Yard Team Leader

3 weeks ago

Forfar, United Kingdom Redwings Horse Sanctuary Full time

**Yard Team Leader (Equine)**

**Forfar, Scotland**

**40 hours per week as per rota (to include weekends) 08.00 am - 16.30 pm**.**

**(3-month probationary period applies)**

**On a two-week rolling rota**

**Week 1: Mon, Tue, Wed, Turs, Sat & Sun**

**Week 2: Tue, Wed, Thurs, and Fri**

Salary £21,216.00 per annum for over 18s’

Rising to £21,424.00 per annum for over 18s’ after successful completion of probation period.

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 full clean driving licence is essential as driving of company vehicles is involved.**

**Closing date and time: 12 noon Friday 31**st** March 2023**

**Job Purpose**

To work under the specific supervision of the Centre Manager or Deputy Manager, while motivating, instructing and line managing team members as assigned to do so by the Manager. Ensuring the centre provides a high standard of care of the equines.

To be responsible for the day to day running of assigned tasks and to lead the team as required, in a professional and proactive manner.

**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, haynets 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 manage on a rota basis Yard Team Members within your area.

To oversee the task allocation of the yard in the absence of the manager and ensure all daily tasks are carried out.

To assist with general administration as required.

To count and cross check equines in fields / at locations using database records and where appropriate supervise the counting and related record keeping.

To inform senior staff of equine ailments and needs.

To give prescribed medication to some of the equines under your care.

To ensure paddocks are checked for hazards and clean.

To catch and hold nervous horses for the farrier and /or veterinary purposes.

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**

To ensure that the visitor experience at Redwings Mountains is always positive.

To take visitors on tour of the site.

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.

**Expectations**

To participate in departmental and “in house” training and carry learned skills into practice.

To ensure, as far as reasonably practical, observance and adherence to the health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

To ensure that services and conduct are in accordance with sanctuary standards, equal opportunities and objectives of Quality Assurance.

To perform other such duties, of a like nature, as may from time to time be required by the sanctuary.

Caring for large animals is a very physical activity and the role involves bending, lifting and other labour intensive tasks. The person carrying this role must therefore be physically fit to carry out many of the tasks

**Person Specification**:
**Essential Criteria**:
Education/Qualifications
- Experience of using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Caring of equines or animals
- Handling equines with behavioural problems

Skills/Knowledge
- Written skills for record keeping
- Numerate
- Good interpersonal skills
- Organisational and time management skills
- Equine knowledge to a good standard
- Accuracy
- General understanding of health & safety issues
- Ability to prioritise and to make intelligent decisions
- To be able to relate and understand information both written and verbally

Qualities/Attributes
- Enthusiasm and passion for the cause
- Adherence to strict confidentiality
- Attention to detail
- Team player
- Copes well under pressure
- Able to integrate into an established team
- Flexible approach to tasks and workloads
- A commitment to Equine Welfare
- The ability to spot something is potentially wrong, observing changes in equines

Other Requirements
- Certain driving duties
- Attend courses and or meetings that may be required

**Desirable Criteria**

Education/Qualifications
- Formal qualifications in equine care

Skills/Knowledge
- Communications skills. IT. etc.

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