Job Opportunities
Cambridgeshire's Wildlife Breeding Centre
Please find below a list of current vacancies at Linton Zoo.
All applicants must be age 16 or over.
For work experience please click here
Experienced Bird keeper.
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Full time position available, which will include most weekends, applicant must be able to work during school holidays and at all bank holidays.
We need an experienced bird keeper to join our team and help care for a range of rare and exotic birds including hornbills, toucans, parrots, birds of prey, storks, cranes, waders etc. The applicant must have a great passion for all bird species and have some previous experience of their care and husbandry. An animal care qualification is essential. Applicant will need to be able to assist with educational keeper talks so bird flying skills will be beneficial.
Keeper.
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Full time position available, which will include most weekends, applicant must be able to work during school holidays and at all bank holidays.
We need an experienced keeper to join our team. This position will still be very 'hands on', looking after a wide range of zoo animals. An animal care qualification is essential. This position will lean more towards the care and maintenance of our tortoises, other reptiles and development of our invertebrate section. Applicant will need to be able to assist with educational keeper talks and also help out with our Outreach programme, visiting local schools. A full clean driving licence is essential. Experience of the long term care and maintenance of chelonians and bird flying skills will be beneficial.
Coffee shop and retail supervisor
Full time and part time/job share positions available , which will include some weekends, applicant must be able to work during school holidays and at all bank holidays.
A food hygiene certificate is beneficial for this position, as is previous experience working in a similar environment. This role involves direct customer interaction so good customer skills and a polite manner are essential. Applicants must be 16 years plus.
Coffee shop / retail assistant
Full time and part time/job share positions available , which will include some weekends, applicant must be able to work during school holidays and at all bank holidays.
This role involves direct customer interaction so good customer skills and a polite manner are essential. Applicants must be 16 years plus.
Administrator / admissions clerk
This is a part time vacancy with flexible working days, which will include some weekends, school holidays and all bank holidays.
Responsible for taking zoo admissions and being the first point of contact for all visitors to the zoo. Experience working with money is preferable and the ability to work well under pressure is essential. Some cash handling may also be required. Your role will include the processing of bookings for birthday parties, keeper experiences, schools and groups and the administration of season tickets. The department is also the point of contact for all customer enquiries. You will need to be a bubbly, outgoing person with good computer and customer skills and a polite telephone manner.
For more information or an application form for any of the above vacancies please call Kim Simmons on 01223 891308
Work Experience and volunteering with animals.
We are currently fully booked until the end of August 2010. If you are happy to go onto a waiting list please download an application form, return it to us and we will contact you should a vacancy arise, please note this could be at very short notice.
We do run a work experience placement scheme here at the zoo, however we are unable to take on anyone under the age of 16, even for voluntary work.
All work experience placement applicants must be able to commit to a minimum of a 6 week*, full time block (5 days a week, which may include weekends and Bank Holidays), after this initial training period it may be possible to change to 1 or more days a week if required.(* In some exceptional cases we can reduce the six week block to four weeks followed by one or two day a week to make a minimum work experience of 30 days.)
Work experience at Linton Zoo is a full zoo keeper experience, hands on, hard work and sometimes mucky! It is broken into three, two week training sessions. Initially students train in the area of basic animal husbandry including; cleaning skills, food preparation, health and safety etc. The second set of two weeks will involve domestic animal care and finally the third set of two weeks will use all of the skills learnt in the first month to apply to some exotic animal care. Students may help keepers with the care of animals such as lemurs, wallabies, reptiles, insects and in some cases (depending on previous experience and ability) students may progress to assist with care of larger animals including zebra and tapir.
Most of our employed keeper team is recruited from former work experience keepers. We hope that the work experience builds good foundations for a future career in the field of animal care whether that be zoo keeping, veterinary or conservation field work.
This is a very intense training programme and this will require a lot of commitment from you. For those successfully completing an interview, there is a charge of £100 per application to secure a place, this is strictly non-returnable (even if you are unable to attend your booked work experience).
Work experience placements are much sought after so we cannot guarantee a place, but if you feel you are able to make this commitment and you would like to apply then please download the application form below and return a hard copy to us in the post to the address below, along with a statement as to why you would like to do work experience with us. It would also be helpful to know if you have any particular start dates in mind. Click here to download an application form
Application forms should be returned to Kim Simmons, Linton Zoo, Hadstock Road, Linton, Cambridgeshire, CB21 4NT
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