Ezme Lintern

• Backing and breaking in young horses.
• Cleaning the yard and stables.
• Travelling horses to the races and leading up at the racecourses.
• Schooling young horses over jumps.
• Exercising horses on the gallops.
• Checking horses over for injuries and reporting to the trainer about any heat, swelling or lameness.
• Grooming horses to a high standard.
• Reporting back to trainer about horse’s performance and fitness.

Assistant trainer

• Exercising horses, assessing new arrivals and arranging fitness and nutrition plans for each individual horse.
• Keeping logs for vaccinations, foaling due dates, races and more.
• Organising vet, farrier, physio and dentist visits.
• Transporting horses to and from races, owners and stud yards.
• Liaising with owners and informing them of their horse’s progress and ability and discussing next steps for their career.
• Farm maintenance – driving tractors and mini diggers, topping fields and digging drainage ditches etc.
• Building stables and field shelters.
• Trimming hooves
• Performing veterinary care and administering medication under veterinary guidance.
• Being on foal watch 24/7 and assisting in the birth when intervention was needed.
• Keeping track of 32 horses and making sure I knew them all as individuals so I would be able to spot illness or injury early to enact early intervention and stop them from worsening.
• Performing risk assessments.
• Maintaining bio security.
• Guiding the public round the premises, answering any questions and encouraging inquisitiveness.
• Handling stallions while serving mares.
• Providing care (mucking out, feeding, checking feet etc) for the other livestock on the farm (goats, chickens, pigs and geese).
• Maintaining a high standard of welfare for all livestock.
• Routinely providing new enrichment for livestock (feed toys, itching posts, mineral licks etc).
• Performing pest control to minimise the spread of disease.

Ground worker

• Erecting fencing for domestic properties.
• Driving work vehicles and picking other workers up to travel to job sites.
• Building shed frames at the workshop, loading onto vans to transport to job sites and then erecting the shed and finishing off the building, ensuring high quality workmanship throughout.
• Dismantling buildings and removing rubble and waste materials.
• Using power tools.
• Safely lifting heavy concrete posts and gravel boards

• Carrying out daily vehicle inspections of vans and fork lift trucks.
• Loading and unloading lorries with a fork lift.
• Making sure delivery loads were to vehicle payload restrictions, stacked and secured safely in accordance with VOSA rules.
• Serving customers and dealing with customer complaints and queries.
• Organising delivery routes for maximum efficiency and to meet deadlines.
• Delivering goods to the public and commercial customers.

• Preparing young horses for their ridden career by desensitising, ground working and making sure every interaction is calm and positive.
• Performing daily maintenance tasks ie mucking out, cleaning drinking and feeding troughs, field maintenance and carrying out repairs to barns and fencing.
• Assessing animals individual needs and implementing necessary changes to meet those needs (dietary, emotional and physical)
• Checking animals for lameness, illness or injury and documenting videos/notes to be passed onto a senior or to the vet/dentist/farrier.
• Administering medication and medical care under veterinary instruction.
• Assisting with veterinary visits, facilitating a smooth operation during examinations and treatments.
• Conducting regular equipment checks and cleaning.
• Riding/exercising horses and keeping track of performance, fitness and general wellbeing.
• Assessing risk constantly when working with animals and equipment to keep myself, others and livestock safe at all times.
• Keeping track of herd dynamics to reduce injury risk and implementing any changes for the best compatibility.
• Making sure there isn’t cross contamination when dealing with illness or medication and following bio-security measures.

• Deep cleaning domestic and commercial properties to a high standard.
• Working to time constraints efficiently while never sacrificing quality.
• Talking with customers to improve their overall experience and find out what they want from each individual visit.
• Keeping check of cleaning supplies and restocking when needed.
• Taking time to talk to elderly clients who may be lonely and offering help where they may need it outside of cleaning, for example: fixing their walking aid and helping them book appointments.
• Reporting back to the business owner to ensure smooth operation.