Career Change and Rehoming Specialist (Community) in Scotland | Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

About The Role This is a home-based role with the expectation of travel throughout Scotland Northern Ireland, as and when required. Travel will be required to support volunteer training, assessment of dogs, carry out in-person visits to volunteers and applicant homes, and build a strong network of volunteers across the area. The Career Change and Rehoming Specialists (Community) will be working with dogs who have been withdrawn for health reason and or minor behavioural complexities and will need to utilise their knowledge of health conditions, as well as using their skills in dog behaviour and volunteer and customer experience to identify the right role for each dog. Whether that s a career change internally supporting our Buddy Dog services or into a different Assistance Dog role, or matching them with a new owner as a much-loved pet. They will also support those ongoing non guiding partnerships and our dogs with more complex health conditions to live healthily, bringing comfort, companionship and loyalty until the end. They work closely in the community, collaborating with volunteers, vets and health teams and other alternative working career providers to ensure our investment within our dogs is maximised to change as many lives as possible. Career Change services encompass two functions; a Career Change and Rehoming Specialists On Site team, and Career Change and Rehoming Specialists Community based teams. These two teams work collaboratively with the rest of operations to support retired guide dogs, retired breeding stock and dogs that are not best suited to Guide Dog training, Guide Dog services or breeding programme. No two people with sight loss are the same, and none of our people are either. So, we are proud to offer a range of person-centred benefits that can support each member of staff in ways that really mean something to them and show them how much they mean to us. We offer a flexible benefits package, discounts and cashback scheme, a generous holiday allowance and matched contributory pension scheme to care for our people. You ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. About Us Trebuchet MS with Updated Inkey Blue How to apply Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page. 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 . As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions as part of this application process, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions. If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site. If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time. Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work. Safeguarding Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment. At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly. Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service. 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