Apprentice: Livery Yard With Competition Ponies And Riding School. Opportunity To Learn To Coach
Tom Bird Equestrian, Whichford, Warwickshire, UK
- Salary
- UK Minimum Wage
- Work Type
- Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Optional
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 421520
- Status
- Looking
- Updated
- 7/3/2025
- Expires
- in 3 months
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We are therefore looking for a new apprentice to work alongside our livery yard and riding school yard managers. We have a number of liveries on their journey to GB Pony Trials who will need their ponies caring for, helping with fittening work and schooling. .Our Riding School is a Pony Club Center. and is very hands on with almost all our clients involved in stable management as well as riding and many go out XC schooling or compete on our riding school horses. This apprentice role will vary according to the persons experience and level. It could involve helping to school ponies for someone with experience and with fittening work or it could be you learn to plait, clip, trim etc. There is the opportunity to learn to coach if you would like to The person must have good people skills and be patient so that they can be personable with owners and clients. Someone with the right personality is extremely important.
We use Stubbing Court or The National Racing School as our Training provider who are both excellent. As well as training with us for your L2 or L3 Apprenticeship, learning about feeding, fittening, lungeing and riding for example and gaining experience at events, there are opportunities for riding or observing at Master-Classes with top riders and trainers and to gain additional qualifications.
Can be from 4, 4.5 or 5 days a week
Requirements
You will need to have had some previous experience handling and caring for horses, tacking up etc
Required Key Skills
Driving licenseAccommodation
Accommodation available in a nice mobile home
Job Benefits
4, 4.5 or 5 Day week 28 days holiday pro rata Training Opportunity to work towards coaching qualifications
- Employer No
- 101863
- Location
- Whichford, Warwickshire, UK
Equestrian Employer Details
We now have 3 separately staffed yards: Event Yard with Tom Bird: I am a young event rider who has ridden to 5* completing Burghley as the youngest competitor in 2023 and was 2nd at Bramham in the U25's. I have event horses ranging from youngsters being backed through to 5* Level with horses being aimed at Badminton, Bramham and Burghley including Sept 2024. Although I am younger I have grown up helping clients and would like to think that if you asked my staff or clients, they would say that I had excellent people skills The Livery Yard has adults with RC horses, younger children learning to compete and taking part in pony club, but we now have a lot of children with ponies working towards Pony Trials who need help and support both schooling their horses and at competitions. All are lovely - we are very lucky! The Riding School is very friendly encouraging clients to be involved in care of the horses rather than just arriving to ride. Many learn to compete on our school horses