Employer: Guide Dogs

Job Title: Dog Wellbeing Technician

Job Location: London

Salary: Dog Wellbeing Technician

Hours: 35 hours per week

Job Description:

As a Dog Wellbeing Technician at Guide Dogs, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the highest standards of dog health, wellbeing and specialist care. The Dog Wellbeing Technician will be an expert in canine wellbeing and husbandry, with strong knowledge of dog health, behaviour, welfare standards and positive handling techniques. You’ll use your expertise to make informed decisions, identify and escalate health concerns, and coach colleagues and volunteers in best practice dog care. Our Dog Wellbeing Technicians play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.

This role will be based on-site at our London office. You will work 35 hours per week, with shifts scheduled on a rota basis between Monday and Friday. The shift patterns are 07:30 – 13:30 and 11:00 – 19:00, with some flexibility required to work outside of these hours.

Key Responsibilities

· Responsible for managing the care of a group of dogs in a dog accommodation area, ensuring their routine husbandry needs are met.

· Work in line with national dog wellbeing practices and procedures, including the provision of specialist health care.

· Monitor and maximise the wellbeing of dogs. Identify health concerns, make appropriate decisions and escalate in a timely manner.

· Support the development and maintenance of the dog’s behaviour using current guide dogs handling techniques.

· Lead and support volunteers in dog wellbeing and fostering to complete their role and tasks to the best of their ability. Provide technical input to support their preparation, performance and development.

· Maintain accurate and up to date records. Interpret health data and identify concerns/trends within the local dog population.

· Transport dogs across the region for health-related appointments with internal and external bodies.

You:

You’ll have a person‑centred, expert and optimistic approach to your work, grounded in a strong understanding of animal wellbeing and dog care principles. You’ll enjoy working in a kennel and dog accommodation environment, supporting colleagues and volunteers, with a dedicated focus on dog health, wellbeing, behaviour and positive handling techniques, whilst being committed to delivering the highest standards of care. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

· A qualification in animal care, experience or equivalent relevant work-based experience.

· Able to undertake physical demands of the role, walking distances unaided and able to handle and walk with a range of dog breeds, ages, sizes and temperaments.

· Able to meet the travel requirements of the role which involves transporting dogs on a regular basis. In the absence of a full valid UK Driving License, you will be expected to demonstrate how you will fulfil this aspect of the role via alternative means.

· Experience of working in a kennel type environment – paid employment or voluntary.

· Experience of supporting a customer serving based organisation.

· Proven understanding of the core principles of animal wellbeing.

· Demonstrable basic understanding of health and safety and safeguarding.

· Proven understanding of dog care principles and health conditions.

Application Deadline: 16 June 2026

Application Details: Please apply via the website link below. If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk. 

Website Link:

Dog Wellbeing Technician in London – Guide Dogs for the Blind Association