- Liaising with the veterinary team to ensure all cats on foster receive prompt veterinary care when
needed.
- Creating cat website profiles for cats on foster to best reflect their individual personalities and needs
and ensuring placed into new homes as soon as possible
- Ensuring assessments and feedback forms from foster carers are promptly provided, and the cats are
advertised for adoption as soon as possible.
Cat Intake Co-ordination
- Ensure owners and finders wishing to relinquish their cats, or wishing to bring in stray cats they have
found, are responded to in a timely manner
- Working closely with the Head of Cattery to arrange intakes depending on space availability and
ensuring we help cats who we are best placed to look after.
- Ensuring all associated paperwork is completed, maintaining accurate and detailed records.
- Helping with carrying out behaviour assessments
- Maintaining accurate records and providing monthly reports.
Cat Adoptions
- Assisting the Cat Adoption Officer with rehoming, including supporting interviews with potential
adopters.
- Assisting the Cat Adoption Officer with ensuring cats are advertised for adoption as soon as possible.
- Supporting the Working Cat Programme, ensuring cats needing non-traditional homes are admitted
only when we have suitable outlet homes lined up.
From time to time assisting on Cattery
- Helping to meet the specific needs of cats in our care by helping with their feeding, assessments,
cleaning, enrichment and grooming
- Helping with making sure the cattery and associated areas and equipment are clean and maintained
- Helping the team to reunite stray cats with their owners when needed
- Helping the team to monitor and record individual health, behavioural and enrichment care plans for
the cats on site.
General
In addition to the specific duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description, all Mayhew employees
should be aware of their specific responsibilities towards the following:
- Mayhew is committed to encouraging volunteering throughout the organisation and as such the post
holder will be expected to support and respect volunteers, and may be asked to work alongside or
supervise a volunteer as part of their role
- Adhere to all health and safety and fire regulations and to co-operate with the charity in maintaining
good standards of health and safety
- Adhere to all Mayhew policies and procedures at all times
- Actively promote and support the safeguarding of dogs and cats in need, observing and adhering to
values and policies on animal welfare
- Uphold ethical and professional standards and not behave in a manner that is likely to bring the
charity into disrepute
- Promote and sustain a responsible attitude towards equal opportunities and diversity
- Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing registration requirements or any national professional or
occupational standards associated with the role
- Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing learning and development and to participate in any training
relevant to the role
This job description is not exhaustive. It merely acts as a guide and may be amended to meet the changing
requirements of the charity at any time after discussion with the post holder.
