Saturday, January 9, 2021

Animal Keeper - Sea Lions

Animal Keeper - Sea Lions

Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park

The Company

Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park was opened to the public in 1970 and was, at the time, one of Britain’s first safari parks. With over 400,000 visitors a year, we are now one of the most popular visitor attractions in Scotland. The park has a strong focus on conservation, education and the local community. We also run a successful fundraising program for conservation “link to the wild”.

As part of our ongoing development program, we have completely refurbished our sea lion facilities this year and we hope to have these open fully in the Autumn of 2021.

We are currently looking for an experienced and confident sea lion trainer to join our keeper team working predominately with our Californian sea lions. This position is offered on a full time, permanent basis. Relocation assistance is available to the right candidate.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity working as part of a larger keeper team with primary responsibility for the management, welfare and training of our 3 Californian Sea Lions. You will also be required to deliver our daily programme of sea lion presentations.

Ensuring the safety of our visitors, staff and animals at all times are of key importance and ensuring that health & safety protocols are followed at all times.

Application Requirements

Sound knowledge (2 years+ experience) of working with sea lions and need to be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of conditioning training methods, health checks, and general sea lion husbandry.

Strong work ethic and good communication skills.

Hold a full driving licence

An animal-based qualification

Email recruitment@blairdrummond.com with a short covering letter and CV. Please use ‘Animal Keeper - Sea Lions’ in the subject line of your email so that your application can be identified.

Closing date for applications is: 15th Feb 2021

FYI

This vacancy has been posted out to the many thousands who read the popular Zoo Jobs Blog Page and then on to the 129,400 plus followers of the ZooNews Digest Facebook Page. It is then immediately forwarded on to Twitter and then to Pinterest and Linkedin (8,000+ connections). Many vacancies are shared to individuals and groups. In short your vacancy will have the potential of reaching something in the region of some 80,000 plus people within 24 hours. Most of these people are working in a zoo environment, Keepers, Curators, Vets, Zoo Directors, Trainers, Aquarists and more.

ZooNews Digest has subscribers in over 1200 Zoos in 150+ countries. Zoo professionals are International.

The number of people who will actually read the posted vacancy will actually be considerably less. Usually this will be between two hundred and three thousand. This will depend on the type of post, the time of the year and where it is located…of course not all will apply. I wish you the very best of luck in finding the right candidate for your post.

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