Assistant Stylist - Trainee Dog Groomer

Pets at Home; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Groom Room team as an Assistant Stylist at a leading pet care company. This role involves providing exceptional grooming services in a busy environment, with extensive training provided. Suitable candidates will be passionate about pets and customer service, ensuring top-notch care for furry clients.

Benefits

Attractive rates of pay plus commission

Certified iPet Level 3 training programme

28 days paid annual leave

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

Qualifications

• Passionate about delivering great service.
• Experience working with dogs is desirable.
• Ideally has experience in a customer-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of pet care in grooming salons.
• Demonstrate understanding of handling techniques and equipment usage.
• Support growth with comprehensive training and development.

Skills

Customer Service

Flexibility

Job description

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Full-time, £13.46 - £13.46 per hour

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Salary: £13.46 - £13.46 per hour

Hours: Full-time

Contracted Hours: 39

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: 2, 100 Blackheath Road, Blackheath, London, Greater London, SE10 8DA

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
• A certified iPet Level 3 training programme and qualification.
• 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: 07-05-2025

Expiry Date: 05-05-2035

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