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Equine Groom Apprentice - Livery Yard and Stud
CHESHIRE
£14.6k/yr
Posted about 1 month ago
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We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Groom to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who already has good basic equine experience and is looking to build a career in the equestrian industry while completing a full apprenticeship through Haddon Training.
All daily yard duties to include :
- Mucking out, feeding, and turnout
- Lunging
- Grooming and tacking up
- Maintaining high standards of horse care and yard presentation
- Learning and developing new skills in a professional environment
- Possibility to bring your own horse (contribution required)
- Some riding available for the right candidate
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Course Contents
Core
- Work safely and efficiently at all times and comply with current health, safety, and security policies and procedures (including PPE).
- Carry out all typical yard and field routine duties to include mucking out, skipping out, tidying and cleaning the yard, watering and feeding.
- Assess suitability of stabling and grassland environments for horses including checking for hazards, etc.
- Assist with the arrival of a new horse to the yard, following current yard procedures and measures to prevent and control the spread of disease.
- Recognise, identify, and describe horses including sex, height, type, colours, and markings.
- Identify anatomy of the horse to include the bones of the lower limb, points of the horse, and the position of the major internal organs.
- Recognise signs of good and poor welfare (including ill health) and check for injuries.
- Report relevant information and assist with medical treatment and other industry specialists, including Senior Groom, Dentist, Farrier, Veterinary Surgeon.
- Ensure the horses’ welfare before and after exercise or travel.
- Handle a variety of horses in the workplace to include tying up, leading, trotting up, turning out, and catching in.
- Recognise different types of feed and hay and check their quality.
- Groom a horse including checking feet and shoes.
- Demonstrate trimming and plaiting.
- Fit a variety of common saddlery, equipment, and horse clothing.
- Remove, clean, and store common saddlery and equipment.
- Check the safe and effective working condition of all saddlery, equipment, and clothing.
- Prepare horse(s) for travel using appropriate clothing and equipment.
- Assist with loading and unloading before and after travel.
- Prepare for and provide a variety of appropriate non-ridden exercise including fitting and use of lungeing equipment.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, supervisors, visitors, and clients whilst showing good interpersonal skills.
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Flat
- Ride appropriately to follow school rules and regulations in relation to flat groom duties.
- Adopt an appropriate basic riding position on the flat.
- Ride an experienced schooled horse, according to instruction, independently or as part of a group, in an enclosed area.
- Ride in a balanced, secure position, showing control at walk, trot, and canter, working with and without stirrups whilst demonstrating movements (for example, circles, turns, etc.).
- Ride on the road or in public places according to laid down procedures, Highway and Country Codes.
- Open and close a gate whilst mounted.
- Ride a quiet horse whilst leading another quiet horse or pony.
- Walk and trot over poles positioned on the ground in a steady and consistent rhythm.
- Ride in the open, according to instruction, with control, security, and balance over varied terrain, negotiating everyday obstacles/hazards.
Jump
- Adopt an appropriate basic riding position when jumping.
- Ride in a balanced, secure forward seat over a short course of fences, with control, security, and balance.
- Ride a quiet horse whilst leading another quiet horse or pony.
- Ride in the open, according to instruction, with control, security, and balance over varied terrain, negotiating everyday obstacles/hazards.
- Open and close a gate whilst mounted.
- Ride on the road or in public places according to laid down procedures, Highway and Country Codes.
- Walk and trot over poles positioned on the ground in a steady and consistent rhythm.
- Ride an experienced schooled horse, according to instruction, independently or as part of a group, in an enclosed area.
- Ride appropriately to follow agreed industry protocols and regulations in relation to a racing exercise groom duties.
Racing Exercise
- Provide pre and post-race care including compliance with industry regulations.
- Handle Thoroughbred racehorses in and out of full work.
- Prepare and lead up a Thoroughbred racehorse at the races in accordance with industry practice and the Rules of Racing.
- Fit a variety of specialist racing equipment and tack.
- Provide ridden exercise regimes to Thoroughbred racehorses according to instructions, safely and in control, with a good, secure, and balanced position, in line with yard and industry practice.
- Carry out the specific routines required in a racing yard.
- Implement technique and methods to maintain industry weight and fitness requirements for riding racehorses in training.
Racing Yard
- Prepare and lead up a Thoroughbred racehorse at the races in accordance with industry practice and the Rules of Racing including pre and post-race activities.
- Provide non-ridden exercise regimes to Thoroughbred racehorses safely and according to instruction.
- Assist and support Racing Grooms and provide non-ridden exercise regimes.
- Fit a variety of specialist racing equipment and tack.
- Handle Thoroughbred racehorses in and out of full training.
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Non-Riding
- Assist with storage of supplies and stock rotation.
- Contribute to the organisation and routine maintenance tasks within the workplace.
- Engage with customers and identify their needs.
- Assist with appropriate office duties including answering the telephone, processing information, and using workplace IT systems.
- Contribute to yard-based records including passports, vaccinations, worming, farriery, dentistry, etc.
- Prepare for and lunge a horse for exercise in an enclosed area according to instruction.
- Contribute to yard-based industry record keeping, operate equipment, machinery, and technology appropriately to assist with the effective organisation and maintenance of the commercial business premises.
Breeding
- Handling equines used for breeding purposes including leading a mare through the stocks.
- Demonstrate catching a mare and foal or young stock from grass/stable with due considerations for health and safety.
- Restraining a foal during mare inspection or cover.
- Assist with the preparation and show off equines of varying ages, as directed, for commercial and/or private sale or grading including standing a horse up correctly for inspection as per the requirements of the breed.
- Show a horse correctly in hand at walk and trot.
- Act as a groom and/or back-stepper in exercising, show, and (or) trials.
Driving
- Harness up and put to with an assistant a single turnout in both a two and four-wheeled vehicle.
- Exercise horses/ponies in a non-driving environment, to be able to lunge or long rein in an enclosed area, in a circle for exercise purposes.
- Drive a quiet pleasure single turnout in an enclosed area demonstrating safe rein handling, turns to the left and right, in the walk and trot. To be able to halt, mount, and dismount in a safe manner.
- Demonstrate safe use of the mandatory driving aid as a communication tool.
- Take a horse out of a vehicle with assistance, and unharness horse in a safe manner.
- Dismantle, clean, and put back together all the parts of a leather or composite harness.
- Clean a wooden and (or) metal vehicle (two and four-wheeled) and store safely.
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Skills
care for horses
assign duties to agriculture workers
communication
attend to detail
work in an organised manner
solve problems
conduct public presentations
teamwork principles
show initiative
exercise patience
maintain physical fitness
livestock reproduction
young horses training
animal nutrition
training equipment for riding
animal welfare legislation
equine dental diseases
transportation vehicles for horses
breed-specific behaviour of horses
biology