Responsibilities:
Animal Husbandry:
- Conduct daily checks and feeding of Farm Park livestock, ensuring proper care.
- Identify and address health issues in livestock, seeking assistance when necessary.
- Perform routine animal husbandry tasks such as foot care, worming, vaccinations and crutching.
- Maintain cleanliness of animal housing, shelters, hutches, nest boxes, and ponds, ensuring animals have access to clean drinking water and food throughout the day.
- Provide animal veterinary and medicinal care, maintaining records and organising medicine storage areas at CFP.
Farm Operations & Maintenance:
- Assist with feeding operations, including topping up or clearing ring feeders.
- Manage equipment and stock availability.
- Maintain and service farm machinery and tools under the guidance of the Livestock Manager.
- Coordinate with the Maintenance Manager regarding maintenance requirements, both to request additional practical help and to seek advice and guidance on areas outside of your skill set.
- Ensure the safety and maintenance of livestock equipment, water troughs, and stock fences, reporting any maintenance needs.
- Paddock sweeping and paddock tractor duties, including topping, harrowing, rolling etc.
- General farm work including topping, weed spraying, fencing, bale carting etc.
Shared Responsibilities:
All team members are expected to demonstrate the following skills and behaviours: job knowledge, quality and quantity of work, self-motivation and initiative, effective communication, positive attitude towards colleagues, understanding of documentation, customer knowledge, safety and organisation, timekeeping and attendance.
Skills and Experience Required:
Essential:
- Animal husbandry skills, including catching, health checking, and administering tasks such as foot care and medicine/injections.
- Maintenance experience including fencing, property repairs, alkythene plumbing
Job Information
This is a full-time, permanent position, with immediate start available.
The working pattern is 6 days per week, 5 hours per day including weekends on a rota basis.
Additional overtimehours during busy periods will be required.
This role involves physical work in an outdoor environment, covering a large area on foot, and requires regular manual handling.