Doggy Day Care Driver

We are currently recruiting for a Driver Carer from North London for our North London Bruce's Centre.

**At Bruce’s we unleash happiness and enrich dogs’ lives. Founded in 2008, we have become the UK’s recognised leader in a sector that is experiencing exponential growth.**

**We’re fluent in dog. We go beyond ‘woof’ to a deep understanding of what makes each tail wag. We’re always striving to learn more about dogs and to care for them better. Our expertise means that we allow dogs to be dogs, and everything we do is dog-first. Dogs are our moral compass.**

**Our centres are divided into classes based on size and play style such as Agility Adventures, featuring agility obstacles to unlock the doggy senses and Curiosity Corner with a sensory zone and open spaces to run and play with canine companions.**

We are now recruiting for a loyal, motivated full time Carer/Driver who will love being surrounded by dogs, caring for their safe and healthy transportation to and from day care and provide our customers with outstanding service for our customers.
The route will be for our Shepherds Bush customers where you will collecting and dropping off dogs from the area and then transport them to our North London Daycare centre in Hemel Hempstead.
Then spending the day with them in field providing them with off lead enrichment and fun until they are dropped home.
As the route starts in Shepherds Bush, it is preferable that you live in or around the Shepherds Bush area.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Collecting and dropping off the dogs using the Bruce’s doggy buses
- Maintaining a clean, comfortable and hygienic doggy bus (including cleaning the dogs down when it's muddy)
- Supporting the Carers in maintaining our fantastic farmland site
- Supervising and providing mental and physical stimulation for the dogs, including: playing with dogs, walking dogs, supervising dogs swimming in the pool and being attentive too nervous or fearful dogs.
- Monitoring dog behaviour, disengaging unwanted behaviour as well as notifying team and manager
- Moving equipment between fields.
- Liaising clients that may visit the Day Care Centre
- Interacting to customers that drop off and pick up their dog from the Day Care Centre.
- Delivering the weekly engagement plan by following the brief given by managers. This also requires using your initiative but never at the cost of the dog’s safety or dog to Carer ratio.
- Bathing, washing and towelling dogs prior to drop off.
- Cleaning and maintaining the indoor areas, outdoor areas, office, pools, agility equipment.
- Ensuring a safe and clean environment in both the fields and cabins. This is not limited to taking out rubbish and cleaning up after the dogs.
- Moving equipment between fields.
- Taking pictures of the dogs in each of the fields using cameras owned by Bruce’s Doggy Day Care, uploading them onto albums in the CRM and tagging the individual dogs in photographs to be sent to customers.
- Enjoy dogs company and be comfortable handling dogs
- Have a clean UK manual driving license
- Be confident in working as a full time, commercial driver
- Be happy working outdoors, in all weather
- Can demonstrate that you can deliver great customer service
- Be well presented, well spoken with good English and communication skills
- Demonstrate that you are reliable and trustworthy
- Must be happy to have a DBS and thorough references check

**What you get in return**:

- Lots of dogs to play with and cuddle
- Competitive salary
- Busy Bees Benefits including retail discounts, experience days and employee assistance programme
- Pension contributions
- Working in an idyllic, rural location
- Ongoing professional development

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,465.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Are you happy to work outside in all weathers?

**Experience**:

- dog handling: 1 year (preferred)
- Commercial driving: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: On the road