Equine Centre Team Member - Oxhill, United Kingdom - Redwings Horse Sanctuary
Description
Horse Care Team Member
Near Banbury, Warwickshire
40 hours per week as per rota (to include weekends)
A vacancy has arisen for enthusiastic and flexible individual with experience in equine care to join the Equine Centre Team at our Oxhill Visitor Centre on a full-time permanent basis.
Benefits include a workplace pension scheme, employee assistance programme, Cycle2Work Scheme, death in service benefit, Sanctuary sick pay and a minimum of 30 days holiday per year including bank holidays.
A sound knowledge and proven working background of horse health and welfare is necessary, as is familiarity with Health and Safety Regulations.
£21,174.40 for 21-22s'
£15,579.20 for 18-20's
In addition, we offer shift workers a premium pay rate on Sundays (time and a half) and Bank Holidays (double time).
_A full clean manual driving licence is essential_
Closing date:
Friday 15th
September 2023
Job Purpose
To work under the specific supervision of the Centre Deputy or Team Leader and provide a high standard of care, ensuring the welfare of the equines in your centre.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
To provide high quality care that ensures all equines have access to suitable water, feed and shelter and to ensure that hygiene is maintained.
To ensure instructions regarding the feeding of equines is followed stringently.
To give a visual health check to the equines including lameness
To inform senior staff of equine ailments and needs.
Medication will be prescribed to some of the equines under your care, this you will expected to give on your rounds,
To ensure paddocks are checked for hazards and clean.
The catching and holding of nervous horses for the farrier and /or veterinary purposes.
Tractor driving, using paddock sweeper and other implements.
General use of tack and equine handling equipment.
To understand the importance of effective communication, observation and unified team work.
To liaise regularly with your line manager.
To be an effective team member.
Visitor Centre (if applicable)
To interact in a welcoming, informative and professional manner with visitors
To be knowledgeable on the Redwings Adoption Scheme and to be able to relay this to Visitors. etc.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria:
Experience
- Caring of Equines or animals
- Ability to prioritise and to make intelligent decisions. To be able to relate and understand information both written and verbally.
- Able to integrate into an established team. Flexible approach to tasks and workloads. A commitment to Equine Welfare. The ability to spot something is potently wrong, observing changes in Equines.
- Certain driving duties., Attend courses and or meeting that may be required.
Desirable Criteria:
Education/Qualifications
- Formal Qualifications in Equine support
- Working for a similar organisation specialising in Equine Care
- Communication skills. I.T
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