Day care assistant/dog walker
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Self employed |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 24 December 2025 |
| Location: | Ox 1 5ab |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Hot diggity dawg |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
• Supervising and providing mental and physical stimulation for the dogs, including: playing with dogs, walking dogs,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.
• Assisting new members of staff and work experience volunteers
• Chatting to clients that may visit the Day Care Centre and to customers that drop off and pick up their dog from Hot diggity dawg
• 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 loading and unloading dogs into the vans.
• Feeding dogs at appropriate times
• Administer any medication given by owner
• Picking up dog faeces, using dog bags provided by Management.
• Cleaning and maintaining the indoor areas, outdoor areas, office and vans.
Washing of dog bedding and towels.
• Taking out rubbish
• Moving equipment between fields.
• Taking pictures of the dogs in each of the fields, and sharing them on the group chat so they can be loaded onto the company's Facebook page.
• Driving to pick up and drop off dogs from owners' houses using a company vehicle.
• General maintenance around the centre
• Any other adhoc duties that are asked by the supervisor or manager
• Monitoring dog behaviour, disengaging unwanted behaviour as well as notifying team and manager
• Moving equipment between fields.
• Assisting new members of staff and work experience volunteers
• Chatting to clients that may visit the Day Care Centre and to customers that drop off and pick up their dog from Hot diggity dawg
• 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 loading and unloading dogs into the vans.
• Feeding dogs at appropriate times
• Administer any medication given by owner
• Picking up dog faeces, using dog bags provided by Management.
• Cleaning and maintaining the indoor areas, outdoor areas, office and vans.
Washing of dog bedding and towels.
• Taking out rubbish
• Moving equipment between fields.
• Taking pictures of the dogs in each of the fields, and sharing them on the group chat so they can be loaded onto the company's Facebook page.
• Driving to pick up and drop off dogs from owners' houses using a company vehicle.
• General maintenance around the centre
• Any other adhoc duties that are asked by the supervisor or manager