Yard Team Member - Forfar, United Kingdom - Redwings Horse Sanctuary

Redwings Horse Sanctuary

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Forfar, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Horse Yard Team Member

Forfar, Scotland

Full time permanent 40 hours

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Part time permanent 24 hours

Available as per rota (to include weekends)

8.00am to 4.30pm

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 vacancy has arisen for enthusiastic and flexible individuals, with experience in equine care to join our team at Redwings Mountains on a permanent full-time and part time basis.

Working as part of a team you will carry out day to day horse care duties to ensure the smooth and professional running of the centre.

Please note that due to the remote location of our Mountains Visitor Centre applicants will require their own transport.

Salary £10.42 per hour for over 23s'

£10.18 per hour for 21-22s'

£7.49 per hour for under 18s'

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 for this position._

Closing date:
Friday 28th
April 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 stables/shelters are mucked out thoroughly, water receptacles are clean and refilled, hay nets filled and weighed.

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

Skills/Ability/Knowledge

Ability to prioritise and to make intelligent decisions. To be able to relate and understand information both written and verbally.

Qualities/Attributes

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.

Other Requirements