Benchmark have been selected as the preferred supplier to assist Guide Dogs for the Blind in the recruitment and selection process for Apprentice Guide Dog Mobility Instructors for the Northern Region. If you are interested in applying for this position, please follow the links below.
Location: Various - please see notes below
Salary: *please see guidance notes
Type of contract: Permanent
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Wednesday 2 April 2008
Reference: JF
Interview date: between 12 May 2008 and 6 June 2008
How to apply: Please read the attached cover letter and guidance notes then send your completed application form (also attached) to the team of your choice. Please do not send your application via email.
Guide Dogs are looking for 16 apprentices. This is a three year apprenticeship training to become a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor. This job is to achieve Guide Dogs primary objectives by training guide dogs and visually impaired clients by providing pre and post training support. Guide Dogs would particularly welcome applications from male candidates and candidates from ethnic minority groups as these are currently under-represented in the workplace.
*Starting salary in year one is £16,907 plus £2,250 location allowance for district teams in
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The following offices are currently recruiting
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Apprentice Applications (Guide Dogs), Benchmark Recruit, Omnia |
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Apprentice Applications (Guide Dogs), Benchmark Recruit, Omnia One, 125 Queen Street, |
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Apprentice Applications (Guide Dogs), Benchmark Recruit, Omnia |
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About The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association…
Vision
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association wants a world in which all people who are blind and partially-sighted enjoy the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as everyone else.
Their mission is to provide guide dogs, mobility and other rehabilitation services that meet the needs of blind and partially-sighted people.
Once someone has lost their sight, a guide dog can give back a degree of freedom that often feels little short of miraculous. Most guide dog owners will tell you that when it comes to mobility aids, these highly-trained and sensitive animals are second to none. They have been expertly breeding and training guide dogs now for over seventy years and have provided thousands of dogs to blind and partially-sighted people of all ages and from all walks of life. When sight loss threatens to take away a person’s freedom of movement, Guide Dogs is there to help.
Eye Health
They also know that there’s an enormous amount that can be done to help prevent sight loss occurring in the first place. Sophisticated medical research is being undertaken into many different causes of blindness, much of the UK-based work commissioned and funded by Guide Dogs. Our findings could eventually lead to new treatments for common eye diseases in both adults and children. But eye health is not just the business of scientists. Part of their mission is to get across simple messages about eye health to the public, particularly to children and young people. We can all be responsible for taking care of our sight and Guide Dogs’ programme of eye health education is giving people the information they need to help prevent future sight loss.
For more information and further details please visit www.guidedogs.org.uk.
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