Jobs in West sussex, united kingdom

Puppy Raiser

In this role, you will be providing a puppy with a vital foundation for its future role as a guide dog. This is a full-time volunteering opportunity as a puppy will live with you in your home for around 12-16 months.

It’s so rewarding to know that the dog will go on to help people with sight loss gain independence and freedom.” – Chris, Puppy Raiser

What you’ll be doing

We rely on volunteers like you to help us improve the lives of people with sight loss. In this role your support will include :

• Following Guide Dogs Puppy Raising for Excellent Partnerships (PREP) programme, to raise and prepare a puppy to become a guide dog.
• Using our guidelines to care for your puppy , providing sufficient exercise.
• Familiarising a puppy to a wide range of environments.
• Teaching a puppy to be alone by gradually building up from a few minutes to a maximum of 4 hours.
• Attending regular puppy classes.
• Meeting regularly with Guide Dogs representatives to discuss your pup’s development.
• Completing regular on-line questionnaires to help us monitor puppy progress.

You’ll have

Ideally you will :

You’ll get

Volunteering is a two-way street, so in return for your time you will get;

Training and support

This role has 13 hours of training and then you’ll be ready to go! These modules include :

If you have questions about the training requirements, we can answer

these at your interview along with any other support or accessibility

needs you may have.

Volunteering for Guide Dogs should never leave you out of pocket.

We’ll make sure we pay any expenses related to your volunteering with

us in line with our policy.

What we need from you

Criminal Disclosure check necessary? No

We are working hard to make sure anyone who wants to can volunteer for Guide Dogs, but at the moment we have a minimum age of 18 for this role.

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