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Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
top 3
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Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
At Battersea we offer our love and expert care to dogs and cats who need us by rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming animals at our centres, and by sharing our knowledge and resources with rescue organisations around the world. We do this because we want to help every dog and cat, everywhere.
2 days/week at home
9-day fortnight
Core hours 10–4
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What's great about Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Mission and vision
Animal-focused
Not-for-profit
Culture
Collaborative
Progressive
Supportive
Our company environment
Gender diverse
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home demonstrates their gender diversity, equity and inclusion through having a leadership team, founder team and/or overall workforce which represents the gender split of the population.
LGBTQ+ representation
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home demonstrates their LGBTQ+ representation, equity and inclusion through having a leadership team, founder team and/or an overall workforce which represents the LGBTQ+ distribution in the population. They also have a LGBTQ+ working group.
Ethnically diverse
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home demonstrates their ethnic diversity, equity and inclusion through having a leadership team, a founder team and/or an overall workforce that represents the ethnic distribution of the population. They also have an ethnic diversity working group.
Disability representation
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home demonstrates their disability representation, equity and inclusion through having a leadership team, a founder team and/or an overall workforce that represents the disability distribution of the population. They also have a disability working group.
Salary Transparency
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home are transparent with their salaries on job descriptions
Regularly benchmarked/readjusted salary
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home regularly benchmark and readjust their salaries against the market so you know you’re always getting a fair wage
Family friendly
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home offer a range of benefits that support parents and families
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home jobs
Employee reviews
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home's employees have anonymously had their say in what they think of the company
Cannot fault anything. Working here is wonderful. Managers are great.
Battersea is really welcoming, inclusive and caring. The culture is warm and helpful and people work well across departments. I feel I have autonomy to manage my time, flexing childcare pick ups around meetings and being able to adjust my start and finish times when needed. Battersea is passionate about diversity and inclusion, with senior leadership supporting and promoting inclusive behaviours.
Battersea really makes an effort to gather feedback from staff and take actions from it. For instance, in one of the staff surveys there was a theme that people wanted to know more about decisions being made by the senior leadership team and CEO, so the CEO now does a fortnightly blog and the Directors rotate doing a blog on their main regular meetings. I also feel very safe and supported as a person in the LGBTQ+ community.
I love lots of things like being able to bring my dog into the office, the ability to help socialise cats in my lunch break, get a subsidised hot meal for lunch, and everyone I've met has been super friendly!
Working at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Company employees
Currently Hiring Countries
United Kingdom
Office Locations
Awards & Achievements
2nd – Mission Driven
Flexa awards 2025
Most flexible companies
Flexa100 2024Battersea Dogs & Cats Home's live feed
📣 Calling all businesses... zoom calls are over, zoomies are on! 🏃♂️ Sign up now for Battersea’s Bark Run for Businesses!
Get your pack together for beautiful summer evening 5k fun run through Battersea Park, knowing every step will help dogs and cats at Battersea and beyond.
Expect:
🐶 Dogs to meet on the day... of course!
🥢 Delicious food and drink from Dishoom, Oh My Dog! Hot Dog's, Forest Road Brewing Company and Vietvan London
🤝 New connections at the post-run reception
Find out more here 👉https://bit.ly/4bxnEgD
Health and wellbeing
Company socials and events
Charity and volunteering
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
4mo ago
Battersea is well known for our work in the UK supporting dogs and cats, but did you know we also support companion animal welfare internationally?
We're here for every dog and cat, wherever they are in the world 🌎 That's why we work closely with organisations such as Jai Dog Rescue, who are doing crucial work to support dogs in Thailand. 🐶
Partnering with fellow dog and cat welfare operations means we can work together to have the most impact for animals, wherever they are, because we are #AllInForThem
Charity and volunteering
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
5mo ago
Looking for a flexible opportunity in Content management? 🤔
We are currently recruiting for a Content Manager here at Battersea. In this role, you will be responsible for , you will be responsible for implementing and iterating the content framework which identifies the what, why, and how of producing high-quality, effective content at Battersea.
Find out more here
📅 Applications close 3rd November
Work-life balance
WFH
Working parents
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
6mo ago
Interested in supporting Battersea to grow to make sure we can be here for every cat and dog? 🐱🐶
We currently have a great opportunity for a Direct Marketing Officer to join our team. You will join our dedicated Income Generation team to manage and deliver a series of high standard direct marketing campaigns across our Regular Giving programme.
Find out more here
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
8mo ago
Last month, 50 of our employees walked, danced and marched shoulder to shoulder once again with our friends at RSPCA and Dogs Trust in the 2024 London Pride Parade.
Our participation in the parade was the culmination of a month of activity to mark Pride and show how we are here for every dog and cat & human.
