Our Arundel Wetland Centre is looking for a Casual Living Collection Assistant to support the Collection Manager by ensuring animal husbandry and welfare meet the highest standards at all times, in accordance with the Secretary of State’s Standards for Modern Zoo Practice, ensuring zoo licence inspection standards are met and that recommendations from regular WWT Vet and Living Collection Manager inspections are implemented.
This will involve:
- Caring for the animals in our collection to ensure excellent standards of welfare. Including feeds, daily health checks, health care and maintaining cleanliness/biosecurity standards.
- Maintaining pens to agreed welfare and presentation standards throughout the year, including fence integrity, vegetation management, pond management and filter management.
- Participating enthusiastically in events, daily talks and other engagement activities to ensure an excellent experience for visitors.
- Working collaboratively with the wider Arundel, and WWT team to deliver joint objectives and aims.
This is a casual position, therefore, hours are offered and worked on an ad-hoc basis as and when required.