Senior Farm and Livestock Assistant - Livingston, United Kingdom - Almond Valley Heritage Trust

Almond Valley Heritage Trust

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Livingston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Looking for a new and exciting challenge?

Almond Valley is one of West Lothian's favourite family attractions and the farm is one of its most popular features.

It is home to a large range of farm livestock and smaller animals and is the only RBST accredited Farm Park in Central Scotland.

As a key support to the Farm Manager, the Senior Farm and Livestock Assistant will coordinate the team in their absence whilst providing advise and support, motivating the team, delegating tasks and rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.

You are required to have experience in animal husbandry and strong leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities

Provide daily care, feeding, and husbandry for a variety of animals
Monitor and maintaining the health and wellbeing of animals, reporting any concerns to the Farm Manager
Maintain appropriate records and ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, standards and accreditation schemes including the NFAN Code of Practice.
Maintain animal enclosures to ensure they are clean and safe

- delivering animal encounters and other visitor engagement

Ensuring adherence to all safety protocols and animal welfare standards
Delivering the day to day running of the farm, suggesting improvements to current practices.
Engaging with visitors and responding to enquires relating to the Farm

Team

To coordinate the efforts of team members, encouraging and motivating individuals to ensure customer service and standards are being delivered.
Create an environment where your colleagues can do their best work.
Delegate tasks and solve problems swiftly.

- take charge of the team in the absence of the Farm and Livestock Manager, and may carry out other specialist duties as delegated by that Manager.

General

Be accountable for their own development seeking out opportunities to learn new skills to continuously improve.
Work in a responsible and safe manner at all times adhering to Health & Safety, safe working practices and Company Policies and Procedures.
Such other reasonable duties as and when required by your Line Manager.
The above list of duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the role.

Salary:
£11.30 per hour

Benefits: