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Kennel Manager National Dog Team
Salary not available. View on company website.
Border Force, Felixstowe, Suffolk
- Onsite working
- Full time
- Permanent
Posted today, 1 Feb
Job ref: 0b2f504401fb41868ab23abc863bf182
Full Job Description
Border Force is a law enforcement arm of the Home Office. We are responsible for managing UK border controls by implementing immigration and customs regulations and working with the wider Home Office on counter terrorism and tackling organised crime, modern slavery, and trafficking. Learn more on our careers pages. The National Dog Team is a small team within National Operational Headquarters with a hugely important mission; to transform our canine detection capability and performance, and to ensure that we have the right policies, processes and procedures in place to support the operational business to drive up performance and ensure our dogs are trained on Control Strategy Priorities. We are looking for a professional and dedicated individual to join this specialist team, who play a vital role in our efforts to combat and deter smugglers and those seeking to evade border controls. The Kennel Manager will oversee daily operations and manage Animal Care and Welfare Technicians at Felixstowe kennel site and the new Border Force Detector Dog Training School in Tilbury. In this varied role, which includes both physical interactions with the animals alongside administrative tasks, you will ensure that the health, fitness and welfare of Detector Dogs is maintained in accordance with organisational polices, guidance and animal welfare legislation and provide administrative support to the Dog Unit Manager and Senior Officer. It is essential that you have a natural affinity with animals, a high level of physical fitness and a commitment to high standards of care and welfare management for all dogs within the program. This role requires the ability to lift and carry the dogs, providing exercise and high intensity interval training when needed. This job also involves an element of lone working both on and off site. Key Responsibilities: Animal Care and Welfare
- Manage a team of Animal Care and Welfare Technicians (ACWT) at both locations who are responsible for the day-to-day care of Detector Dogs to ensure that operational priorities and welfare standards are met. This will include producing roster and deployment plans for both sites, prioritising and reallocating resource as needed.
- Oversee kennel activities at each site ensuring that the performance, health, fitness, and welfare of Detector Dogs is maintained in accordance with organisational policies/guidance. This includes care, feeding and exercise to national standards and delivering kennel enrichment and stimulation tailored to the individual needs of the dog within your care. When required you will undertake these duties yourself.
- Utilising training received to deal with dog fights and dog aggression, reporting and recording of these incidents in line with Border Force Policy Administrative Tasks
- Undertake regular kennel assurance reviews, ensuring the working kennel environment is maintained to required national standards of hygiene.
- Provide support to line manager and countersigning manager with national and regional tasking of K9 resources.
- Deliver the Kennel Training Package to all new staff.
- Writing and updating Business Continuity Plans, Risk Assessments, Safe Systems of Work, Fire Safety and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) in line with policy and guidance.
- Financial/procurement responsibilities including liaising with external contractors to ensure all maintenance works are completed in a timely manner. Working Pattern: Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. You will work shifts which are usually between eight or ten-hours in duration and will need to be flexible and adaptable to meet unexpected demands. This may mean rescheduling days off and changing attendance times at short notice to meet operational demands. You may also need to be on-call, for which an allowance will be paid. Training: You will receive full training and support to do the job. Training takes place initially in the classroom and then continues on the job with a mentor who supports you until you are fully confident in the role. Even then you are never alone; you work as part of a team where there is always someone around for advice and support. Further information on what the training involves can be found on our website.
Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.
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