Dog Wellbeing Technician

We’re looking for a Dog Wellbeing Technician to join our team in Sheffield and play a key role in ensuring our dogs receive the specialist care they need while they prepare to support people with sight loss in leading confident, independent lives.

In this hands-on role, you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day care of a group of dogs at our site, ensuring their health and wellbeing needs are met to the highest standards. From managing routine husbandry to monitoring behavioural development, your work will directly support our dogs as they progress through their training journey. You’ll work in line with national wellbeing procedures, deliver specialist healthcare support, and ensure any concerns are identified and acted upon swiftly.

Your role will also involve working closely with volunteers and colleagues, offering guidance, technical input, and mentorship to help them succeed in their roles. You’ll support dog fostering and wellbeing volunteers, deliver training and education on routine canine healthcare, and communicate important updates to internal and external stakeholders, including guide dog owners. Whether you're interpreting health data to identify local trends, transporting dogs for appointments, or helping a volunteer feel confident in their role, every day will be varied and full of purpose.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about animal care, confident working with dogs of all temperaments, and capable of supporting both people and animals with empathy and expertise. You’ll need to be observant, organised, and proactive, with great communication skills and a strong commitment to animal welfare.

This role will be based on site at our Sheffield office. You’ll be working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday on a rota basis between the hours of 7.15 am – 5.30 pm with a 1-hour lunch break.

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.  

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 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.

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.

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.