Animal Care Lead

3 months ago


Barry, United Kingdom Amelia Trust Farm Full time

**Join the Amelia Trust team as an Animal Care Lead.**

**Why join us?**

If you’re looking for a new challenge, you have experience working with animals in a professional setting, and you’d like to make a real difference in your local community, we would love to hear from you.

Amelia Trust is a charity supporting disadvantaged and vulnerable young people. Based in the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan, we aim to encourage everyone to enjoy spending time outside. Animals play a key role in the work we do with young people and are very popular with our visitors.

**About the Role**

We are looking to recruit a new Animal Care Lead who will work 28 hours per week on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, 9am - 4.30pm.

With experience of delivering animal care in a work setting, we need someone who will clean animal accommodation and carry out animal health care checks.

As part of your role, you’ll work in our lovely countryside environment and spend time chatting to visitors about our animals.

Amelia Trust is committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

**Specific Areas of Responsibility**:

- To feed the animals and clean their accommodation
- To carry out daily health checks on all animals and ensure regular care is carried out including shearing, foot trimming, dental checks, vaccinations etc liaising with vets and other specialists
- To ensure all animal enclosures and surrounding areas are well maintained, clean safe, and that bio-security is in place
- To welcome the visiting general public to the Farm and provide relevant information
- To deliver sessions involving the animals to the general public, children at party bookings and other groups ensuring the safety of both animals and people
- To supervise the work of the Animal Care Worker, Farm Rangers (paid staff) and animal care volunteers
- To interview potential new animal care volunteers, deliver induction sessions for them when they start and co-ordinate their work
- In consultation with the Director, to arrange any emergency care for the animals.
- To manage stock levels of animal supplies and equipment and arrange timely procurement which is value for money
- To keep appropriate records up to date
- To carry out fortnightly inspection of the livery areas
- To ensure that all the animals are safely housed at the end of the day
- To ensure compliance with the provisions of the Animal Welfare Act 2006, Health and Safety and other relevant legislation
- To undertake such other tasks as may be required by the Director

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 28 per week

**Salary**: £17,079.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Barry: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person



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