Assistance Dog Instructor Maternity Cover

JOB TITLE: Centre Based Assistance Dog Instructor (Maternity Cover) LOCATION: Based at our Centre in Milton Keynes, with travel up to 3 hours SALARY BAND: £26K - £32K per annum, depending on experience. Line management experience desirable. JOB TYPE: Full time and Part time applicants considered. Fixed Term of 12-18 months REPORTS TO: Interim Head of Assistance Dog Programme Medical Detection Dogs trains dogs to save lives. We train specialist dogs to detect the odour of human disease, providing life-saving alert assistance dogs to people with complex health problems across the UK and collaborating with NHS Trusts and other researchers and Universities both in the UK and internationally to advance the early diagnosis of disease. We have an exciting new opportunity to join this small but fast-growing charity that is a world leader in its specialist innovative field. The Role We are looking for a passionate and driven person who has previous proven experience and skills working as an Instructor within an Assistance Dog organisation, who has worked with clients and partnerships. The role includes supporting both clients who have had a MDD dog placed with them and also our own dog applicants with their puppies and young dogs to ensure they receive the highest standard of socialisation and early training in terms of obedience, public access and developing an alert to the applicant s condition, with the aim to reach an accreditable assistance dog partnership status. The ..... full job details .....