Senior Equestrian Groom & Stable Team Lead

British Grooms Association; Sandhurst; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £30,000

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Kick On Recruitment is seeking a Senior Remount Groom for a high-security equestrian environment in Berkshire (Sandhurst). The role involves leadership of the grooming team, daily horse care, and ensuring exercise, schooling and preparation to required standards.

You will ride, exercise and lunge horses, develop them through mounted and dismounted training, and maintain high welfare and stable management while working within a structured team and security procedures. Overtime may be required.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience working with horses.
• Confidence riding, exercising and schooling horses.
• Experience developing young or inexperienced horses.
• The ability to work confidently with horses both mounted and from the ground.
• High standards of horse welfare and stable management.
• Experience with grooming, clipping and general horse preparation.
• A calm, patient and professional approach to horse handling.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day leadership and support to the grooming team, coordinating workloads and ensuring consistently high standards of horse care, welfare, training and stable management
• Ride, exercise, school and lunge horses as required.
• Develop horses through structured mounted and dismounted training programmes.
• Work with young and developing horses at different stages of their training.
• Undertake grooming, bathing, clipping, trimming and mane and tail pulling.
• Assist with stable management and maintaining high standards across stable areas.
• Prepare feeds/supplements and support their correct management and distribution.
• Present horses for veterinary and farriery inspections.
• Assist with treatments as instructed by veterinary or farriery professionals.
• Prepare horses and documentation for transportation between locations.
• Undertake travelling groom duties where required.
• Assist with tacking up horses for exercise and formal operations.
• Apply appropriate rugs and bandages.
• Provide regular updates on training progress and report any concerns.
• Maintain accurate digital records and update relevant management information systems.
• Liaise and coordinate effectively with other equestrian professionals.
• Participate in emergency drills and maintain familiarity with emergency procedures.
• Provide additional support during periods of absence, increased activity and major horse movements.
• Work essential overtime where requested and formally approved.

Skills

Riding

Schooling

Bandaging

Plaiting

Clipping

Trim/Pulling

Job description

Kick On Recruitment is seeking a Senior Remount Groom for a high-security equestrian environment in Berkshire (Sandhurst). The role involves leadership of the grooming team, daily horse care, and ensuring exercise, schooling and preparation to required standards.

You will ride, exercise and lunge horses, develop them through mounted and dismounted training, and maintain high welfare and stable management while working within a structured team and security procedures. Overtime may be required.