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Animal Keeper –
Primates
Based in the heart
of England, Twycross Zoo (TZ) is an award-winning conservation charity and
rapidly growing visitor attraction. We’re committed to supporting global
welfare and conservation efforts in the captive breeding of endangered species
whilst supporting projects from many different countries around the world,
including Ape Action Africa, Lola Ya Bonobo and the FFI Cao Vit Gibbon Project.
In 2014, we launched
our 20-year, £55million Masterplan. Since this time, new habitats which have
opened to the public include Giraffe Savannah and Gibbon Forest. Recently,
we’ve opened a new £3.5 million world-class chimpanzee habitat, Chimpanzee
Eden, and are looking forward to building on this continued growth and success.
Renowned as a specialist primate zoo, we care for a wide variety of monkeys and
apes, and we are the only zoo in the UK to accommodate all four Great Apes.
What will this role
of Animal Keeper entail?
As a Primates Animal
Keeper, you’ll play a key role in caring for the animals in the Primates
section of Twycross Zoo working with everything from Gibbons through to
Marmosets, ensuring that animal keeping is carried out to the Zoo’s required
standards. Your duties will include but not be limited to;
• Preparing
and distributing food and water to animals
• Assisting
with the capture and restraint of animals when required
• Learning
about the animals and reporting any animal health concerns to the Section Head
• Assisting
with maintaining enclosures, food preparation and public viewing areas to a
high standard of hygiene, cleanliness and exhibition
• Motivating
and encouraging colleagues, and assisting with the development of Trainee
Keepers and providing guidance to work experience students and apprentices
• Answering
enquiries from the public in a helpful and polite manner
What will I need to
be considered for this Animal Keeper vacancy?
• At
least 3 years’ experience of animal keeping, along with an appropriate animal
related qualification (or willing to work towards)
• Superb
knowledge of animals and all responsible work practices relevant to zoonotic
diseases
• A
passion for the Zoo’s work and purpose
• Willing
to be trained as a first aider and to be on call as part of the Zoo's first aid
duty rota
• A
flexible approach to duties and working hours
Please note, whilst
Twycross Zoo is an equal opportunities employer, the successful applicant will
need to be physically fit due to the nature and demands of the role.
What will I receive
in return?
As an Animal Keeper
you’ll receive a salary of £20,089 per annum, along with fantastic additional
benefits including 31 days holiday per annum (inclusive of bank holidays),
along with the benefit of a staff membership card, giving you free entry to the
Zoo on your days off and discounts in our retail and food outlets. Free onsite
parking.
Contract: Permanent,
working average of 43 hours over 5 days out of 7 between the hours of 8am to
5pm during the winter months, and 8am to 6pm for the remainder of the year.
More about us:
You’ll be part of an
evolving and progressive organisation, with staff engagement at its very core.
Our team strives to educate and inspire everyone to care about, and therefore
contribute to saving, the other species with which we share our planet.
With our dedicated
and enthusiastic team of colleagues at the heart of everything we do, we aim to
become a recognised “Centre of Excellence” that continues to make a significant
contribution to the welfare and conservation of animals, especially primates,
and remain at the heart of conservation.
Location:
Atherstone, Warwickshire (on the A444, which is easily accessed via the A5 and
the M42 Junction 11).
All applications for
this Animal Keeper vacancy are to be submitted online, and strictly no agency
calls or agency CV submissions.
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