Assistant Stylist / Dog Groomer

Pets at Home; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet care company in Huddersfield is seeking an Assistant Stylist to join their Grooming Team. The role requires a passion for pets and delivering exceptional service while maintaining high grooming standards. Ideal candidates will have some experience in a pet care environment, and the company offers comprehensive training and growth opportunities, along with competitive pay and attractive benefits. Flexible working hours are required, and the role involves working in a customer-facing environment.

Benefits

Attractive rates of pay

28 days paid annual leave

Extra day off for birthday

Life Assurance

Company pension contribution

20% colleague discount

Qualifications

• Experience in a professional dog grooming or pet care environment is desirable.
• Ideally has experience in a customer-facing role.
• Willingness to work flexible shift patterns.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-standard pet care in grooming salons.
• Demonstrate an understanding of grooming techniques.
• Provide customer service that reflects company goals.

Skills

Passion for pets

Customer service experience

Flexible availability

Basic grooming handling techniques

Job description

Join Our Grooming Team: Assistant Stylist Wanted!

At Pets at Home, we’re passionate about pets and it shows. Our Pet Care Centres across the UK include grooming salons, retail stores, and veterinary practices, all dedicated to delivering the very best care and exceptional care for pets and the people who love them.

We believe in creating welcoming, supportive environments where team members can thrive. If you share our love for pets and our commitment to excellence, we’d love to meet you.

The Role:

Our Assistant Stylists are critical to the success of our Pets Grooming salons. You'll deliver the very highest standard of pet care, whilst demonstrating a basic understanding of technical concepts relating to preparing and clipping of a dog for grooming, including handling techniques, using equipment, and pre-grooming preparation.

We will give you the training, skills, and knowledge to provide our customers with service that reflects our goals of being the 'Best Pet Care Business in the World'. You'll enjoy a competitive base pay and we’ll support your growth with comprehensive training and development opportunities, including our Earn as You Learn programmes and additional skill-based pay enhancements.

We’re seeking individuals who are:

• People who are passionate about delivering a great service.
• Flexible. Due to the nature of working within a busy retail environment, we need you to have the ability to work a flexible shift pattern across the week! You will receive a minimum contract, but you will often be required to work more hours to cover busy periods, absences, and holidays.
• Experience of working with, or handling dogs in a professional dog grooming or pet care environment is desirable, but not always essential (please note that bathing and prepping your own dog does not qualify as professional experience). Ideally has experience of working within a customer-facing environment.
• Preferably you will have worked in a target driven environment, but if not, happy to work in one.

Why Join Us?

We reward and recognize our colleagues in ways that matter to them. Our benefits reflect our support of your mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing, both now and in the future. Here are some of our benefits which may be available to you:

• Attractive rates of pay plus, subject to targets
• 28** days paid annual leave, which will rise to 33** days after 2 years (this includes 8 bank holidays and will be pro-rata calculated on your contracted hours)
• Extra day off for your birthday
• Life Assurance - 4 times your annual salary
• Company pension contribution of 4%
• Colleague discount of 20% across the Group (Pets at Home, Pets Grooming, Vets for Pets), including 30% off on own brand

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

Together, we’re better with pets.