Yard Team Member

2 weeks ago


Forfar, United Kingdom Redwings Horse Sanctuary Full time

**Horse Yard Team Member**

**Forfar, Scotland**

**Part time permanent 24 hours**

Available as per rota (to include weekends)

8.00am to 4.30pm

Week 1: Mon, Sat & Sun

Week 2: Tue, Wed & Fri

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.

A vacancy has arisen for an enthusiastic and flexible individual, with experience in equine care to join our team at Redwings Mountains on a permanent part time basis

Please note that due to the remote location of our Mountains Visitor Centre applicants will require their own transport.

**Salary**:
£13,004.16 per annum for over 23s’

£12,704.64 per annum for 21-22s’

£9,347.52 per annum for under 18s’

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 for this position._**

**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
- Certain driving duties., Attend courses and or meeting that may be required.

Desirable Criteria:
Education/Qualifications
- Formal Qualifications in Equine support

Experience
- Working for a similar organisation specialising in Equine Care

Skills/Ability/Knowledge
- Communication skills. I.T


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