3 Animal Welfare jobs in the United Kingdom
Animal Care Assistant - Weekends
Newport
Vets Now
Posted 18 days ago
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The Vacancy
Animal Care Assistant
£12.60ph plus benefits
Join the Team at Vets Now - Providing Exceptional Emergency Pet Care
Vets Now is the UK's leading provider of emergency pet care, serving over 1700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out-of-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. Join our clinic team in Newport and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide.
Role and Responsibilities
As an Animal Care Assistant at Vets Now, you will play a crucial role in assisting our clinical teams with providing a comfortable and stress-free in-patient environment whilst negotiating busy shifts in an emergency clinic. Your responsibilities will include:
Working pattern
Week 1: Saturday 18:00-23:00 and Sunday 18:00-23:00
Week 2: Off
Week 3: Saturday 18:00-23:00 and Sunday 18:00-23:00
Plus, a fair share of
Animal Care Assistant
£12.60ph plus benefits
Join the Team at Vets Now - Providing Exceptional Emergency Pet Care
Vets Now is the UK's leading provider of emergency pet care, serving over 1700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out-of-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. Join our clinic team in Newport and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide.
Role and Responsibilities
As an Animal Care Assistant at Vets Now, you will play a crucial role in assisting our clinical teams with providing a comfortable and stress-free in-patient environment whilst negotiating busy shifts in an emergency clinic. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working under the guidance of Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons.
- Handling patients for basic procedures and assisting with running diagnostic tests.
- Assisting in setting up and clearing down theatres for surgical procedures.
- Ensuring all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.
Working pattern
Week 1: Saturday 18:00-23:00 and Sunday 18:00-23:00
Week 2: Off
Week 3: Saturday 18:00-23:00 and Sunday 18:00-23:00
Plus, a fair share of
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Teaching Assistant - Landbased and Animal Care
BA20 Yeovil, South West
The Cambian Group
Posted 8 days ago
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Contract: Temporary - 12 Months Maternity Cover
Hours: 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.
Lufton College
Cambian Lufton College is a specialist residential education provider for 16 to 25 year olds with ASD, learning disabilities and complex behavioural and emotional needs. The college provides a 2-3 year pathway to prepare our students for adulthood, equipping them with the skills and qualities required to lead a fulfilled, independent and ambitious life.
Purpose and Summary of the Job
To support the delivery of the Landbased and Animal Care curriculums, by providing and leading enrichment sessions, in session support to engage and progress learning for students as a support for the Tutor/Teachers and 1-1 support to students throughout their educational day.
To provide additional support in the specified curriculum area, supporting the Tutors/Teachers with resources, session delivery and planning.
To provide practical support for the department, including assisting with animal care tasks such as feeding, preparing animal housing, performing health checks, and managing the physical environment and resources. This will involve weekend work, as part of a rota to cover animal care tasks during the weekend. This role is contracted permanently for 52 weeks.
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate would be required to work alternative weekends throughout the year as agreed with the Animal Care Technician and Tutor as part of your weekly working hours, with a reduced weekday timetable to provide necessary care to the animals, this would include tasks such as feeding, cleaning and medical support.
Requirements
No previous experience is necessary but a passion and commitment to gain the required skills, knowledge and experience is vital.
A qualification in Safeguarding and/or relevant qualifications e.g. Animal Husbandry are desirable as well as experience of working within a similar setting.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
If you want to learn from and work with a highly specialist, incredibly proud and integrated team that unlocks the potential of young people, then please talk to us.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
Job Description:
Job_Description_Landbased_and_Animal_Care_Teaching_Assistant_April_25.docx
Hours: 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.
Lufton College
Cambian Lufton College is a specialist residential education provider for 16 to 25 year olds with ASD, learning disabilities and complex behavioural and emotional needs. The college provides a 2-3 year pathway to prepare our students for adulthood, equipping them with the skills and qualities required to lead a fulfilled, independent and ambitious life.
Purpose and Summary of the Job
To support the delivery of the Landbased and Animal Care curriculums, by providing and leading enrichment sessions, in session support to engage and progress learning for students as a support for the Tutor/Teachers and 1-1 support to students throughout their educational day.
To provide additional support in the specified curriculum area, supporting the Tutors/Teachers with resources, session delivery and planning.
To provide practical support for the department, including assisting with animal care tasks such as feeding, preparing animal housing, performing health checks, and managing the physical environment and resources. This will involve weekend work, as part of a rota to cover animal care tasks during the weekend. This role is contracted permanently for 52 weeks.
Key Responsibilities
- To assist the Animal Care Technician with animal care tasks, and to support the ongoing maintenance of the animal care environment.
- To assistant with resources and maintenance of land-based areas as instructed.
- Show flexibility and differentiation when working across all ability levels, supporting all students to engage in learning opportunities.
- Ensure all students are working towards their agreed accreditations.
- Maintain effective partnerships with parent/carers to promote students' learning and to provide information to parents about achievements and progress.
- Help produce quality displays around the college and ensure that they are updated regularly.
- Support students in a range of activities both on and off site.
