
Job vacancies 17 October 2025
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Veterinary Care Assistant, Tranent
- company: Dunedin Veterinary Surgeons
- hours: Part-time (28 hours per week)
- salary: £12.21 per hour
Animal Care Assistant (ACA) required by Dunedin Veterinary Centres, for our busy Tranent veterinary clinic. Applicants with suitable experience are preferred but training will be provided.
You will be empathetic, passionate and keen to provide the very best service for our clients and their pets. Good communication skills are very important as you will be working as part of a team.
This role involves animal handling and supporting the veterinary team in many aspects of clinical practice, including caring for pets and cleaning. There will be some front-of-house responsibility, so a nice telephone manner would be helpful as well as a positive attitude.
If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare, exceptional customer service and would like to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- cover reception when required
- making appointments and answering phones
- support veterinarians during examinations and treatments
- handle and restrain animals during procedures
- assist with laboratory procedures and diagnostic tests
- maintain cleanliness and organisation in the veterinary clinic
- monitor animal patients post-surgery
- provide compassionate care to animals and their owners
Hours – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (7 hour days)
Store Assistant, Haddington
- company: Toolstation
- hours: Part-time (20 hours per week)
- salary: £12.37 per hour
We are looking for candidates who live locally and can easily commute to our store.
Our stores are open from 7am to 8pm, so you must be able to manage early starts and late finishes.
At Toolstation, we're not just looking for what you can bring to us today – we’re focused on helping you grow with us. Many of our managers started as Store Assistants and now run their own stores or oversee operations.
If you're after a fast-paced role with an employee-focused retailer that’s passionate about making customers happy, this could be the perfect fit for you!
You’ll be the friendly face of Toolstation, helping customers find what they need, but you'll also be hands-on with deliveries, warehouse tasks, and stocking shelves. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves! It can get hot in summer and chilly in winter, but if you care about doing a good job and providing great customer service, you’ll fit right in.
No retail experience? No problem! All we ask is that you're committed to delivering excellent service, and we’ll teach you everything else.
Get stuck in: Be ready to handle deliveries, unpack stock, keep the store clean, and prepare orders. Hard work and a positive attitude are more important than experience.
Provide outstanding service: Whether you're chatting with customers or staying efficient during busy times, you'll always offer a great experience.
Ask the right questions: Show genuine interest in customers' projects so you can help them find everything they need to get the job done right.
Be Proactive: you’ll be expected to sell the benefits of Toolstation Club and Trade Accounts, signing customers up to experience great deals and competitive prices.
Customer Team Member, Haddington
- company: Co-op
- hours: part-time (14 hours)
- salary: £12.60 per hour
As a Customer Team Member, you’ll be part of a friendly team that’s dedicated to helping our customers. We’ll look to you to provide them with great service on the tills and the shop floor, while also performing a wide range of other tasks around the store like re-stocking shelves and cleaning up spillages.
What you'll do
- friendly and thoughtful service – you’ll put customers first in everything you do: responding to queries, championing Co-op products and Membership, and doing all you can to deliver a great shopping experience
- work together to make everyone's day better – supporting your store colleagues to solve problems for customers and members
- make sure the store safe and legal – keep the shelves stocked and make sure prices, dates, and temperatures are all as they should be
- help introduce new products and services – make changes feel natural, sharing experiences with your colleagues so everyone learns together
- support your local community – get involved in all kinds of activities and events!
This job would suit people who have
- a genuine care for the needs of customers and members
- great people skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with customers and colleagues
- a positive approach to change and problem solving
- the flexibility to work a range of different shifts
Customer Team Member, North Berwick
- company: Specsavers
- hours: Full-time
- salary: £10.20 - £12.40 per hour (depending on age)
Are you a caring individual looking to start your career as an Optical Assistant? You’ve come to the right place.
We aren’t looking for people with years of experience and heaps of qualifications, just passionate, hard-workers ready to confidently welcome and help customers as they walk through our doors. And once you’ve found your feet as a Trainee Optical Assistant, you don’t just have to stop there. We have plenty of professional training and development in other business areas, as well as the support of experienced Opticians and Technicians supporting you on your journey. So whatever you want your career to look like, you can bring it to life at Specsavers.
Some of the responsibilities of this role include
- welcoming customers into store
- booking in eye tests
- pre-screening patients
- providing style advice
- measuring frames
- taking phone call