Employer: Dogs for Good

Job Title: Instructor

Job Location: North west – home based with regular travel

Salary: Salary up to £23,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Job Description:

The Instructor’s key role is building the relationship between a client and their dog in order to help realise the client’s independence and life aspirations without compromising the needs of the dog. It is a fantastic opportunity to work with people from different backgrounds who have a variety of needs, personalities and personal experiences and to help unlock their potential through our available services, which often leads to one of our assistance dogs. It is also an opportunity for applicants to fulfil their dream of teaching, working with and maintaining the wellbeing of a wide range of dogs, specifically supporting those that become life changing assistance dogs.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Guiding and supporting application enquiries to match a person’s needs and aspirations to the services available across the charity.
• Assessing clients in their homes to understand their physical needs and suitability for an Assistance Dog.
• Participate in the matching process of client to dog.
• Deliver a specialist client focused service to existing and new partnerships, providing teaching and coaching to help our clients realise their full potential with a dog.
• Participate in continued teaching and evaluation of our dogs throughout their life by providing ongoing support and guidance to our clients.

Full training and continual development is provided and available. Equipment and uniform is also provided.

The role will involve regular travel to clients within England and Wales and will require the successful applicant to occasionally work outside of core hours to meet the needs of our clients and their dogs. A vehicle is provided for work use.

The successful candidate will:

• Be able to demonstrate credible experience and / or qualifications working with physically disabled adults and children.
• Have proven experience in understanding and resolving dog behaviour and be able to coach others to achieve solutions and goals.
• Be well organised and disciplined in their approach to achieving goals.
• Be able to work with a high degree of personal responsibility.
• Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Have the skills to develop relationships with colleagues, clients and supporters of the Charity.

Ideally, candidates will already be working in a similar role for an AD(UK) or ADI member organisation, although this is not an essential requirement for the role.

For further information regarding this vacancy, please email Kelly Jennings, Services Manager on kelly.jennings@dogsforgood.org

Accompanying dogs in the charity’s vehicles is part of the job, so a full driving licence is preferred but, where applicable, we will work with the chosen candidate to find alternative solutions in those instances where reasonable adjustments are required.

Please note that we cannot employ anyone under 18 years of age.

Dogs for Good have a generous contributory pension scheme, death in service benefit and an income protection plan, after a qualifying period. Employees are entitled to 25 days holiday per year (plus Bank Holidays), which increases with every five years’ service completed up to a maximum of 31 days holiday after 20 years’ service. Dogs for Good is committed to staff continuing their learning and CPD is regularly reviewed.

Application Deadline: Applications for the vacancy will close at noon on Friday 22 November 2024.

First interviews will be held on Tuesday 3 or Thursday 5 December 2024 via Microsoft Teams.

Second interviews will be held on Tuesday 10 December 2024 at Dogs for Good’s Head Office in Banbury.

Please ensure that you are available for interview on these dates as they cannot be changed

Application Details: Please apply via the website link below

Website Link: https://www.dogsforgood.org/about-us/current-vacancies/instructor-north-west/