Job vacancies at Wildwood
Seasonal Retail / Cafe Assistants
Wildwood is looking forward to a busy Summer season and require reliable, responsible people to help serve our customers in our shop and café.
We are looking for outgoing personalities who are great with people and able to work unsupervised or as part of a team. Shop or café experience would be preferable but not essential. You will also need a good head for heights to be able to man Wildwood's amazing 27ft tall Drop Slide!
Duties will include (some Shop, some Café, some both):
- Serving customers
- Till use
- Kitchen work
- Housekeeping
- Litter picking
- Promoting Wildwood's membership scheme to visitors
- Making and serving great cappuccinos, as well as other food and drink
- Manning Wildwood's 27ft tall Drop Slide
Part time hours are available and vary according to business needs.
Zero hour contract
National minimum wage
Applicants will be required to start as soon as possible.
Please click here to visit our jobs page for full details and how to apply.
Wildwood Ranger
Wildwood is looking for a practical, hands-on ranger to work around our wildlife park and ancient woodland. The main focus of this post is to carry out regular maintenance of the park buildings and grounds, including the playground, paths, car park and toilets. Specific exhibit maintenance tasks will also be carried out, working closely with the keeper team.
Duties will include:
- Fixing broken toilets
- Animal enclosure construction and maintenance
- Brush cutting and landscaping
- Fencing & safety barrier construction
- Pathway construction & repair
- Waste minimisation & litter picking around the park
- Groundworks and building
- Rainwater collection & distribution system
- Ensuring that the toilets, play equipment and safety barriers are in excellent working order
- Carrying out landscaping and gardening to ensure our woodland looks in good condition for our visitors
- Ensuring that the park is free from safety hazards for visitors or staff
- Erecting and replacing signage
- Managing visitor parking
- Assisting visitors in the park as required
Person specification
Wildwood needs a 'hands on' person with practical experience of forestry, carpentry, brick laying, plumbing, ground work and metal work. You must be able to carry out these tasks independently.
Your role demands excellent people skills so you can enthuse young helpers to get the best out of their time helping us at Wildwood. The ability to plan and oversee their work to ensure quality and safety will also be necessary.
Skills and experience:
- Knowledge of and a love of British Wildlife.
- Recognised qualifications in one or more of the following:
- Forestry
- Carpentry
- Plumbing
- Electricity
- Building
Closing date: 29th June
Animal Keeper
Wildwood requires an experienced animal keeper to look after our unique collection of British wildlife and assist in our conservation projects. This will encompass food preparation, feeding and cleaning.
You will be responsible for the welfare and wellbeing of our animals, able to monitor health issues and to improve their enclosures through behavioural enrichment. You will take instruction from the Senior Keepers working to priorities to achieve the best animal welfare within the resources we have.
Duties will include:
- Looking after Wildwood's animal collection
- Exhibit design and maintenance
- Ensuring that Wildwood meets and exceeds zoo legislation
- Ensuring that Wildwood meets and exceeds customer expectations
- Communicating with other departments at the park
- Maintaining time sheets and other records
- Cost control including sourcing donations of animal feeds
- Customer care & public animal talks
- Conservation Projects
Person specification:
The post-holder will be mature in outlook, confident, hard-working and practical. Common sense and the ability to concentrate and prioritise on the essentials of a task will be key elements of your personality. You will need to be prepared to work through peak times in what is a seasonal business.
A good level of experience and competence of working with captive animals and their husbandry, specifically large carnivores is essential.
You must be able to demonstrate recent practical experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Experience of captive breeding and animal care
- Experience of practical building work and construction
- Experience in giving public talks & demonstrations
- Experience of conservation reintroduction projects
- Experience of health and safety systems
- Familiarity with working in a zoological collection
Closing date: 29th June
Herne Common
Herne Bay
Kent
CT6 7LQ
