Equine Groom Apprentice for Waterstock Riding Centre
Waterstock Riding Centre
OXFORD (OX33 1JS)
Closes in 20 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 9 May 2025
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Summary
Arabella and her team are looking for 2 apprentices to join her team at Waterstock riding centre. They are predominately a riding school with around 30 horses and ponies. Arabella and her daughter also compete in dressage and show jumping. The ideal candidate will already have good basic equine experience and be happy to work with children.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Equine groom (level 2)
- Hours
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Hours are 40 per week over 5 days to include weekend work and some weekday late finishes.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 June 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
All normal yard duties include:
- Mucking out/ keeping yard tidy
- Turning in and out
- Filling haynets/ water buckets
- Making feeds
- Grooming / picking out feet
- Tacking up / untacking
- Assisting with lessons/ entertaining children on activity days
- Riding available for right candidate(s)
Where you'll work
STABLE COTTAGE
WATERSTOCK HOUSE TC
WATERSTOCK
OXFORD
OX33 1JS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
HADDON TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Equine groom (level 2)
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Your training plan
All training will be provided on site during your paid working hours. Your day-to-day mentoring will be with your employer, and a combination of online and in-person monthly sessions will be held with your Haddon Training Trainer Coach.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Passion for Horse Care
Other requirements
There is accommodation available for under 18's and possibility of livery for own horse, alternatively if applying locally, there is a bus from Oxford which takes you within walking distance of the yard.
About this company
Waterstock Dressage & Riding School (License number 20358) provides excellent riding and horsemanship tuition to children and adults, from beginners to advanced. We are a certified centre with the Pony Club of Great Britain which allows our members to complete the full range of tests and badges available and attend all different types of pony club rallies and instruction days. We also join up with other pony clubs and share summer camps and other activities. Our qualified instructors have years of experience teaching to all levels of pupils across different equine disciplines from dressage to showjumping to eventing. Our facilities are really first class, with a super 20m x 40m indoor arena with mirrors, seated viewing gallery and audio facilities plus a lovely quiet outdoor arena.
After this apprenticeship
- Progression to the Level 3 Senior Groom and or possibility of full-time employment
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HADDON TRAINING LIMITED
Emma Openshaw
emma.openshaw@haddontraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319718.
Apply now
Closes in 20 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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