Equine Centre Team Member - Oxhill, United Kingdom - Redwings Horse Sanctuary

Redwings Horse Sanctuary

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Oxhill, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Horse Care Team Members

Near Banbury, Warwickshire
40 hours per week as per rota (to include weekends)

A vacancy has arisen for enthusiastic and flexible individuals with experience in equine care to join the Equine Centre Team at our Oxhill Visitor Centre on a full-time permanent basis.

Benefits include:

Workplace pension scheme
Employee assistance programme
Cycle2Work Scheme
Death in service benefit
Sanctuary sick pay
Minimum of 30 days holiday per year including bank holidays

Salary £21,673.60 for over 23s'

£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:
Tuesday 14th
November 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