Vet Tech/Barn Manager
Whimsy Brook Farm, Ltd, Redding, Connecticut, 06896, USA- Type
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Work Type
- Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Optional
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 308596
- Status
- Looking
- Posted
- 9/2/2019
- Updated
- 9/2/2019
- Expires
- in 1 month
- Views
- 260
Full Time Vet Tech/Barn Manager for MODERN well established, holistically oriented, veterinarian owned, hunt/dressage/western pleasure/US Pony Club Center. NO mud, NO wheelbarrows with possibility to live on premises.
We are engaged in training, boarding, and providing horse management and private/semi-private mounted riding lessons to children and adults.
The Vet/Tech/Barn Manager will participate with the rest of the crew in the general care of horses including stall cleaning (no wheelbarrows and only 12 stalls), feeding, watering, turning out, blanketing and un-blanketing, grooming, leg wrapping, tacking up, un-tacking, and cleaning tack. He/She will also perform oral, iv, and im, medications, first aid, PEMF and Class IV Laser.
He/She will also help manage staff, do detailed medical record-keeping, transport horses, hack and lunge school horses, arrange farrier visits, and be able to teach horse management to students.
The position requires a detail-oriented, organized, cheery team worker, who is willing to follow established protocols and able to give constructive feedback to supervisees, including interns, in a positive fashion.
Requirements
Must be experienced, have excellent people/communication skills, capable of people and time management, physically fit, very attentive to detail and a team player.
Must be willing to work one and/or both days of the weekend as needed in the context of a 5 day work week.
Required Key Skills
- Riding
- Driving license
- Drive Horsebox
- First-Aid
- Equine First-Aid
- Schooling
- Lunging
- Bandaging
- Clipping
- Teaching
- Trim/Pull
- Exercising
- People Skills
- Long Reining
Required Expertise
- Dressage
- Working with children
- Flatwork
- Hunter Seat
Accommodation
Garden cottage, 600 square feet at 1/2 market rate = $800.00. Suitable for a couple. Full kitchen with washer/dryer, gas fireplace, hardwired generator, walk-out deck, living room, bedroom, bath, attic storage.
Job Benefits
Workers Comp, SS/Medicare, possible board for one horse and/or riding lessons, two week paid vacation after one year, continuing ed.
- Employer No
- 104459
- Name
- Whimsy Brook Farm, Ltd
- Website
- http://www.whimsybrookfarm.com
- Location
- Redding, Connecticut, USA
- Facility Type
We are a CT State Horse Farm of Environmental excellence with the following pristine facilities - 2 barns with 12 insulated rubber-matted stalls, Staff and Boarder's tack rooms, inside and outside wash stalls, 10 sand/ 4 double fenced pasture turnout areas, covered lunging arena with enclosed viewing area, 70 x 160 rubber covered/ lighted outdoor arena with enclosed viewing area, hot walker, mini medical paddocks, run-in sheds w. heated stock tanks, compost facility, mini trail, picnic area. In addition to boarding horses, we provide classical seat riding instruction as well as equine wellness services, including Class IV Therapeutic Laser, homeopathy & nutritional approaches, corrective shoeing, & saddle-fitting. And we are also an educational institution & United States Pony Club Riding Center. We serve as an intern site for high school ag-tech programs, Vet tech programs & universities. We also teach anxious students and students with learning disabilities.
