver a range of demands on a day-to-day basis

Have a good appreciation of record keeping, forward planning and time management

Ability to work with minimum supervision, problem solve and handle people and situations with tact and diplomacy.

This role suits individuals that enjoy multi-skilling in a role with defined deadlines combined with changing priorities.

Interpersonal skills

Work successfully and collaboratively with team colleagues and ensure good handovers of duties between colleagues

Information Technology skills

IT competency is essential

A good level of literacy is required

Experience

Experience of puppy husbandry and preventive healthcare routines

Knowledge of canine behaviour and training techniques

Animal Care/Management Qualifications

Experience of puppy training

Please note:

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 due to its duties involving the protection of children and/or adults licants are therefore required to disclose all spent and unspent convictions, cautions, warnings, and reprimands, as well as any relevant non-conviction information. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check in accordance with the Police Act 1997 (Part V)