Dog Grooming Head Stylist in Edinburgh

Dog Groomer Head Stylist – Harlow - 39 hours
Salary: £26,000 - £30,000
Contracted hours: 39 hours per week  
Who are we? 
We’re Pets at Home – if you’re someone who loves pets, you might know already know about our Pet Care Centres, which includes Pets Grooming salons, and Vets for Pets practices around the UK.
What’s the role? 
Our Head Stylists are critical to the success of our Pets Grooming salons. You will be responsible for all aspects of pet grooming and required to confidently deliver a full and thorough groom of a high standard. You will exceed our customers' expectations by providing a great service within the salon. Your excellent communication skills will be fully utilised as you deal with customers and their pets daily.
Who are we looking for?
As Head Stylist, you will lead from the front with a hands-on approach setting the standard of high-quality grooms confidently within the salon, you will inspire your team, inject fun into the workplace and create a truly amazing place to work and world class experience for our customer. It's fast-paced, innovative, fun, and we put people at the very heart of everything we do.
You will be responsible for the standard and delivery of grooming, responding to requests for advanced grooming, upskilling, and motivating your Salon team, whilst building a rapport with our customers, offering a great experience and driving the commercials forward within salon. You will understand the importance of creating the right environment for a good dog grooming experience and drive your team to support with compliance, standards, following procedures and prioritising both colleague and pet welfare.
You will work collaboratively with your line Manager to effectively manage the salon diary to maximise the number of appointments and align bookings to the correct skillset. You will be responsible for accessing the skillset and capability of internal and external candidates within work trials during the recruitment process.  Your excellent communication skills will be fully utilised as you deal with customers and their pets daily. You will Partner with the broader pet care ecosystem in their pet care centre, building relationships to help support a talent map and succession plan, developing a talent pool for the salon. We will give you the training, skills, and knowledge to enable you to provide our customers with service that reflects our goals of being the ‘Best Pet Care platform’.
Our culture is friendly and inclusive. Each one of our teams is unique because we welcome everyone, and everyone can be themselves. If you share our belief that together 'we're better with pets', we'd like to hear from you, whatever your background or circumstances. 
Your Benefits 
We reward and recognise our Head Stylists in ways that matter to them.  Our benefits reflect our support of your mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing, both now and in the future. Here are some of our benefits which may be available to you: 
•    Annual bonus 
•    at least 28* days paid annual leave, which will rise to 33* days after 2 years (*this includes 8 bank holidays and will be pro-rata calculated on your contracted hours.
•    Extra day off for your birthday
•    Life Assurance - 4 times your annual salary
•    Company pension contribution of 4% 
•    Colleague discount of 20% across the Group (Pets at Home, Pets Grooming, Vets for Pets), including 30% off on own brand
Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date due to the large volume of applications that we may receive. It’s important that our team can manage application levels whilst offering a positive candidate experience. Thank you. 

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