Future Requirements

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

I would like to be full time employed, i am very reliable, enthusiatic, hard working. i would either like to manage a livery/competion yard and orgnaise a team of staff or work soley for a family on their estate.

• Do you need accommodation?

potentially

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

1 polo horse and 1 children pony

2 dogs whippets

• Do you have any ongoing commitments?

2 children , one in boarding school and one in year 1

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

No

Experience with Horses

Outline your experience with horses here/the scope of your freelance services. If you’re looking for a non-equine or non- yard-based job please use this space to describe your experience skills/abilities and adapt the questions to suit your line of work.

• Developed the livery yard business including advertising and interviewing potential liveries.
• Sales and upselling.
• Responsible for all Purchasing and selling of all horses and work vehicles on the estate.
• Responsible for the daily care and welfare of multiple horses, ensuring high standards of safety and cleanliness
• Managed structured daily routines, feeding schedules, exercise, and stable maintenance
• Communicated regularly with horse owners, vets, and farriers to coordinate care and resolve issues
• Worked independently with minimal supervision, making decisions to maintain smooth daily operations
• Maintained equipment, monitored supplies, and reported maintenance or safety concerns
• Live on-site to provide security around the estate.
• Managing the seasonal maintenance of the land including, harrowing and rolling.
• Transporting horses professionally with a clean CPC certificate
• Implemented efficient yard operations by managing staff and resources effectively.
• Responsible for the purchasing of yard lorries, managing MOT’s and general upkeep.
• Managed close relationships with local vets and farriers.
• Operated lifting equipment safely for transport and storage of stock.
• Managed livery invoices and setting up correct Re Charges.
• Stock Taking and Inventory.
• Aquiring and securing suitible horses for the family and Turn out to very high standards.
• Working long hours to go above and beyond to complete the daily tasks on a yard.

 

Key Skills

What are you particularly good at? For example: working alone, working with others, clipping, plaiting, turning out for shows, handling stallions, handling/riding young horses, non-equine skills etc

• Excellent communication skills
• Good Customer Service
• Extremely Trustworthy and discreet
• Strong negotiation and organisational skills
• Working independently and using initiative
• Reliability and strong work ethic
• Problem-solving in high-pressure situations
• Quick learner and enthusiastic
• Up to date First Aid certification
• Truck driving license
• Health and safety compliance

Hunt service ; Have looked after the hunt masters of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt for 26 years

:Lorry hgv licence

:Taco graph/cpc

:First aid course

:Fencing / hedge cutting certificates

:Quad bike certificates

:Plaiting / clipping

:Schooling / jumping, handing younge horses

:Managing a yard , employing staffE

:Extremely hard working , reliable . Never taken a sick day , good sense of worth ethnic ,

Strengths and Weaknesses

• What do you most enjoy about working with horses?

I Have worked with horses since i left School, its my passion. I love grooming, riding, day to day care of Horse, its a very rewarding life to be able to have a job which you enjoy waking up every morning to do.

Being around them, seeing them progress through training. Competing

• Is there anything you’d like to improve?

Always room for improvement

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

I can provide excellent references from my last employers whom i have been employed with for the last 27 years and im only looking for a new job due to a bereaverment in the family.