Part-time Farm Hand
Do you love animals and keeping them clean, healthy and happy? Do you take pride in your work and love working outdoors?
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, keen to learn and hard-working Farm Hand to join us part-time at JADE Alpaca Ranch. The position will be largely self-directed covering a set of key tasks on a regular basis to manage our menagerie of animals on the smallholding (including alpacas, chickens, rabbits, rhea, peafowl, cats).
About JADE Alpaca Ranch
Jacquie Edwards and Anthony D’Souza (swap our initials around a bit and you’ll see where the JADE comes from) had a dream to create JADE Alpaca Ranch because of their passion for sustainability and fuzzy animals.
We are located on 27 acres just outside Stanford in the Vale on the outskirts of Baulking Village and focus on caring for our animals in a sustainable and as natural an environment as possible in order to breed top quality white alpacas and provide eggs, fleece and other farming products through our website and farm shop.
Our core values
Fun family atmosphere - treating everyone like family and having fun
Unbeatable quality - always striving for excellence and quality in everything we do
Zen - creating a harmonious, natural environment with healthy animals ad relaxed humans
Zero emissions - we focus on caring for the environment and giving back more than we take
About Your Role
As a farm hand you will carry out regular animal husbandry and other practical work across the small-holding including maintenance and upkeep of the farm equipment and buildings.
This part-time position will include:
Your Skills and Experience
Timing & Pay
We expect this to start at 1 day per week (or 2 half-days). With the potential to move to 2 days per week as we grow. One day = 8 hours.
We classify this role as a Grade 2 Agricultural Worker.
Our ideal situation would be with a farm hand that is self-employed and will invoice us as a contractor. For a self employed contractor the pay would be £10 per hour.
If you would prefer to be PAYE and we find you to be the right fit then the pay will be in line with national minimum wage to start at £7.31 per hour.
How to apply
Please fill in the form below and let us know how your passions and values align with ours.
About JADE Alpaca Ranch
Jacquie Edwards and Anthony D’Souza (swap our initials around a bit and you’ll see where the JADE comes from) had a dream to create JADE Alpaca Ranch because of their passion for sustainability and fuzzy animals.
We are located on 27 acres just outside Stanford in the Vale on the outskirts of Baulking Village and focus on caring for our animals in a sustainable and as natural an environment as possible in order to breed top quality white alpacas and provide eggs, fleece and other farming products through our website and farm shop.
Our core values
Fun family atmosphere - treating everyone like family and having fun
Unbeatable quality - always striving for excellence and quality in everything we do
Zen - creating a harmonious, natural environment with healthy animals ad relaxed humans
Zero emissions - we focus on caring for the environment and giving back more than we take
About Your Role
As a farm hand you will carry out regular animal husbandry and other practical work across the small-holding including maintenance and upkeep of the farm equipment and buildings.
This part-time position will include:
- Weekly Cleaning / Mucking Out
- Rabbit Pens
- Chicken Coops
- Barn
- Alpaca Fields
- Weekly cleaning out of all waterers
- Assistance with rotating the stock
- Assistance with grooming, shearing and nail trimming of all animals
- Mainly the angora rabbits and alpacas
- Other miscellaneous jobs - there is always something to do!
Your Skills and Experience
- Livestock experience (minimum of 1 year)
- Passion for animals
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn
- Self-motivated, team player
- Willingness and commitment to hard, physical work in all weather conditions
- Excellent communication skills
- Dedication, reliability and a great work ethic
- Attention to detail in all aspects of your work
- Ability to make suggestions for improvements
- Valid Driver's License
- Able to handle animals with confidence and patience
- Problem-solving skills
- Work safely at all times, particularly around farm equipment and animals
- The ability to use one’s own initiative
- Flexibility, physical strength and stamina
- Dedication to furthering the successful development of the farming environment
- Bonus:
- You are able to fix and repair the general bits and pieces that need attention throughout your role.
Timing & Pay
We expect this to start at 1 day per week (or 2 half-days). With the potential to move to 2 days per week as we grow. One day = 8 hours.
We classify this role as a Grade 2 Agricultural Worker.
Our ideal situation would be with a farm hand that is self-employed and will invoice us as a contractor. For a self employed contractor the pay would be £10 per hour.
If you would prefer to be PAYE and we find you to be the right fit then the pay will be in line with national minimum wage to start at £7.31 per hour.
How to apply
Please fill in the form below and let us know how your passions and values align with ours.