Company socials and events
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
10mo ago
Happy Pride Month 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Battersea has always been, and will always be, an inclusive, open and welcoming place for every dog and cat, and human. We make this promise to our animals every day, and we also make it to our staff, volunteers and supporters. 💙
We marked the start of celebrations with a Pride flag raising ceremony at our London site 🏳️🌈
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
10mo ago
Last week at Battersea, we embraced Mental Health Awareness Week by holding a number of employee events focused on the theme Get Moving.
These included:
💃 Dance sessions, to get our bodies moving in a joyful and fun way
🚶 A group walk and talk
🧘 Meditation sessions with a focus on mindfulness
🎨 Mindful doodling and creative drawing
It was a lovely opportunity to bring our teams together, get people talking, and enjoy the benefits movement has on our minds 🙌
Health and wellbeing
Company socials and events
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
1yr ago
Last week some of our dogs and colleagues took to Battersea Park to take part in a 'Thank you Mary' walk to honour the inspirational woman and founder of Battersea, Mary Tealby.
Almost 50 colleagues took a moment to get together at our London centre in support of International Women's Day (8 March) and walk alongside some of our dogs.
It was a beautiful lunch time stroll in the sun and a great chance to mingle with colleagues, meet some of our dogs (especially for those that don't get to work directly with them) and think about all the ...
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
1yr ago
On Thursday last week, we became officially Flexified!
Some of the benefits we offer that helped us to achieve this include:
🏠 Desk-based employees can WFH 2-3 days per week
🍼 Enhanced parental leave and adoption leave
🏖️ 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
⏰ Open to job sharing, part time employees, and compressed hours
🐶 Our office is dog friendly (of course!)
And to top it all off, we even made it into the #Flexa100
About us
At Battersea, we aim never to turn away a dog or cat in need of our help. We give each one lots of love and expert care and get to know their characters and quirks so we can find them a new home that’s just right for them.
All the knowledge we gather in our centres helps us to improve the lives of the animals we’ll never meet, through our work with other rescue organisations and charities. We also help people make informed choices when getting a pet, we provide training and welfare advice, and we campaign for changes in the law when we see that dogs and cats or their owners deserve better. We want to be here for every dog and cat, wherever they are, for as long as they need us.
Flexible working at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
We're passionate about offering flexible working options.
Our office-based colleagues split their time between site-based and home working, spending around 50% of the working week at our Battersea office. We believe this enables colleagues to enjoy the benefits of home working, while allowing for collaboration and interaction with our animal-facing staff and maintaining a connection to our cause.
To enable a good work life balance, we offer ad hoc flexible working around our core office hours of 10am to 4pm.
It goes without saying that four-legged friends are a common sight in the Battersea offices too!
Approach to diversity & inclusion
At Battersea, we are committed to developing and supporting a workforce and inclusive culture in all that we do. We aim to ensure that this commitment, reinforced by our values, is embedded in our day-to-day working practices and our work together.
We want to ensure that everyone who comes into contact with Battersea is welcomed, valued and respected regardless of their race, age, gender, sex, disability, sexual orientation, social class, religion or belief. We strive to create lasting change for animals and the people that care for them and believe that creating a truly diverse and inclusive Battersea, which is proudly open to all, will be essential in our mission to deliver greater impact for dogs and cats everywhere.
We’re proud of the inclusive culture that we’ve fostered at Battersea. But we also know that we need to do more to make our workforce and sector even more diverse and inclusive, and take actionable steps to ensure this is embedded in our culture and our everyday ways of working.
We are a member of Inclusive Employers, who partner with us to look at continual improvements and best practice in terms of inclusion and diversity, a Disability Confident Committed employer, and a Menopause Friendly Committed employer. We have also committed to the #ShowtheSalary campaign, where we ensure salary transparency for all our roles to help address pay gaps in the charity sector, especially for Black candidates and women.
We recognise the importance of supporting positive mental health at work. That's why we have a wide pool of Mental Health First Aiders who help us to promote a workplace culture where staff feel comfortable to discuss mental health issues openly and feel supported by their colleagues when they do so.
Battersea is committed to listening and working with our staff and volunteers to further our inclusive culture and implement best practice. One way we do this is through our staff-led inclusion networks. They are fully inclusive and open to all, including allies so people can better understand the perspectives of their colleagues. We work closely with our inclusion networks to determine how we can best mark key dates in the calendar year that reflect the diverse makeup of our staff and volunteers in ways that are meaningful, authentic, relevant, and impactful.
Awards & Achievements
2nd – Mission Driven
Flexa awards 2025Most flexible companies
Flexa100 2024Behind the scenes at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
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