At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to support dairy and livestock operations on a busy farm.
- Company: A supportive university with a focus on inclusivity and community.
- Benefits: Enjoy 27 days holiday, employee support services, and discounts.
- Other info: Flexible hours with opportunities for overtime and career progression.
- Why this job: Gain hands-on experience in animal welfare and modern farming techniques.
- Qualifications: Confidence with livestock and ability to operate machinery required.
The predicted salary is between 26908 - 28890 £ per year.
Salary: £26,908 to £28,890 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience.
Area: Estates Farm Dairy (CDSI)
Location: Sutton Bonington
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Reference: NHE
This role is an opportunity for an early career applicant or someone with experience who would like to work in a busy farm environment. You will join a young dynamic team and assist primarily in the Dairy Unit (robot milked) but also with the Sheep, Youngstock, Beef and Arable enterprises throughout the year. The role is a mixture of machinery based work and hands-on animal welfare. The role requires confidence with livestock, ability to operate modern machinery, team working skills and an ability to follow farm procedures.
What’s In It For You:
- Ongoing support to develop your skills and gain industry recognised qualifications to further your career ambitions that may lead to different career paths and career progression.
- An excellent holiday allowance of 27 days (pro rata if applicable), plus additional university closure days and bank holidays.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling Service - 24/7 support.
- Supplier discounts, travel, and reward schemes.
- Staff Networks, events and activities and state of the art sports facilities.
- A permanent post with all the tools you need to do a great job.
- Uniform provided.
This post will work a minimum of 36.25 hours per week plus regular overtime paid at x 1.5 rate for any hours worked over 36.25 per week and at x 2 rate for bank holidays and university closure days. Hours worked by rota averaging 5 days out of 7 including early mornings, some evenings and regular weekends.
Further Details:
Our university is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs - indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) employer. Increasing the diversity of our community is extremely important to us and we are committed to the aims of Disability Confident Scheme. We are the first university to have achieved Athena Swan Gold Award.
To help you succeed, we published Candidate Guidance to provide support on the application and interview process. Discover our benefits, visit Your Benefits website.
We welcome applications from UK, Europe and worldwide and aim to make your move to the UK as smooth as possible. This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have the right to work in the UK.
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