Canine Care Team

Canine Partners; Osgathorpe; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

Canine Partners in the United Kingdom is seeking a part-time role at our National Training Centre. You will help deliver high standards of welfare and care for dogs during their training, ensuring wellbeing, health monitoring and collaboration with trainers, fosterers and volunteers.

You will support daily routines, health checks, grooming, and welfare activities while promoting a compassionate and professional environment for both dogs and carers.

Qualifications

• Experience of providing high standard of dog/animal welfare.
• Practical experience working with dogs.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise under pressure and use initiative.
• Organisation and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Act as a specialist in canine welfare, husbandry, health monitoring and behavioural wellbeing, ensuring that every dog within Canine Partners receives exceptional standards of care throughout its training journey.
• Health checks, grooming, and bathing dogs, using consent-based training techniques.
• Liaising with partners at Matching Visits to discuss any health issues / pre-existing conditions and to go through partner-specific grooming requirements.
• Working with volunteers to ensure the dogs in kennels are looked after, focusing on their wellbeing, exercise and stimulation.

Skills

Dog welfare

Practical dog care

Communication

Teamwork

Autonomy

Job description

From Puppy to Partnership: Help Transform Lives

Make a tangible difference by working directly with our assistance dogs in training to help prepare them for their vital work to help create life-changing assistance dogs for disabled people.

About Canine Partners

At Canine Partners, we breed, train, and support expert assistance dogs to create loving, life-changing partnerships with disabled people. Across the UK, we support people with a variety of physical disabilities and their families, carefully matching them with a dog that suits their needs, personality, and lifestyle.

Our dogs bring confidence and independence, love and companionship, reducing reliance on carers and giving people the freedom to live life their own way.

The Role

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (Wednesday to Friday)

Location: Our National Training Centre in Loughborough

Travel: Use of charity vehicle to travel to vet appointments as required.

You will play a fundamental role in delivering the charity’s mission by ensuring that every dog’s wellbeing is the top priority throughout their time in assistance dog training at our National Training Centre. By maintaining consistently high standards of welfare and care, you will enable dogs to learn effectively, build confidence, and thrive during their training. Your work directly supports the charity’s goal of creating successful partnerships between dogs and their future partners. You will deliver preventative healthcare, monitors each dog’s physical and emotional wellbeing, and works closely with trainers to prepare dogs for partnership placement. You will also collaborate with fosterers, volunteers, and partners to ensure a consistent, high-quality approach to the wellbeing of our dogs.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as a specialist in canine welfare, husbandry, health monitoring and behavioural wellbeing, ensuring that every dog within Canine Partners receives exceptional standards of care throughout its training journey.
• Health checks, grooming, and bathing dogs, using consent-based training techniques.
• Liaising with partners at Matching Visits to discuss any health issues / pre-existing conditions and to go through partner-specific grooming requirements.
• Working with volunteers to ensure the dogs in kennels are looked after, focusing on their wellbeing, exercise and stimulation.

About You

• Experience of providing high standard of dog/animal welfare.
• Practical experience working with dogs.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise under pressure and use initiative.
• Organisation and attention to detail.

Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.

Ready to Make a Difference?

We recognise the benefit of diverse experience and welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.