9 Animal Handling jobs in the United Kingdom
Remote Animal Welfare Officer
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Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct investigations into reported cases of animal neglect, cruelty, and abuse, gathering evidence and documenting findings.
- Provide expert advice and support to pet owners, animal carers, and the public on responsible animal ownership and welfare issues.
- Develop and deliver educational materials and workshops on animal welfare topics.
- Collaborate with veterinary professionals, local authorities, and other welfare organizations to ensure comprehensive care and intervention for animals in need.
- Contribute to the development and review of animal welfare policies and procedures.
- Monitor and assess the welfare conditions of animals in various settings, recommending improvements.
- Advocate for improved animal welfare legislation and practices.
- Maintain accurate and confidential records of investigations, assessments, and communications.
- Respond to inquiries and concerns via phone, email, and digital platforms.
- Stay abreast of current legislation, research, and best practices in animal welfare science.
Required Qualifications:
- Degree in Animal Science, Veterinary Nursing, Zoology, or a related field; or equivalent extensive experience.
- Proven experience in animal welfare, investigation, or enforcement roles.
- In-depth knowledge of animal behavior, physiology, and welfare needs across various species.
- Familiarity with animal welfare legislation and ethical considerations.
- Excellent investigative, observational, and analytical skills.
- Strong report-writing and documentation abilities.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to handle sensitive situations with empathy, professionalism, and discretion.
- Proficiency in using digital communication tools and databases.
- A deep commitment to animal welfare and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
Remote Volunteer Coordinator - Animal Welfare Charity
Posted 22 days ago
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Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement strategies for volunteer recruitment across various platforms.
- Screen, onboard, and train new volunteers, providing clear guidance on their roles and responsibilities.
- Coordinate volunteer schedules and assignments, ensuring adequate coverage for all operational needs.
- Maintain accurate volunteer records and databases.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for volunteers, offering ongoing support and guidance.
- Organize and facilitate virtual volunteer engagement activities and training sessions.
- Recognize and appreciate volunteer contributions to foster retention.
- Liaise with different departments within the charity to identify volunteer needs.
- Assist with the development of volunteer policies and procedures.
- Promote the charity's mission and values to potential and existing volunteers.
- Proven experience in volunteer management, coordination, or a related HR/support role, preferably within a non-profit setting.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and active listening skills.
- Strong organizational and time-management abilities.
- Proficiency in using virtual communication tools (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams) and CRM software.
- A genuine passion for animal welfare and the mission of the charity.
- Ability to work independently and proactively in a remote environment.
- Experience in recruitment or training is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to build rapport and motivate individuals.
- A reliable internet connection and a suitable home working environment.
Dispensing Assistant Pet Care Division
Posted 19 days ago
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Role: Dispensing Assistant Pet Care Division
Location: Bardon LE67
Salary: £ 13,10 per hour plus extensive benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Employment type: Full time
Working hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 09:00am -18:00pm
Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.6 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.
Candidates must hold a Level 2 NVQ Dispensing qualification to apply.
As a vital member of our pharmacy team, you will play a key role in supporting the daily preparation and dispensing of veterinary prescriptions. Your focus will be on ensuring medications are dispensed safely, accurately, and efficiently. This includes labelling prescriptions, managing stock levels, and maintaining a clean, organized pharmacy environment. You’ll be expected to meet and exceed key performance indicators (KPIs), consistently delivering work to the highest standards in line with our company objectives.
What’s in it for you?
Occupational sick pay
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Contributory pension
Discounted insurance (Aviva)
Employee discount site
Discounted gyms (via our blue light card and benefits schemes)
Employee assistance programme
In-house mental health support
Free onsite parking
Health and wellbeing initiatives
Social events throughout the year
Cycle to work scheme
Green car scheme*(subject to minimum earnings)
Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc)
Long service bonus
Refer a friend bonus
Blue light card
Commitment to CPD/training
25 days annual leave increasing with service
Annual leave buy and sell scheme
Discounts & Exclusive offers at The Springs, Leeds
25% Discount & health & beauty purchases
25% Discount on Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor Services
What you’ll be doing?
