Breeding Dog Wellbeing Technician

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. A full UK Manual Driving Licence is essential, or you should be able to demonstrate an alternative means of fulfilling travel requirements.

No two people with sight loss are the same, and none of our people are either. So, we are proud to offer a range of person-centred benefits that can support each member of staff in ways that really mean something to them – and show them how much they mean to us. We offer a flexible benefits package, discounts and cashback scheme, a generous holiday allowance and matched contributory pension scheme to care for our people.  

This role will be based at our National Centre near Leamington. A typical day starts at 7:30am and finishes at 3:30am but also includes weekends, evening and overnight duties on a rostered basis including Bank Holidays.

How to apply 

Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions as part of this application process, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.