- Provide support and care for the students throughout the educational day, as required and in line with support plans.
- Assisting with therapy programmes.
- Supervise and provide support for all students ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
The successful candidate would be required to work alternative weekends throughout the year as agreed with the Animal Care Technician and Tutor as part of your weekly working hours, with a reduced weekday timetable to provide necessary care to the animals, this would include tasks such as feeding, cleaning and medical support.
Requirements
No previous experience is necessary but a passion and commitment to gain the required skills, knowledge and experience is vital.
A qualification in Safeguarding and/or relevant qualifications e.g. Animal Husbandry are desirable as well as experience of working within a similar setting.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
If you want to learn from and work with a highly specialist, incredibly proud and integrated team that unlocks the potential of young people, then please talk to us.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
Job Description:
Job_Description_Landbased_and_Animal_Care_Teaching_Assistant_April_25.docx
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Animal Care Assistant - Weekends
Glasgow, Scotland
Vets Now
Posted 2 days ago
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The Vacancy
Animal Care Assistant - Weekends
£12.60ph plus benefits
Join our 24/7 emergency and specialty referral hospital in Glasgow
Vets Now are the UK's leading provider of emergency pet care, providing a trusted service to more than 1400 veterinary practices - from 58 dedicated out-of-hours clinics and three 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. You will be joining a dedicated team of Vets, Nurses, Animal Care Assistants, Receptionists in our 24/7 emergency and specialty referral Glasgow Hospital. The Vets Now Pet Emergency Hospital in Glasgow provides both a first-class referral service and an out-of-hours emergency service for veterinary practices in and around Glasgow
Develop your animal care career with Vets Now
An animal care assistant is invaluable on a busy out-of-hours shift in the hospital. As an animal care assistant at Vets Now, you will be trained in assisting the clinical teams to provide a comfortable and stress free, in-patient environment. Under the guidance of our Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons, you can expect to be handling patients for basic procedures, assisting with running diagnostic tests and ensuring all pets in our care are as comfortable as they can be. You could be asked to help set up and clear down a theatre for surgical procedures, as well as making sure all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.
Rota pattern
We are looking for a skilled animal care assistant with a genuine passion for people and animals that can commit to the following rota pattern:
Every Saturday and Sunday from 07:00 to 17:00
What we offer in return for your hard work and dedication
Recognising hard work is really important to us. Our employees are our greatest asset which is why we offer a first-class benefits and rewards package that includes:
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
The Company
As the UK's leading pet emergency service, we have a route to an exciting career in emergency and critical care for veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses, no matter where you are in your career.
Vets Now was founded by Richard Dixon, a veterinary surgeon who understood the pressures of being on-call which also trying to maintain a good quality of life.
Today, almost two decades since Richard did his first out-of-hours shift, we're still just as passionate about emergency and critical care and our clinics are all managed by people who have worked as frontline vets or vet nurses.
In an emergency, pet owners want to know they've got the experts on board. And so do we.
Animal Care Assistant - Weekends
£12.60ph plus benefits
Join our 24/7 emergency and specialty referral hospital in Glasgow
Vets Now are the UK's leading provider of emergency pet care, providing a trusted service to more than 1400 veterinary practices - from 58 dedicated out-of-hours clinics and three 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. You will be joining a dedicated team of Vets, Nurses, Animal Care Assistants, Receptionists in our 24/7 emergency and specialty referral Glasgow Hospital. The Vets Now Pet Emergency Hospital in Glasgow provides both a first-class referral service and an out-of-hours emergency service for veterinary practices in and around Glasgow
Develop your animal care career with Vets Now
An animal care assistant is invaluable on a busy out-of-hours shift in the hospital. As an animal care assistant at Vets Now, you will be trained in assisting the clinical teams to provide a comfortable and stress free, in-patient environment. Under the guidance of our Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons, you can expect to be handling patients for basic procedures, assisting with running diagnostic tests and ensuring all pets in our care are as comfortable as they can be. You could be asked to help set up and clear down a theatre for surgical procedures, as well as making sure all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.
Rota pattern
We are looking for a skilled animal care assistant with a genuine passion for people and animals that can commit to the following rota pattern:
Every Saturday and Sunday from 07:00 to 17:00
What we offer in return for your hard work and dedication
Recognising hard work is really important to us. Our employees are our greatest asset which is why we offer a first-class benefits and rewards package that includes:
- 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Health Cash Plan provided by Simply Health
- UK Standard Pension contributions - 5% Employee/3% Employer
- Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
- Death in service of two times annual salary
- Membership of employee wellbeing programme
- Company sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
The Company
As the UK's leading pet emergency service, we have a route to an exciting career in emergency and critical care for veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses, no matter where you are in your career.
Vets Now was founded by Richard Dixon, a veterinary surgeon who understood the pressures of being on-call which also trying to maintain a good quality of life.
Today, almost two decades since Richard did his first out-of-hours shift, we're still just as passionate about emergency and critical care and our clinics are all managed by people who have worked as frontline vets or vet nurses.
In an emergency, pet owners want to know they've got the experts on board. And so do we.
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