- Accurately dispense veterinary medications in line with company procedures and quality standards
- Ensure full compliance with legal, ethical, professional, and internal dispensary requirements
- Manage stock levels and support inventory control to maintain efficient operations
- Take ownership of prescription labelling and ensure accuracy at every stage
- Collaborate effectively with pharmacists, customer service, and operations teams
- Work with precision in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- Contribute to a positive, friendly, and relaxed team culture
- Undertake SQP (Suitably Qualified Person) training as part of your professional development
Who are we looking for?
- Someone with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to dispensing medication accurately and safely
- A confident communicator who can work effectively with pharmacists, customer service, and operations teams
- A proactive individual who takes initiative and thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- A team player who supports colleagues and contributes to a positive, friendly workplace culture
- Someone who is IT literate, quick to learn new systems, and comfortable using Excel at an intermediate level
- A highly organised person who can prioritise tasks and manage their workload efficiently
- A professional who understands and adheres to legal, ethical, and company standards
- An ambitious candidate who is eager to learn, grow, and complete SQP (Suitably Qualified Person) training
What happens next?
Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.
Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.
All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.
Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.
Animal Care Assistant
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Animal Care Assistant – Nightshift
£13.16ph plus benefits
Join the Team at Vets Now – Providing Exceptional Emergency Pet Care
Vets Now is the UK's leading provider of emergency pet care, serving over 1700 veterinary practices through 60 plus dedicated out-of-hours clinics and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals. Join our clinic team in Eastbourne and contribute to the vital emergency and critical care service we provide.
Key Responsibilities
As an Animal Care Assistant at Vets Now, you will play a crucial role in assisting our clinical teams with providing a comfortable and stress-free in-patient environment whilst negotiating busy shifts in an emergency clinic. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working under the guidance of Vet Nurses and Vet Surgeons.
- Handling patients for basic procedures and assisting with running diagnostic tests.
- Assisting in setting up and clearing down theatres for surgical procedures.
- Ensuring all in-patients have their basic husbandry needs attended to.
Rota Pattern
Week 1: Thursday 11pm-9am, Friday 11pm-9am
Week 2: Tuesday 11pm-9am, Wednesday 11pm-9am
Week 3: Saturday 11pm-8am, Sunday 7pm-9am
Plus, a share of bank holidays
What we offer
- 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Cash Health Plan provided by Simply Health
- Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100's of retailers
- £780 CPD allowance pro-rata
- 10 hours paid CPD hours annually pro-rata
- Family-friendly policies including sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes
- UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
- Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
- Paid volunteering days
- Death in service of two times annual salary
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Animal Care Assistant
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Working Days: Monday - Thursday
The Forum School
The Forum School and Residential Home is a 52 week residential specialist school providing quality therapeutic care and education for young people with Autism, sever learning difficulties, challenging behaviour and complex needs. The children and young people that attend our school range between the ages of 7 and 19 years.
The Job
The Animal Care Assistant is responsible for helping to provide an efficient and accessible animal Therapy service to support the smooth running and effective management of the establishment. The role is all about supporting and empowering all of our young people to achieve their personal best through working alongside our horses, within the animal environment. Providing appropriate physical and emotional support to ensure effective learning takes place, whilst maintaining a clean and safe environment are key competencies we are looking for. To support our young people both in school and in their homes as required to ensure a consistent approach.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To contribute to making the animal care team effective. This involves supporting other members of the team and helping to build positive relationships. You must be willing to give and receive constructive feedback aimed at developing the quality of relationships and team performance.
- To work within the health and safety guidelines of the school.
- To support the Equine lead and Groom in order to maintain the health and wellbeing of the animals. This includes taking responsibility for the running of the yard when the equine lead is absent. As well as delivering student sessions.
- Liaise with the Equine Lead and Groom to ensure continuity of care for the animals during times of staff holiday or illness.
- General duties i.e. mucking out, feeding, grooming and animal first aid. To include caring for our small animals – guinea pigs and rabbits.
