Equine Groom Apprentice
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Company: Tandridge Priory Riding Centre
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Location: SURREY, RH8 9NE
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Agriculture, environmental and animal care
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Ref: NAS-2000013867
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Application Deadline Date: 31/03/2026
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Start Date: 01/04/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Number of Hours: 8-5. Working days: 4 or 5. Lunch break length: 1 hour. Start Time: 8 a.m. Finish Time: 5:30 p.m.
Brief Description
Busy riding school & livery yard looking for an apprentice that wants to work up the levels as an equine groom and eventually on to becoming a horse riding instructor.
Training to be Provided
Equine Groom Apprentice Level 2.
Merrist Wood College or within the workplace.
Day release - Once a week.
Functional Skills - if required, Level 2 maths and English.
Dedicated Performance Coach.
Future Prospects
Full-time post as a horse riding instructor and groom.
Vacancy Detail
- Turning out, bringing in, mucking out liveries
- Grooming & tacking up horses for lessons
- Meet and greet riding school customers, help them mount and dismount.
- Assist in lessons as a junior instructor, leading ponies in lead rein classes.
- Assisting and leading in RDA sessions
- Schooling and hacking school horses and possibly liveries, depending on riding level, escorting hacks.
Other Information
A DBS check will need to be completed before you become fully employed by us.
Located 5-minute drive from Oxted train station.
The role is incredibly active and all of our fields are on a hill so good physical health is a must. There is also some heavy lifting of hay & straw bales and water buckets.