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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title : Cat Intake & Foster Coordinator and Cattery Carer

Accountable to: Head of Cattery

Department: Operations

Location: London, NW

Context

Mayhew provides a range of animal welfare and veterinary services, in the UK and abroad. We offer expert
veterinary care, rescue and rehoming, programmes in the community and guidance and support to improve
the lives of dogs and cats in need.

We operate, in the main, from our historic building in north London but also have operations in Georgia and
Afghanistan. Our Cattery Carers are an integral part of our work to ensure dogs in need receive the care,
support and love they deserve.

Job purpose/summary

At Mayhew, cats in need come through the doors of our Home, a rescue and rehoming shelter in North West
London every day. We have up to 80 cats in our care at any one time and many more temporarily living in
foster homes. We are very proud of the vital work we do to make sure they have the care, support and love
they deserve, and our Animal Care staff are at the heart of this.

We offer a caring and supportive team, lots of variety and the opportunity to make a lasting difference to the
lives of cats who rely on us.

Main areas of responsibility

• Liaising with the veterinary team to ensure all cats on foster receive prompt veterinary care when

needed.

• Creating cat website profiles for cats on foster to best reflect their individual personalities and needs

and ensuring placed into new homes as soon as possible

• Ensuring assessments and feedback forms from foster carers are promptly provided, and the cats are

advertised for adoption as soon as possible.

Cat Intake Co-ordination

• Ensure owners and finders wishing to relinquish their cats, or wishing to bring in stray cats they have

found, are responded to in a timely manner

• Working closely with the Head of Cattery to arrange intakes depending on space availability and

ensuring we help cats who we are best placed to look after.

• Ensuring all associated paperwork is completed, maintaining accurate and detailed records.
• Helping with carrying out behaviour assessments
• Maintaining accurate records and providing monthly reports.

Cat Adoptions

• Assisting the Cat Adoption Officer with rehoming, including supporting interviews with potential

adopters.

• Assisting the Cat Adoption Officer with ensuring cats are advertised for adoption as soon as possible.
• Supporting the Working Cat Programme, ensuring cats needing non-traditional homes are admitted

only when we have suitable outlet homes lined up.



From time to time assisting on Cattery

• Helping to meet the specific needs of cats in our care by helping with their feeding, assessments,

cleaning, enrichment and grooming

• Helping with making sure the cattery and associated areas and equipment are clean and maintained
• Helping the team to reunite stray cats with their owners when needed
• Helping the team to monitor and record individual health, behavioural and enrichment care plans for

the cats on site.





General
In addition to the specific duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description, all Mayhew employees
should be aware of their specific responsibilities towards the following:

• Mayhew is committed to encouraging volunteering throughout the organisation and as such the post

holder will be expected to support and respect volunteers, and may be asked to work alongside or
supervise a volunteer as part of their role

• Adhere to all health and safety and fire regulations and to co-operate with the charity in maintaining

good standards of health and safety

• Adhere to all Mayhew policies and procedures at all times
• Actively promote and support the safeguarding of dogs and cats in need, observing and adhering to

relevant to the role

This job description is not exhaustive. It merely acts as a guide and may be amended to meet the changing
requirements of the charity at any time after discussion with the post holder.

PERSON SPECIFICATION – Cat Intake & Foste r Coordinator and Catte ry Carer

Criteria Essential Desirable

Knowledge, • Level 2 NVQ in Animal Care or equivalent • Cat behaviour qualification
educational & GCSEs
professional • Knowledge of cat behaviour
qualifications

Experience • Experience of working in an animal

• Experience of cat handling, either in a welfare organisation or shelter

boarding facility or shelter environment environment

• Experience of dealing with distressing

situations and/or distressed animals

• Previous experience working with

volunteers

Skills / • Able and willing to work co-operatively in a • Clean driving license
Abilities team

• Able to work alone with minimal supervision
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good time management and ability to juggle

(especially Outlook, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint)

• Willingness to learn

Where appropriate, reasonable adjustments to these criteria will be considered to accommodate
personal circumstances such as disabilities