- Care and monitoring of tack and equipment including ensuring it is safe and fit to use as well as keeping it clean and tidy.
- General care of the animals with specific emphasis on helping our young people groom and complete stable management activities during the year.
- Support in the delivery of sessions by taking responsibility for working with groups or individuals in a range of situations with the guidance of the Equine lead.
- Assist with the preparation of resources for sessions. Help to plan individual programs for our young people, this includes group sessions, 1:1 sessions and staff sessions.
- Maintain students records as required, ensuring that confidentiality is maintained. Always ensuring that records are written to a legible, accurate, high standard at the end of the session.
The Cambian Group
The Cambian Group is one of the largest providers of specialist behavioural health services for children and adults in the UK. We are looking for an Education Administrator to join our team who aligns with our ethos of believing that every child or young person has a personal best. Our work in the UK embraces many specialist services including adult mental health, acquired brain injury, children’s specialist education, children’s residential services and fostering services.
Requirements for an Enhanced DBS and reference checking will be undertaken in line with government regulations and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible due to the nature of these important checks it may extend the processing time. All young people are equally entitled to have their needs met in a fair and balanced way. Cambian Group employees are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any young person or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation or any other perceived difference.
We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
Veterinary Care Assistant
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Apply by 29 September 2025
Department Veterinary Care Assistants
Fitzpatrick Referrals Halfway Lane, EashingGodalmingSurreyGU7 2QQGB
Fitzpatrick Referrals is looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our veterinary care assistant team.
Working as part of a team of 7 in total, including veterinary care assistants, nurses and a vet, the night team is responsible for providing excellent care of our inpatients overnight.
You must be a committed person who will be dedicated to the care and welfare of our patients. Your ability to work independently, use initiative and communicate well within a team is of great importance, as well as a hard-working nature and confidence handling small animals.
Previous employment or voluntary work experience with small animals is essential, and previous experience with night work and an animal management certificate or similar is preferred.
We have one full-time role working 7 nights on, 7 nights off, Monday to Sunday. Shifts are 11 hours (8:30pm-7:30am).
We offer a salary of £13.01 per hour, a company pension scheme, life assurance and an award-winning employee assistance programme.
Early applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to close for applications before the closing date.
Date posted: 12 September 2025
Teaching Assistant - Landbased and Animal Care
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Contract: Temporary - 12 Months Maternity Cover
Hours: 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.
Lufton College
Cambian Lufton College is a specialist residential education provider for 16 to 25 year olds with ASD, learning disabilities and complex behavioural and emotional needs. The college provides a 2-3 year pathway to prepare our students for adulthood, equipping them with the skills and qualities required to lead a fulfilled, independent and ambitious life.
Purpose and Summary of the Job
To support the delivery of the Landbased and Animal Care curriculums, by providing and leading enrichment sessions, in session support to engage and progress learning for students as a support for the Tutor/Teachers and 1-1 support to students throughout their educational day.
To provide additional support in the specified curriculum area, supporting the Tutors/Teachers with resources, session delivery and planning.
To provide practical support for the department, including assisting with animal care tasks such as feeding, preparing animal housing, performing health checks, and managing the physical environment and resources. This will involve weekend work, as part of a rota to cover animal care tasks during the weekend. This role is contracted permanently for 52 weeks.
Key Responsibilities
- To assist the Animal Care Technician with animal care tasks, and to support the ongoing maintenance of the animal care environment.
- To assistant with resources and maintenance of land-based areas as instructed.
- Show flexibility and differentiation when working across all ability levels, supporting all students to engage in learning opportunities.
- Ensure all students are working towards their agreed accreditations.
- Maintain effective partnerships with parent/carers to promote students’ learning and to provide information to parents about achievements and progress.
- Help produce quality displays around the college and ensure that they are updated regularly.
- Support students in a range of activities both on and off site.
- Provide support and care for the students throughout the educational day, as required and in line with support plans.
- Assisting with therapy programmes.
