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Pet Welfare Assistant - Off-site Services
Blue Cross —Exeter
- £24,976 a year
- Weekend availability
- Customer service
- Organisational skills
- Cash handling
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Animal Nursing Assistant
Exeter Vetcare Ltd —Exeter
- £12.87 an hour
- Part-time
- Medication administration
- Patient monitoring
- Patient care
- Free parking
- Store discount
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Wildlife Ranger
Forestry Commission —Exeter
- £34,793 a year
- Full-time
- Presentation skills
- Travel
- Computer skills
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Veterinary Receptionist
IVC —Exeter
- Up to £23,132.20 a year
- Part-time
- Front desk
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Stylist - Dog Groomer
Pets Grooming —Paignton
- £13.10 an hour
- Full-time
- Employee discount
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Veterinary Receptionist and Administrator
Selworthy Vets —Kingsbridge
- From £12.71 an hour
- Full-time
- Laboratory experience
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- Health & wellbeing programme
- Employee discount
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Pet Welfare Assistant - Off-site Services

Blue Cross
Exeter

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£24,976 a year
12 days ago

Benefits

Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount

Qualifications

Driving Licence
Customer service
Organisational skills
Animal welfare
Customer interaction
Cash handling
Communication skills

Full job description

Description

Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £24,976 per annum

Location: Exeter, EX2 8ED

Closing date: Tuesday 25th August 2026

We’re recruiting a Pet Welfare Assistant for off-site animal care, for our Rehoming & Fostering team in Devon!

At Blue Cross, we're dedicated to providing the best care possible to pets in need. As a Pet Welfare Assistant for our off-site 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.

More about the role

As a Pet Welfare Assistant - Off-site Services, you will be responsible for expertly managing a specific number of pet cases within the offsite pet care service, these can be rehoming pets in foster or Home Direct service.

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.

About 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.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

Experience of having previously worked or volunteered with domestic animals or in an animal welfare environment.
Good experience of recording information and being able to accurately convey this when communicating with others
Previous experience in working in a customer focused environment and used to achieving a high level of customer satisfaction.
Good organisational and administration skills to include computer systems.
A full driving licence.
The ability to demonstrate, understand and apply our Blue Cross values.

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

Qualification or similar experience in animal behaviour or animal training.
Experience of cash handling.
Experience of working to strict health and safety procedures.
Understanding of safeguarding issues.

How to apply

Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date on Tuesday 25th August 2026.

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

Blue Cross benefits

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:

Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
Health cash plan
Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
Life assurance
20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
Enhanced family friendly policies
Recognition scheme
Annual volunteer days
Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers

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

About Blue Cross

If you’d like to learn more about Blue Cross, our mission, and the work we do to support animals and people, take a look at our About Us page

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