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Worcester - 39 Hours:

Join the Pets at Home Group, where you'll enjoy a
competitive base pay, with
opportunities to earn the Real Living Wage (or more) through our Earn As You Learn training programmes, as well as being able to achieve
additional pay supplements through extra training.

At Pets at Home, we have an ambitious plan to become "
The Best Pet Care Business in the world", and a key part of delivering this in a sustainable way will be our
most cherished assets:our People and our Culture
.

We are a business built on strong values and behaviours which guide everything we do.

These are the foundations that will help us to deliver Our Better World Pledge**, to create a better world for pets and the people who love them.

We are delighted to have recently won "
Best Place to Work" and "
Best Retailer" at the Retail Week Awards These are prestigious awards within the Retail Industry, and we couldn't be prouder to be winners.

We were also shortlisted in three 2021 Personnel Today Award categories, including "
Employee Benefits Award",
"Family Friendly Employer of the Year", and we were also winners of the "
HR Team of the Year award"

The Pets at Home Group includes over 450 stores, over 310 Groom Rooms and 440 First Opinion Vet Practices. It's fast-paced, innovative, fun, and we put people at the very heart of everything we do.

Our culture is friendly and inclusive. Each one of our teams is unique because we welcome everyone, and everyone can be themselves.

If you share our belief that together 'we're better with pets', we'd like to hear from you, whatever your background or circumstances.

Click here
to read our Values & Behaviours

As a Trainee Dog Groomer, you'll deliver the very highest standard of pet care. Your primary responsibility will be the prepping and bathing of pets, as well as clipping their nails in preparation for the Dog Groomer/Salon Manager to carry out the required groom.

We will give you the training, skills, and knowledge to enable you to provide our customers with service that reflects our goals of being the 'Best Pet Care Business in the World'.

• Experienced ideally in working with or handling pets in a professional grooming or pet care environment (please note that bathing and prepping your own pet does not qualify as professional experience)
• Qualified having either grooming or pet related qualification would also be beneficial.
• A great team player who has a real passion for pets.
• Hungry to be part of a successful salon, you'll be proactive in your approach.
• Flexible. Due to the nature of working within a busy retail environment, we need you to have the ability to work a flexible shift pattern, across 6 days a week (we are closed on Sundays). You'll be offered a minimum contract of 39 hours, but often required to work more hours to cover busy periods, absence, and holidays.

Your Benefits

We reward and recognise our colleagues in ways that matter to them
Our benefits are designed to support your mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing, both now and in the future.

Here are some of our benefits which may be available to you:

• A discretional
  annual bonus
  scheme available to all hourly paid colleagues.

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Paid Holidays: all colleagues will receive
at least 28 days paid annual leave which will rise to
33 days after 2 years (*this includes 8 bank holidays and will be pro rata calculated on your contracted hours)
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The company will contribute at least 3.5% of your salary into you company pension plan and most colleagues can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice pension scheme

• We've given all colleagues access to
  recognise and
  celebrate your teams and colleague's achievements through peertopeer ecards on our online recognition and benefits platform. You can also nominate your colleagues or teams to win colleague or team of the month

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Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave:

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  An additional day's paid leave for your Birthday

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An additional day's paid leave to welcome your new pet into your family, which we like to call your "Pet-ernity" day (if you have a new dog, horse or cat in the family)
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An additional day's paid leave to carry out Your Better World Pledge day which enables colleagues to provide significant value and non-financial support to pets, people and our planet within their local community.
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An additional week's paid leave (pro rata) to celebrate your wedding or civil partnership.

• A
  gift from us if you are expecting or adopting a baby

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Long service awards and gits to celebrate service anniversaries between years.
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Colleague discounts for all Pets at Home Group brands, within our Pets at Home stores, The Groom Room, Vets4Pets and online.
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Discounted pet insurance as part of our ongoing partnership with _Petplan_
- access to our **Cyc

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