Assistant Stylist

Pets at Home; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading pet care company as an Assistant Stylist in our Groom Room team. This full-time role involves providing top-notch grooming services and pet care while benefitting from comprehensive training and competitive pay. We're looking for passionate individuals with a love for pets and excellent customer service skills to enhance our team.

Benefits

Attractive pay plus commission

28 days paid annual leave, rising to 33 after 2 years

Extra day off for birthday

Life Assurance - 4 times annual salary

Company pension contribution of 4%

Colleague discount of 20% across the Group

Qualifications

• Experience in professional dog grooming or pet care environment preferred.
• Ability to work flexible shifts including weekends, except Sundays.
• Experience in customer-facing roles beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality pet care and grooming services.
• Demonstrate understanding of grooming techniques and equipment use.
• Prepare dogs for grooming and ensure excellent customer service.

Skills

Service Delivery

Flexibility

Dog Handling

Customer Service

Working in Target Driven Environment

Job description

Full-time,

Ref: 32165

Hours: Full-time

Contracted Hours: 39

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: 1B, Beach Boulevard Retail Park, Links Road, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB11 5EJ

Description

Join Our Groom Room Team: Assistant Stylist Wanted!

About Us

At Pets at Home, we’re passionate about pets and it shows. Our Pet Care Centres across the UK include grooming salons, retail stores, and veterinary practices, all dedicated to delivering the very best care and exceptional care for pets and the people who love them.

We believe in creating welcoming, supportive environments where team members can thrive. If you share our love for pets and our commitment to excellence, we’d love to meet you.

The Role

Our Assistant Stylists are critical to the success of our Pets Grooming salons. You'll deliver the very highest standard of pet care, whilst demonstrating a basic understanding of technical concepts relating to preparing and clipping of a dog for grooming, including handling techniques, using equipment, and pre-grooming preparation.

We will give you the training, skills, and knowledge to provide our customers with service that reflects our goals of being the 'Best Pet Care Business in the World'. You'll enjoy a competitive base pay and we’ll support your growth with comprehensive training and development opportunities, including our Earn as You Learn programmes and additional skill-based pay enhancements.

We’re Seeking Individuals Who Are

• People who arepassionate about delivering a great service.
• 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 will receive a minimum contract of 39 hours, but you will often be required to work more hours to cover busy periods, absences, and holidays.
• Experience of working with, or handling dogs in a professional dog grooming or pet care environment is desirable, but not always essential (please note that bathing and prepping your own dog does not qualify as professional experience). Ideally has experience of working within a customer-facing environment.
• Preferably you will have worked in target driven environment, but if not, happy to work in one.
  
  

Why Join Us?

We reward and recognise our colleagues in ways that matter to them.Our benefits reflect our support of your mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing, both now and in the future. Here are some of our benefits which may be available to you:

• Attractive rates of pay plus commission, *subject to targets
• 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)
• Extra day off for your birthday
• Life Assurance - 4 times your annual salary
• Company pension contribution of 4%
• Colleague discount of 20% across the Group (Pets at Home, Pets Grooming, Vets for Pets), including 30% off on own bran
  
  

“Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!”

Together, we’re better with pets.

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Organisation: The Groom Room

Date Posted: 29-05-2025

Expiry Date: 27-05-2035

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