- Salary
- Depends on Experience
- Work Type
- Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Optional
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 425262
- Status
- Looking
- Updated
- 18/12/2024
- Expires
- in one month
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Groom required for specialist equine reproduction veterinary clinic. We focus on all aspects of breeding work from stallion training and collections, to broodmare AI, embryo flushing and transferring, OPU, right through to foaling down and weaning. Full time groom (5 days per week, to include 1 weekend day) required for 2025 season and beyond! Grooms tasks include: mucking out; filling haynets; daily field checks; keeping the yard clean and tidy; bringing mares for vets to scan; assisting with stallion collections; foaling down (if experienced); general cleaning down of equipment; feeding/haying field-kept horses; poo picking turnout pens. Ability to carry out basic maintenance such as fencing, fixing water drinkers, etc and driving tractor for haying fields and emptying muck trailer are very much preferred!!
Requirements
Experience in tractor driving preferred. Ideally over 25 for vehicle insurance policy. Team player with decent sense of humour! Proof of Right to Work in UK - no visas available!!
Required Key Skills
Driving license HGV license Drive Horsebox Equine First-Aid Handling Youngstock Trim/Pull Sole Charge People SkillsRequired Expertise
Sole Charge StudAccommodation
Shared accommodation on-site in newly built flats available for right candidate.
Job Benefits
Learn more about the ins and outs of all aspects of breeding with on-the-job training. Training courses/CPD courses for the right candidate.
- Employer No
- 350359
- Website
- https://www.equibreed.co.uk
- Location
- Beenham, Berkshire, UK
Equestrian Employer Details
Equibreed UK is based near Theale, Reading and offers a wide variety of equine reproductive services designed to deliver the best fertility outcome for mares and their owners.
Offering both a stable side and onsite embryo transfer and artificial insemination service, we can cater for all aspects of embryo transfer and artificial insemination and are able to offer the embryo transfer service that is most suitable. Our stable side embryo transfer service offers a dedicated equine embryo transfer reproductive vet within the Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Sussex and Greater London areas, and consultancy services in Devon, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Suffolk and well beyond.
Equibreed UK has a clinic base at Beenham (RG7) and has a mix of resident and visiting stallions as well as recipient mare herds and mares for foaling down.