Role Title: HFH Volunteer Assistant

Location: Ballymena Rehoming CentreMain contact: Gillian McCurry

Suggested Time Commitment: One day per week

Purpose of the role: To support the Home from Home Coordinator by assisting with a wide range of administrative tasks to support the smooth running of our Home from Home (Fostering) scheme.

Key responsibilities:Administrative tasks that may include; email, telephone, scanning, typing, filing and data entry, plus writing thank you cards and letters for fosterers whose dogs have been adopted (Dependant on the needs of the centre).Transport dogs between foster homes and the centre.Take out food, medication or other equipment needed to foster homes.Relay information related to the dogs and fosterers back to the Home from Home Coordinator. Create foster dog profiles to display in the rehoming centre, to help the foster dogs find their forever homes and to promote the scheme.Be knowledgeable on the work of Dogs Trust and specifically your Rehoming Centre.

Required skills & Competencies:A full UK driving license.Excellent face to face communication skills with the ability to listen. Good IT skills.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 lone working.

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 Gillian.McCurry@dogstrust.org.uk or 02825661009 for further details about this role and our current availability.

A final word from our CEO

At 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.