Ref: GL29288
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General Information
- Age 29 years
- Date of Birth 24th July 1994
- Had previous paid employment within the equine industry? Locked
- Preferred Countries United Kingdom, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, The EU, Europe, United States of America, Other
- County/State/Region Anywhere
- Job Category Flexible Hours, Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Earliest start date 12th April 2024
- Freelance: Business Name Locked
- Freelance: Hourly Rate Locked
- Freelance: are you insured? Locked
- Available for Christmas Cover? Yes
- Notice period 1 month
- Best time to call Locked
- Working Couples: Partner's profile reference number Locked
- Live in or out Live in, Live out
- Co-habiting? Locked
- Full Postcode if live out (Private) Locked
- Expected Job Level Apprentice, Trainee, Groom, Part of a Team, Sole Charge, Home Groom, Stud Groom, Stud Hand
- Animals to bring to a job Locked
- Describe the animal/s you HAVE to bring to the job (if applicable) Locked
- Can drive None
- Own car? None
- Height 5”6’ / 167cm
- Approximate weight 9.5st / 60.3kg / 133lb
- Total years experience with horses Locked
- Previous paid/work experience Locked
- Future disciplines Carriage Driving, Classical, College, Dressage, Endurance, Family Yard, Hunting, Livery, Pony Club Activities, Riding for the Disabled (RDA), Rescue, Rehabilitation, Show Jumping, Stud, Therapeutic Riding, Training Yard/Positions, Trekking, Working Hunter
- Riding Role? Locked
- Nationality Singaporean
- Languages spoken Locked
- Qualifications Locked
- Equine Skills Bandage, Equine First Aid, Maintenance Skills, Management Skills, Muck Out, Sole charge
- Non-Equine Skills Locked
- Longest time in one job Locked
- Position held in this job Locked
- 2nd longest time in one job Locked
- Position held in this job Locked
- Upload your CV Locked
- Current passport? Locked
- DBS (formerly CRB) or equivalent Locked
- Smoker? Locked
- Locked
- Image Uploads Locked
Experience with Horses
Started my groom career as a volunteer in a therapy stable (for more than a year) and then worked in the same stable full time with 16 horses. Performed basic stable management.
Moved on to work in a Polo stable with privately owned horses and made responsible mainly for 6 horses, assisting in a yard of 30 horses. Mainly performed grooming, tacking up and ponying horses to and from yard and polo field.
I was given horses prone to skin issues as I could be trusted to keep them healthy and neat; an owner/polo player asked for me to specifically take care of his 2 horses.
| EXPERIENCE | ||
| Singapore Polo Club, Jan 2024 – Present
Groom (Polo section) • Mainly responsible for 6 polo horses, assisting in yard of 30 horses (all privately owned) Equal-Ark Singapore (therapy horses), Apr 2023 – Nov 2023 Groom • Improving welfare of 8 former polo horses, 2 OTTBs and 6 miniature horses of varying temperaments
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Key Skills
- Working independently or in a team, have worked alongside other grooms, former jockeys, volunteers, horse owners, and polo professionals.
- Organised and diligent
Strengths and Weaknesses
- What do you most enjoy about working with horses?
Taking care of their basic needs, ensuring they feel as good as possible wherever and whenever. The physical environment of a stable/manger and outdoor environment. - Is there anything you’d like to improve?
Improve my grooming of horses and understanding of their behaviour. Improve my knowledge of horse medical care. And all my other skills, especially with handling ‘difficult’ horses e.g. those that do not like to be groomed, or are difficult to lead, which I believe just need different and consistent training.
- Why should employers consider you above any other job seeker?
I am diligent, organised, and determined.
Started working with horses as a volunteer, couple of years after university and decided to take it as a full-time job.
To learn more, I moved to a local polo stable (not many other kinds of stables in my home country). I have always wished to live and work overseas.
Now all I want to do is to take care of almost every aspect of horses from mucking out to any special medical attention they might require.
Requirements
- What would you like to do or gain in your next job?
To provide as good care to horses as possible, and possibly better turnout.
To be a better and more well-rounded groom, with more skills.
Clipping, rugging.
Lunging and work-riding experience.
Loading horses in trailer.
Possibly handling young horses and work in rescuing horses.
- Do you need accommodation?
Would be good to have.
- Do you have any special requirements for any animals you wish to bring with you?
No
- Do you have any ongoing commitments?
No
- Do you have any holidays booked that an employer needs to know of?
No