- Supervise and provide support for all students ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
The successful candidate would be required to work alternative weekends throughout the year as agreed with the Animal Care Technician and Tutor as part of your weekly working hours, with a reduced weekday timetable to provide necessary care to the animals, this would include tasks such as feeding, cleaning and medical support.
Requirements
No previous experience is necessary but a passion and commitment to gain the required skills, knowledge and experience is vital.
A qualification in Safeguarding and/or relevant qualifications e.g. Animal Husbandry are desirable as well as experience of working within a similar setting.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
If you want to learn from and work with a highly specialist, incredibly proud and integrated team that unlocks the potential of young people, then please talk to us.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
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BTEC Tech Awards Sept 22 - Animal Care - Moderator
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Animal Care
Art and Design
Child development
Construction
Creative Digital Media
Digital Information Technology
Health and Social Care
Enterprise
Music Practice
Performing Arts
Sport
Travel and Tourism
**Overview of the role**
Moderators are responsible for moderating centres' assessment of candidates' work in accordance with the agreed assessment criteria and the awarding organisation's procedures.
**Key Responsibilities:**
1. Attend standardisation meetings. Moderators will not be permitted to carry out moderation if they fail to attend the appropriate standardisation meeting/s. Moderators must not moderate any candidate work before the standardisation meetings.
2. Moderate centres' assessment of candidates' work in accordance with the agreed assessment criteria and our procedures.
3. Send any centre requests for special consideration to Pearson. Send any other JCQ documentation from centres to Pearson.
4. Maintain regular contact with their Team Leader as appropriate, raising issues as they arise.
5. Ensure all Moderator marks and E9 Moderator reports are submitted on the system by specified deadlines. All E9 moderator reports must be at the standard specified in the standardisation meeting.
6. Keep all records relating to their moderator role for one year after the examination series.
**Experience/ Qualifications needed:**
You will have one academic year's worth of teaching experience:
a. within the last 8 years
b. within the relevant subject
c. since qualifying as a teacher
You will have a degree or equivalent
You will be a qualified teacher
**About Pearson**
Welcome to Pearson, the world's leading learning company. We have a simple mission: to help people make more of their lives through learning. We are the UK's largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses.
We value the power of inclusive culture and embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Pearson promotes a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm. Through our talent, we believe that diversity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant company. People are at the centre of our company. We are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace ecosystem where talent can learn, grow, and thrive.
**Application Information**
We have a number of opportunities available for teaching professionals to join our growing teams of examiners, moderators and verifiers.
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BTEC Tech Awards Sept 22 - Animal Care - Examiner
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Examiner will mark candidates' responses in accordance with the pre-defined mark scheme, whilst adhering to conditions of recognition and examination procedures. Most subjects will be marked onscreen using ePEN or Learner Work Transfer, which can be done from home. A high level of subject knowledge is necessary in order to apply the mark scheme. Each examiner will receive an agreed allocation of scripts.
We are currently recruiting for BTEC Tech awards Examiners in the following areas:
Animal Care
Art and Design
Child development
Construction
Creative Digital Media
Digital Information Technology
Health and Social Care
Enterprise
Music Practice
Performing Arts
Sport
Travel and Tourism
**Responsibilities**
+ To mark accurately and consistently to ensure overall standards are maintained.
+ To submit samples to your Team Leader at designated times
+ To ensure milestones for marking are adhered to.
+ To ensure all administration is completed as specified.
**Experience/Qualifications needed**
+ You will hold a minimum of one year's full time teaching experience of the relevant subject.
+ You will have a degree or equivalent.
+ You will be a qualified teacher.
**Competencies required**
+ You will have the ability to work well under pressure.
+ You will have the ability to meet deadlines.
+ You will have a high level of subject knowledge in order to apply the mark scheme.
**About Pearson**
We value the power of inclusive culture and embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Pearson promotes a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm. Through our talent, we believe that diversity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant company. People are at the centre of our company. We are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace ecosystem where talent can learn, grow, and thrive. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are the UK's largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses.
**Application Information**
We have a number of opportunities available for teaching professionals to join our growing teams of examiners, moderators and verifiers.
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