Weekend Animal Rescue Officer
Company: SSPCA
Salary: £4,761.90 per annum
Location: Inverness
Date posted: 10 June 2025
Apply before: Unspecified
The Job:
Our Animal Rescue Officers are there to provide a responsive, caring and compassionate service when responding to rescue calls as directed by the Animal Helpline team.
Responding to a wide range of emergency calls such as sick or injured birds and small mammals to abandoned seal pups, the Animal Rescue Officers are often the first face to face point of contact for the public to asses situations and take the appropriate humane action for the animal.
Where it is deemed appropriate, the Animal Rescue Officer is also responsible for the transport of animals to our wildlife facilities for further treatment.
Working with many different types of animals, no day will ever look the same.
The Scottish SPCA aim to rehabilitate and release as many animals as possible back into the wild.
- Location: Scotland, Scottish Highlands
- Industry: Animal Care, Environment, Conservation and Sustainability
- Job type: Part-time, Permanent
Weekend Animal Rescue Officer
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The Company:
As Scotland’s animal welfare charity, we have been on-hand to protect animals and prevent cruelty since 1839 – that’s over 184 years of creating a better world for all animals. We’ve grown to become a national charity which celebrates the strength of the human-animal bond and enriches the lives of animals and people. We are Scotland’s animal champions.
The Candidate:
- Practical experience working with animals
- Experience working with the general public
- Previous experience in a customer focussed environment
- Excellent customer care and communication skills
- Ability to plan and organise own work
- Good administration skills
- Good attention to detail
- A commitment to animal welfare
- Resilient and calm in face of difficult situations
- Act with professional integrity
- Flexible approach to work
- Full UK manual driving licence
- Willingness to work within group shift pattern
- Willingness to live within the geographical area of work
- Completion of a Disclosure Scotland standard check.
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