Dog Warden and Cremation Assistant

7 months ago


Taunton, United Kingdom St Giles Animal Centre Full time

**An exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to work within a close knit team. A variable, interesting role working closely with the St Giles Vet practice and rescue team.**

Duties to include;
- Recording & maintaining documents and reports
- Dealing with stray dogs - Transportation of seized dogs
- Enforcing dog related legislation
- Promoting responsible dog ownership
- Educating members of the public
- Liaising, Training & working alongside Local county council & other agencies
- Boarding collections AM and PM
- Collection of individual cremations from veterinary practices
- Organising cremations for any collections on the day
- Creating engraving for plaques and collar tags
- Ensuring all vets have adequate stock of plastic bags and literature
- Element of Evening checks
- Ensuring phones are answered promptly
- Ensuring excellent communication between team members
- Ensuring cremations are double checked before leaving site
- Ensuring a good standard of equipment is upheld
- Quality control - Ensuring all cremations are to a high standard before leaving site
- General cover throughout site
- Full clean UK driving licence
- Be physically fit - there will be a lot of heavy lifting, some driving etc
- Ability to work as part of a team but predominantly by themselves
- Available to be part of the 'out of hours' and 'on call' rota
- Mature enough to handle people's pets in a caring, dignified and appropriate manner
- Have a good understanding of dog behaviour and be able to confidently handle dogs with a range of behavioural needs.

**Skills required**:

- A full clean driving license
- Excellent Admin Skills
- Excellent Organisational skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and telephone skills; Having the ability to think clearly and quickly to comfort customers.
- Be compassionate and have a love for animals
- Display a professional manner at all times.
- Be comfortable to handle and care for deceased pets.
- Be comfortable to operate machinery.
- A passion for and experience of animal handling, behaviour and welfare

**Hours**
33 per week, 1 in every 4 weekends

**Job Type**: Permanent

Pay: £25,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person



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