Casual Living Collection Assistant

Closing Date: 21/10/2025
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Arundel
What type of role are you interested in
Casual Worker
Advertising Salary
£12.25 per hour

About The Role

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.
 

About You

You'll have:
  • experience in using a range of maintenance and horticulture management techniques and tools and public speaking/walks/talks.
  • the ability to work unsupervised and make informed decisions, identify issues and report them to the appropriate person in a timely manner.
  • take responsibility for health and welfare of animals and be responsible for the safe use of machinery in line with Health & Safety legislation / guidance.
  • A natural empathy with birds and mammals is essential.
 

About Us

We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.

Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.

Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?

Why you’ll love working at WWT

  • Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
  • Be surrounded and inspired by our team of passionate, dedicated people
  • Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
  • Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
  • Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Contributory pension scheme

WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.

 
 

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