Assistant Stylist - Dog Groomer

Overview

As an Assistant Stylist, you'll play a vital role in our busy grooming salon, delivering excellent pet care while supporting grooming appointments. You'll develop hands-on skills in dog handling, bathing, prepping, and equipment use. You're passionate about great service, flexible to work across the week, and happy in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment. Experience with dogs or in pet care is desirable but not essential, and you're comfortable working towards targets.

At Pets at Home, pets are at the heart of everything we do. Our Pet Care Centres combine grooming, retail, and veterinary services to deliver exceptional care for pets and the people who love them. We’re proud to offer a welcoming, supportive environment where our teams can thrive.

Responsibilities: support grooming appointments, provide hands-on dog handling, bathing, and equipment use; ensure high standards of pet care and customer service.

Qualifications:

experience with dogs or in pet care is desirable but not essential; ability to work toward targets; flexible across the week; comfortable in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.

• Competitive pay plus commission
• 28 days holiday, rising to 33 after 2 years
• Extra day off for your birthday
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• 4% company pension contribution
• 20% colleague discount (30% off own brand)

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities.

Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!