Wednesday, March 22, 2017

LONGLEAT - KEEPER (Lakes & Birds)



LONGLEAT - KEEPER (Lakes & Birds)

Longleat Safari & Adventure Park has been one of the UK’s best-loved attractions for over 50 years. As a business we are passionate about providing wondrous and immersive experiences which lead to lifelong memories for the 800,000 guests that visit us every year. Our Lakes & Birds team are looking for confident and enthusiastic individuals to join the team for the 2017 season.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity to Join Longleat Safari Park within Lakes & Birds Team providing daily care of the animals, ensuring excellent levels of guest experience and providing logistical support to the animal team as a whole.
You will ensure the guests' requirements are always met and naturally seek out opportunities to exceed their expectations, ensuring prompt and professional attention.
You will be working with an incredible variety of species including Western Lowland Gorillas, Californian Sea lions, Chilean Flamingos, African White-backed Vultures and our very successful breeding group of Pink-backed Pelicans.

ABOUT YOU

Our ideal candidate will be personable, able to work under their own initiative and will always have a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards work. It is essential you have a full clean  driving licence and experience in working with animals is preferable.

HOURS OF WORK

This is a Zero Hours, Fixed Term contract until January 2018, working hours as required by the busyiness, to include weekends, evenings and bank holidays. Hours will vary from 8.30am until close (times vary throughout the season).

OUR VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS

We expect all of our team to embrace our company values, and display ‘Longleat behaviours’. This post requires flexibility of hours, energy application and passion.

At Longleat, we focus on our People and our Guests, to listen actively, to work as a team, to empower others and to show empathy.  Our values are:

We Engage and Inspire – We focus on engaging and inspiring our guests, delivering unique and lifelong memories
We put People First – We seek to serve others and put their interests first. We treat them with respect, we value their opinions and collaborate to be better together
We Continuously Improve – We embrace change and pursue excellence in everything we do
We act with Integrity – We work in a principled, open and conscientious manner
We take Safety Seriously – Never compromising on a safe and secure environment

When we recruit we place equal emphasis on technical ability and personal attributes to match our brand values.

REWARDING YOU

At Longleat Enterprises Ltd we offer unique benefits such as complementary Longleat Safari Park and Cheddar admission tickets, attractive discounts on annual passes, special nightly rates on group hotels, discounted hotel Spa treatments, life assurance cover, and 29 days paid holiday (pro rata). 

The closing date is 31st March 2017 and accessible via http://jobs.longleat.co.uk/ 




Peter Dickinson
Independent International Zoo Consultant
      

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