Cat Care Volunteer

1 week ago


Bournemouth, United Kingdom Pause Charity Full time

Pause Cat Cafe in Bournemouth aims to improve lives by promoting kindness through animal welfare, ethical eating, volunteering and community projects.

Pause Cat Cafe is looking for cat lovers to join our cat care team. Our main priority at Pause is cat welfare, so volunteers provide and maintain a high standard of care and quality for all of our cats and visitors in a safe and happy environment. You will graciously offer care, enrichment, stability and security to all our cats. Team members who have shifts during the cafe’s opening times also help with customer service and ensuring safe interaction between cats and visitors. All members of the team are expected to follow our mission of kindness to all humans and animals.

**Shift Times**
- We are looking to fill Tuesday evenings, 5:30-8:30pm and Wednesday mornings, 9-12pm.
- Please note that initial trial shifts and training shifts for cat care must take place either 9am-12pm or 5:30pm-8:30pm so that you can gain full experience of the feeding and cleaning routine. Please also be aware that reliability and attendance is crucial as the safety of our kitties depends on it.
- Training may be on other days depending on the availability of our mentors.

**Responsibilities**

Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to;
- Keeping the cats healthy and happy during your shift by keeping a watchful eye over them and noticing any changes in behaviour, which will be consequently logged and taken care of by welfare staff.
- Feeding, cleaning and health checks for the cats (full training provided)
- Keeping all areas clean and hygienic (including the private cat quarters)

**Requirements**:
Desirable
- Relevant experience and/ or qualification within animal care
- Experience in working with the public
- Good level of English (B2 minimum)
- A love of cats and passion for their welfare

**Additional Needs**

Here at Pause, everybody gets treated equally. We are Disability Confident Employers, and are committed to welcoming people with disabilities. There are always alternate ways to do any task given, and we do our best to accommodate people who have any disabilities by making reasonable adjustments to the job. We aim to help every member of the team be open and supportive of different abilities, nurturing a Disability Confident culture.

We will support any team member with managing mental health, disabilities or other health conditions, this includes encouraging people to be open about their support needs; providing any reasonable adjustments necessary and ensuring these issues provide no barriers to the development and progression; ensuring the manager is aware of how to support staff, and valuing and listening to all feedback given from team members.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Volunteer

Schedule:

- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bournemouth, BH1 1EP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Animal Care Volunteer



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