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General Information

  • Age 25 years
  • Date of Birth 1st April 1999
  • Had previous paid employment within the equine industry? Locked
  • Preferred Countries United Kingdom
  • County/State/Region Berkshire, UK, East Sussex, UK, Greater London, UK, Hampshire, UK, Surrey, UK, West Sussex, UK
  • Job Category Part Time
  • Earliest start date 31st October 2024
  • Freelance: Business Name Locked
  • Freelance: Hourly Rate Locked
  • Freelance: are you insured? Locked
  • Available for Christmas Cover? No
  • 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 Groom, Groom/Rider, Part of a Team, Sole Charge, Home Groom, Other, Admin/Office-based
  • Animals to bring to a job Locked
  • Describe the animal/s you HAVE to bring to the job (if applicable) Locked
  • Can drive Car
  • Own car? Car
  • Height 5’9” / 175cm
  • Approximate weight 12st / 76.2kg / 168lb
  • Total years experience with horses Locked
  • Previous paid/work experience Locked
  • Future disciplines Classical, Dressage, Endurance, Eventing, Family Yard, Foaling, Hunting, Livery, P2P, Polo, Pony Club Activities, Racing Flat, Racing NH, Riding for the Disabled (RDA), Rescue, Rehabilitation, Showing, Show Jumping, Stud, Team Chase, Western, Working Hunter
  • Riding Role? Locked
  • Nationality British
  • Languages spoken Locked
  • Qualifications Locked
  • Equine Skills Bandage, Exercise/Hack Out, Long Rein, Lunging, Muck Out, Ride, School, Sole charge, Work with children
  • 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
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  • Current passport? Locked
  • DBS (formerly CRB) or equivalent Locked
  • Smoker? Locked
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Experience with Horses

  • 10+ years of experience as an employed and freelance groom/ exercise rider.
  • Worked as a home groom and sole-charge Sunday groom for international riders (Eventing, Dressage and Para-dressage)
  • Have worked and trained in the UK, Germany and USA.
  • Freelance exercise rider for small private yards and riders including young/green all-rounders and endurance ponies
  • Groomed at competitions (Eventing, Dressage, Endurance and Low-level riding club/grassroots)

Experience as PA/ Admin Assistant

  • 5+ years experience working as a PA.
  • 3+ years experience working as a Admin Assitant and Executive Assistant including for HNW families.
  • Excellent admin skills, including diary management, complex travel booking, drafting correspondence, drafting reports and contracts.
  • Event planning and coordinating – including corporate events, vow renewals, birthday parties and family BBQs.

Experience with Children

  • Residential Tutor at a boarding school
  • Summer Camp Counsellor with Equine specialism
  • Strong Academic background means I can tutor

Experience with other animals

Key Skills

I enjoy working as a sole-charge groom or as part of a larger team. Likewise, I have equally enjoyed my time on large international competition yards to much smaller private yards.

My plaiting and clipping skills are a little rusty, but I enjoy all other competition-associated prep.

I especially enjoy combining my practical grooming skills with my administrative skills, such as organising competition registrations, pre-travel paperwork for horses and ensuring that on complex show days when multiple horses are present all runs smoothly.

I have been an exercise rider for a variety of different horses, including endurance ponies, polo ponies, young horses, dressage horses, eventers, western horses, etc. I have been riding for 23 years with experience training under dressage riders in the UK, event riders in Germany and western riders in the US.

Strengths and Weaknesses

• What do you most enjoy about working with horses?

  • The variety of the day, no two days are the same. I enjoy the challenge of constantly being adaptable and working on my feet.
  • Being outdoors.
  • Working with a variety of people, whether it be the riders, the rest of the home team, the visiting vets and farriers or those you bump into at competitions.
  • Of course, the horses themselves! I have been around horses for over 23 years and any day spent away from them is never as good as a day spent with them.

• Is there anything you’d like to improve?

  • Clipping and plaiting skills

• Why should employers consider you above any other job seeker?

  • My unique combination of corporate/academic background with my highly varied equine background. This means there is not many tasks which can be thrown at me which I will not get on with, or many problems I won’t be able to work out a solution to.
  • I can fill a highly varied role where someone needs me to be a groom, do some secretarial or PA work, look after children, look after dogs/ chickens/ sheep, etc.

 

Requirements

• What would you like to do or gain in your next job?

  • I would like a home groom role.
  • Or
  • I would like a role that involves grooming, alongside admin/ PA work and maybe some additional animal care and childcare.

• Do you need accommodation?

  • If it is within 1 hour of SW London – no.
  • If it is any further afield- yes. I am wiling to drive up to 2.5 hours from SW London if accommodation can be provided for the days I work.

• Do you have any special requirements for any animals you wish to bring with you?

  • Ideally, I would like to bring my two dogs, but this is very negotiable.

• Do you have any ongoing commitments?

  • I can only work Friday – Monday and would ideally not be looking for more than 18 hours of work. This is because I am currently studying a post-graduate degree and have classes Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

• Do you have any holidays booked that an employer needs to know of?

  • No

 

Information

Caroline Carter Recruitment Ltd
The Stables
Fildyke Road
Meppershall
Bedfordshire
SG17 5LU

info@carolinecarterrecruitment.com
0203 006 5730 / 07747 686 118

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