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Practical job helper - Orkney

  • VO90317

Description

We need a practical helper for jobs including:

  • General maintenance around the animal shelter including the house, kennels, and grounds
  • Painting and work on tunnel and landscaping garden
  • General grounds management including weeding tidying bushes and borders
  • Minor work involved in maintenance and upgrades of buildings fences etc
  • Assistance with managing drainage.

Organisation aims and objectives

We are a small rescue, taking disadvantaged dogs from Orkney and the Isles as well as Mainland Scotland and the UK. We want to give our dogs both who those who will go to be re-homed after assessment as well as the sanctuary dogs the very best we can. But we need some help with background work. And would very much value the input of our volunteers

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Depending on volunteer.

Restrictions

Volunteer must be able to work unsupervised performing some tasks and this will be covered at the on-site induction.
Experience required: Experience in gardening, plumbing, painting and general DIY maintenance.
Travel details: The centre is a 10 minute walk from the X1 bus route.

Support

Training details: Before you start we will have a chat about what the role involves. When you begin volunteering we provide an on site Induction which will include Health and Safety.

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