Stable Manager
Millfield School, Street, Somerset, BA16, UK- Type
- Salary
- £30,000
- Work Type
- Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Optional
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 393538
- Status
- Looking
- Posted
- 6/7/2022
- Updated
- 6/10/2022
- Expires
- in 2 months
- Views
- 337
Millfield School is seeking a Stable Manager to head up our dynamic and hardworking team.
We have a large Equestrian Centre which has stabling for 40 horses with both indoor and outdoor arenas. We have ten riding school horses plus student livery horses.
The role of the Stable Manager will be to assist with (but not limited to):
Ensuring that duties allocated to grooms are carried out to the highest standards. Assist in the planning of daily routines. Achieving and maintaining the highest possible standards of care of all horses and ponies at Millfield Equestrian Centre. Communication with livery owners, ensuring that attention to detail and individual requirements are balanced with practical care and attention. Responsibility for repair, cleanliness, maintenance and storage of yard equipment and machinery. To coach and lecture pupils and exercise horses when required.
The successful applicant will have experience of managing a large yard and team, exceptional communication skills and be dedicated to the care of their equine charges.
The Stable Manager will work an average of 51 hours per week during term time between the hours of 6.45am to 6.30pm and an average of 41.75 hours per week during non-term time between the hours of 7.3
Required Key Skills
- Riding
- Driving license
- Drive Horsebox
- Equine First-Aid
- Schooling
- Lunging
- Bandaging
- Plaiting
- Clipping
- Teaching
- Exercising
- Competing
- Natural Horsemanship
- People Skills
Required Expertise
- Working with children
- Employer No
- 335383
- Name
- Millfield School
- Website
- http://www.millfieldschool.com
- Location
- Street, Somerset, UK
- Facility Type
Equestrian Centre for Independent boarding school situated in Somerset and caters to children ages 2 - 18. Facilities include stabling for up to 100 horses over 2 sites, combining accommodation in American style barns and traditional stables, indoor arena 44m x 64m, outdoor arena 50m x 70m, 2 sets of BS standard show jumps and portable X-C jumps, cross-country schooling fences, off road canter track and access to gallops, all-weather horse walker and round pen and resident yard staff.
Consists of 120 acres in which there is a hacking trail, a canter track and two all-weather arenas and a BE cross country course by Adrian Ditcham, designer of the 2012 Olympics cross country course.
