Key responsibilities:

• 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 to nervous or fearful dogs.
• Monitoring dog behaviour, disengaging unwanted behaviour as well as notifying team and manager
• Moving equipment between fields.
• Chatting to clients that may visit the Day Care Centre and to customers that drop off and pick up their dog from Bruce’s.
• 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.
• Assisting the drivers and boarders loading and unloading dogs into the vans.
• Picking up dog faeces, using dog bags provided by Management.
• Cleaning and maintaining the indoor areas, outdoor areas, office, pools, agility equipment.
• Taking out rubbish.
• Cleaning bathrooms and/or porta-loos (not the porta-loo toilet, only the porta-loo housing)
• Moving equipment between fields.
• Taking pictures of the dogs in each of the fields, uploading them onto albums in the CRM and tagging the individual dogs in photographs to be sent to customers.
• Assisting a driver to collecting dogs from owners’ houses using a company vehicle.

Ideal Candidate:

• Someone who enjoys dogs company and be comfortable handling dogs
• Be happy working outdoors, in all weather
• Can demonstrate that you can deliver great customer service
• Be well presented, well spoken with good communication skills
• Demonstrate that you are reliable and trustworthy
• Must be happy to have a CRB check as required
• Have a passion for working with dogs and be able to demonstrate this
• Must work well in a team and be able multi-task and work proactively