We have a fantastic opportunity for a Patient Care Assistant to join our team here at The Cat Hotel (The Village Group)! 

This is a permanent part time role working a 28 hours per week. You will be working at our Cat Hotel, based at our Caterham site.

We are looking to find our next super star to join our hard working but fun loving team where our clients and their pets are at the heartbeat of everything we do. A passion for animals, client care and a fabulous personality is the most important thing to us because you will be the face of The Village Group where our clients become family and their pets are VIPs. We are looking for someone warm and open who can stay calm and professional in challenging situations, someone who naturally goes the extra mile and someone who doesn't mind getting stuck in with any task.

If your idea of happiness is being covered in pet hair by the end of the day, from making a fuss of all our clients pets … we would love to hear from you. This is a hands on role especially at branch practices so you will need to be confident in handling animals. We are a sociable team who laugh together, socialise together, bake for each other (we love cake), look after each other, do sponsored activities together and more so we are looking for someone to join our amazing team and not just fill a role. We encourage career development and support our team to reach their goals whether this is personal or career.

This role will involve animal handling, assisting vets and nurses in restraining animals for treatment, cleaning, walking and feeding patients, general cleaning and maintenance duties, answering phone calls, reception cover, greeting clients and providing the highest standards of animal and customer care.

We are looking for someone who really cares about animals. Our ideal candidate will have had some experience with animals before, have excellent interpersonal skills and be a real team player.

In return, you will receive:

• Salary in line with National Minimum Wage 
• 6 weeks leave a year (5 weeks plus bank holidays/equivalent) rising to 7.6 weeks leave a year after first 5 years of service (1 extra day per annum based on service)
• Industry leading enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave pay offering 10 weeks full and 10 weeks half pay!
• Pension
• Staff discount scheme on Veterinary bills and products
• Access to Perk Box offering Entertainment, Travel and Retail discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to First Aid for Mental Health and Wellbeing Champions across CVS and 300 trained CVS colleagues in this role.
• Access to a range of flexible benefits to suit your needs – such as subsidised gym membership, and cycle to work scheme

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Please do not delay in submitting your application for this role. With some roles that are urgent or receiving high volume of applicants, we may interview and conclude the process prior to the closing date of the advertisement.