Careers Spotlight

Working at Guide Dogs isn’t your everyday office job. This is heads, hearts and hands-on stuff. Each month our Spotlight series shines a light on one of our many life-affirming roles.

“Families don’t want sympathy; they want to feel as if the person they’re talking to has a real understanding of what they’re going through.”

This month, family support officer Abigail Strong shares how it feels to help parents receiving a first diagnosis of their child or teen’s vision impairment, and why she loves helping families to navigate the world of vision impairments.

We’ve got a fantastic range of jobs - over 400 roles - at Guide Dogs. So this week, we’re asking Alex Pepper, our first Head of Accessibility, what makes him tick. Clue: it’s got a lot to do with levelling the playing field while giving stepladders to all those who need.

An interview with Emma Mellor, a technical learning specialist for Guide Dogs