New Arrivals Groom (Late Shift) (2235)

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Salary:

£20,280 per annum

Poscity:

Sidmouth

Poscountry:

United Kingdom

Area:

Equine Operations

Vacancy Type:

Fixed Term Contract

Full or Part Time?:

Part Time

The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare organisation, offering care and protection to donkeys worldwide. Our vision is a world where every donkey has a good quality of life, and our mission is to improve the lives of donkeys every day. We will achieve this by transforming the lives of donkeys in need worldwide by fostering greater understanding, collaboration and support, and by promoting lasting, mutually life-enhancing relationships.

Upon arrival at The Donkey Sanctuary, all animals spend a minimum of six weeks at the New Arrivals Unit. Vaccinations, weights, farriery, worming and dental details are updated before the animals then join the resident herds at our farms. Strict Bio-security measures are in place in order to minimise the risk of the spread of infection between groups.

We now have an excellent opportunity for a professional and highly self-motivated team player with significant equine and animal husbandry skills and experience to join our New Arrivals team. This is a varied and interesting role, which plays a critical part in settling the donkeys into their new environment, and calls for the ability to work unsupervised late shifts alone whilst strictly maintaining all New Arrivals procedures and protocols.

About You

• Experience of animal husbandry
• Experience of working with equines that have behavioural problems.
• Farm skills experience.
• Physical fitness and the ability to lift, for example, a bag of feed (approx. 20 kg).
• Willing to work outside in the dark and in adverse weather conditions.
• Full, current valid driving licence.

About The Role

Your principal duties and responsibilities will include –

• Providing care by routine observation, feeding, medicating, grooming, weighing and worming the donkeys, mules, ponies and hinnies.
• Assisting with New Arrivals routines such as farriery, dentals, veterinary examinations and vaccinations.
• Providing care for donkeys with special, additional and behavioural needs and requirements.
• Mucking out, feeding and bedding up of barns and stables and distributing hay, haylage and bagged feedstuffs.
• Ordering, preparing and administering medications under veterinary advice.
• Maintaining a safe working environment.
• Providing feedback on a daily basis to the New Arrivals Manager on matters such as donkey health and feeding regimes and maintain up to date records for all equines within the unit.