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    4. Animal Keeper Placement Year Berkshire 2023
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    The Living Rainforest have an exciting opportunity for someone to join their small but knowledgable team on a work placement to gain some much-valued experience within an Animal environment. We are pleased to be able to offer a placement from September 2023 running until June 2024.

    The Trust for Sustainable Living is a registered charity based near Newbury, Berkshire. At our visitor centre, The Living Rainforest, the animal collection is contained within three tropical glasshouses and consists of more than 60 species. These include callitrichids, toucan and turacos, snakes, chelonia, stingrays, dendrobatids, and invertebrates and more.

    Role and Responsibilities

    • The primary role of the intern will be to learn the daily husbandry and routines of our animal department. This includes feeding animals, maintaining enclosures, daily record keeping, diet preparation and animal health checks.
    • You will also learn how to train and supervise our existing volunteers and participate in training new volunteers and work experience students.
    • You may also receive training and participate in keeper talks (which run through holidays) and keeper experiences.
    • You will have the opportunity to gain knowledge of the different aspects of the department such as veterinary treatment, enclosure design and record keeping.

    Terms of placement

    • This is a 9 to 10 month voluntary work placement for a registered charity, to begin in September 2023 (we can offer flexibility in relation to the time frame and start date).
    • Whilst this is an unpaid placement, we can however assist with some reasonable travel expenses.
    • The success candidate will receive hands-on experience with a variety of species, suitable training and work within a strong team with a wide range of skills and knowledge.
    • Our hours are 8.30 am to 5pm. Five days a week on a rota basis. This will include weekends and bank holidays.

    The applicant

    • This placement is ideal for a candidate working towards an Animal related qualification, who would like to partake in this internship in order to seek further industry experience.
    • Applicants should be enthusiastic, hard-working and have a willingness to learn new skills.
    • It is vital that you have your own form of transport to get to and from The Living Rainforest each day as there is no public transport due to the remote local of our site.
    • In addition, we do not have any on-site accommodation.

    Apply for this job

    To apply, please send your CV together with a short cover letter to robynd@livingrainforest.org.

    Thank you for your interest in joining our team. Due to the popularity of some vacancies, if we haven’t contacted you back within 28 days, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.

    We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

    The Living Rainforest is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and Adults at Risk.