Animal Care Assistant - Scottish SPCA, Balerno
Company: Scottish SPCA
Salary: £23,809.50 per annum (FTE)
Location: Balerno, Edinburgh
Date posted: 18 December 2025
Apply before: 31 December 2025
The Job:
We are currently looking for an Animal Care Assistant to join the team at the Edinburgh Animal Rescue and Re-homing Centre for a period of 6 months. This centre offers rehabilitation and re-homing to domestic animals.
Our Animal Care Assistants are there to provide a safe environment for all animals whilst in the care of the animal rescue and rehoming centre and to help animals find loving new homes.
Working with many different types of animals, no day will ever look the same.
The role requires feeding and grooming the animals as well as clearing out their accommodation and ensuring each animal gets the appropriate exercise and socialisation they need.
Many of the animals in our care also need routine health checks completed including administering relevant medicines, and this is the role of the Animal Care Assistant to provide this action when required.
- Location: Scotland, Edinburgh & The Lothians
- Industry: Animal Care
- Job type: Full-time, Fixed term
Animal Care Assistant - Scottish SPCA, Balerno
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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 185 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
- Good attention to detail
- Good IT skills
- A commitment to animal welfare
- Resilient and calm approach to the role
- Ability to act with professional integrity
- Flexible approach
- Able to work well within a team
- A willingness to work within group shift pattern.
The Package:
- 37.5 hours per week, 10 days in 14 to include weekend working on a rota basis
- 6 month fixed term contract.
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