25/09/2026
🌟PART TIME / ENTRY LEVEL JOB OPPORTUNITIES🌟
Are you passionate about dogs, great customer service, and looking to gain hands-on workplace experience? If so then Barnyard could be the place for you!
Barnyard is looking for enthusiastic team members to join our indoor dog play and retail space team. and have a number of opportunities available during the week. Please read full details including the application process. Further info about these vacancies can be found on our website at https://www.barnyardcheshire.co.uk/jobvacancies
Working approximately 4 hours per week initially (week days) (although shifts available from 2.5 hours per week), this role is ideally suited as an entry-level opportunity with the flexibility to accommodate college students or others seeking flexible hours. It is designed to help you build practical skills in customer relations and retail operations while working in a dog-centred environment alongside a supportive team.
🌟What You’ll Be Doing:
• Dog & Visitor Care: Welcoming human guests and their dogs into our indoor play area, ensuring a safe, friendly, and vibrant environment.
• Play Area Maintenance: Keeping all dog play zones and dog wash facilities clean, sanitised, tidy, and safe throughout the day.
• Retail Operations: Potential to assist with shop floor tasks, restock inventory, answer customer enquiries, and learn basic point-of-sale (POS) skills during quieter periods through our adjacent Pet & Equestrian Retail store.
• Customer Experience: Helping organise events, supervising dog play sessions to ensure that they run smoothly, and ensuring every guest leaves happy and dogs leave with their tails wagging.
🌟What We Are Looking For:
• Strong work ethic, reliable attendance, and a positive attitude.
• A genuine love for dogs and comfort working around pets of all sizes and energy levels.
• Good communication skills and a willingness to help human visitors.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment and handle physical activity (cleaning, moving stock, standing during shifts).
• Candidates who are able to work short shifts of up to approx. 4 hour blocks during the weekday with some flexibility to work weekend, evening, or holiday shifts as agreed.
🌟What We Offer
• Flexible shifts structured around your college timetable or other life commitments during the week, with the option of additional hours during holiday and busy periods.
• On-the-job training in animal focused environment upkeep, retail merchandising and operations and customer service.
• A fun, active, and supportive team environment in our independent, family run business.
• Fully compliant pay rate meeting National Minimum Wage standards based on your age bracket.
❗️How to Apply❗️
All Applications must be submitted using our Microsoft Forms Questionnaire at the following link
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/qrE5PtAr60
Closing date for initial applications: Friday 25th September 2026
We intend to hold an initial recruitment event for candidates invited on Wednesday 30th September 2026 Between 4pm – 6pm Where you will meet some of the team, find out more about the role and undergo a friendly, initial assessment. Candidates invited to the recruitment session will be contacted directly.