Current Vacancies

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Please check this page regularly as all vacancies are added here. Read about help you can offer local to you at a Puppy Training Satellite or Support Groups. For advise on becoming a Dog Trainer read here.

Volunteer supporters needed nationwide - be part of our growing family!

You too can help provide our highly skilled Assistance Dogs for people with disabilities by offering help local to you at a Puppy Training Satellite or Support Group. We can put you in touch with Canine Partners staff and volunteers in your area, just contact us to see how you can help. For further information on opportunities to help please click here to find out more, for example:

West Sussex Head Office, Scotland & Essex Fundraising need volunteers to help for various events and administration tasks.

Volunteers urgently needed!

Urgently needed at National Training Centre, West Sussex:

Adopt a Puppy admin volunteer
We are looking for a volunteer to help us with the ongoing administration of our Adopt a Puppy scheme. This includes helping us with the general organisation of the scheme (for example filing, creating labels and photocopying forms) alongside helping us to send out the regular update mailings to all of our supporters and sending out adoption packs to new supporters when they sign up. We would be very grateful to be joined by a volunteer who can help us for two half days a week (mornings or afternoons).

Charity database admin volunteer
We urgently need a volunteer to help us with the ongoing maintenance of our Charity database, ideally for two days a week. Initially, we would like help with a project to streamline our database by amending existing records, and in the long term we would be delighted to have someone to help us to check, collate and input data on a regular basis.

For further details, please contact Jane Jackson on 01730 716002 or email janej@caninepartners.org.uk.

Trust & Legacy Administrator – part time (3 days per week) at the Heyshott Training Centre.

To provide administrative support to the Trusts & Legacies Officer in all work to raise funds from Trusts, Foundations and Livery Companies in line with the Charity’s fundraising strategy.

For job description and application form, please contact Jane Jackson on 01730 716002 or email janej@caninepartners.org.uk

Occupational Therapists - Devon, Hull and Birmingham ( Part time / Occasional Only)

A unique opportunity to help support our growing number of canine partnerships nationwide.

Salary and expenses discussed on application

Canine Partners are placing more assistance dog partnerships nationwide and need to build a network of Occupational Therapists to help with home visits to those people with a disability who are applying for a canine partner.

Qualifications required: Dip. COT or BA/BSc OT
Experience of undertaking functional assessments and working with clients and carers in their own homes is essential, with Care Planning, inter-agency and multi-disciplinary work desirable.

You should understand the vital work of assistance dogs in the home environment and have a working knowledge of how physical limitations impact on the lifestyles of people with disabilities.

If you are a self-motivated Occupational Therapist who is flexible and reliable, with the ability to travel within an agreed area; please contact us. Extra training with our clients and dogs is available at the National Training Centre in West Sussex. The Partnership & Aftercare Office would like to hear from individuals who want to make a real difference.

Click here to request further details.

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Canine Partners is an equal opportunity employer.

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