Pet Welfare Assistant (Off site) bei Blue Cross

Interview date: w/c 29th September

We’re recruiting a Pet Welfare Assistant for offsite animal care, for our Rehoming & Fostering team in Sheffield!

 

At Blue Cross, we're dedicated to providing the best care possible to pets in need. As a Pet Welfare Assistant for our offsite services, you'll play an important role in our mission, ensuring that every pet receives the love, attention, and support they deserve whilst they are in our offsite care. You will also be a key part of finding new homes for our pets. 

As a Pet Welfare Assistant - Offsite Services, you will be responsible for expertly managing pets within the offsite pet care services. These could be manging the care or rehoming pets in foster or Home Direct services. 

 

You will be ensuring welfare standards are met and that rehabilitation plans are followed and supported for pets in foster homes.  As we want to help as many pets as possible, this role will be responsible for ensuring the assessment of pets preparing for a new home in offsite services is completed in the quickest amount of time. 

 

For many, the centre will be the ‘public face’ of Blue Cross so you will need to ensure that good customer service is at the heart of every interaction.  At Blue Cross we are ambitious, and the work carried out by our centres is key in achieving our strategy and ensuring that ultimately, we help more pets and people. 

 

This role is full time role working 37.5 hours per week on a rota which will include weekends and public holidays. 

 

If you excel in an environment where you can see the difference you make every day, then this is the role for you. Interested? Then apply and let’s work together to see if this is the role for you.

The person will be empathetic, intuitive, and focused on animal welfare, with experience in a similar environment. You can assess pet needs, recognise behavioural signs, and have a basic understanding of medications like flea treatments and diabetes management. Self-motivated and collaborative, you bring practical, creative solutions for the best care outcomes.

 

Your communication skills are first-class, making you approachable and effective in sharing critical information with fosterers, clients, and stakeholders. You're resilient and emotionally intelligent, able to thrive in emotionally charged situations while supporting both clients and colleagues with empathy.

 

 

Although not essential, it would be great if you also had:

 

 

Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date on Wednesday 24th September 2025. 

 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.  

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.  

 

In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.  

 

Our generous benefits package includes: 

 

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.