Role Title: Volunteer Laundry Assistant

Location: Salisbury RC

Main contact: Justin Heath (Volunteer Coordinator)

Suggested time Commitment: 1 x shift per week (flexible hours)

Purpose of the role: To ensure our dogs have clean and fresh blankets / bedding available by supporting our Canine Carers in carrying out tasks associated with our on-site laundry.

Key responsibilities:Using the centre washing and drying machines to ensure a clean supply of bedding and blankets for our dogs at all times. To ensure that the laundry room is clean, tidy and free of clutter at all times.Operation of the laundry equipment in accordance with Dogs Trust guidelines including the clearing out of lint to prevent build up in drying machines.When quiet, to assist the Canine Carers with making up of feeds and cleaning of the kennel kitchen. To follow Dogs Trust guidance when using liquids and disinfectants in accordance with our Health & Safety policies.To report any machinery faults to your supervisor. Be an ambassador for Dogs Trust.Be knowledgeable on the work of Dogs Trust and specifically your Rehoming Centre.

Required skills & Competencies:Excellent face to face communication skills with the ability to listen. Confident and approachable manner.Common sense approach to problem solving and a diplomatic approach.Ability to work comfortably in a close-knit team and alone, as this role may involve working on your own.

Conscientious with a can-do attitude.Ability to follow instructions.An interest in dogs and dog welfare.For this role volunteers must be at least 18 years old.

What this role will offer you:We will provide you with a main contact who will manage your tasks, answer your questions and help you with the volunteer rota. Induction and ongoing role-specific training, guidance and support as well as an opportunity to develop your current skills, and to gain new ones. We will provide a Dogs trust volunteer uniform, alongside recognition of the role that you are carrying out in support of Dogs Trust through our Volunteer Merits Scheme.

Please contact Justin at volunteer.salisbury@dogstrust.org.uk or 01980 629101) for further details about this role and our current availability.

A final word from our CEOAt Dogs Trust, we are dedicated to providing the best care for all of our dogs and we couldn’t hope to achieve as much as we do without the hard work and commitment of our amazing volunteers. I hope that everyone who volunteers for us agrees that being part of Dogs Trust is a hugely rewarding experience.

Owen Sharp, Chief Executive

Dogs Trust is the UK’s largest dog welfare charity. Through our network of 20 rehoming centres across the UK and one in Ireland we care for almost 17,000 abandoned and unwanted dogs a year. No healthy dog is ever destroyed.