Animal Technician

Animal Technician

Job Type

Support

Job Category

Various

Employment Basis

Sessional (hourly paid)

Location

John Ruskin College - Croydon

Hourly Rate

£14.89 (£12.78/hour + £2.11/hour as payment for annual leave)

Closing Date

20/03/2026

Documents

• Animal Management - Technician JD&PS.pdf
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Animal Management Technician

College location: John Ruskin College

Hourly rate: £14.89 (£12.78/hour + £2.11/hour as payment for annual leave)

Hours: 18.5 hours per week. The days are Sunday, Monday and one other in the week (flexible to accommodate your schedule).

Join our dedicated, brilliant Animal Management team and play a vital role in ensuring the highest standards of animal welfare, practical learning, and day‑to‑day operational support. As an Animal Management Technician, you will help maintain excellent husbandry standards, prepare and organise resources for practical sessions, and ensure our facilities run smoothly and safely.

You’ll work closely with teaching and support staff to create an engaging, well‑managed environment for learners—supporting activities such as animal feeding, handling, enrichment, accommodation maintenance, and routine welfare monitoring. Reliability, attention to detail, and a proactive approach are essential, as you’ll be instrumental in keeping the animal unit safe, compliant, and ready for learning each day.

If you’re passionate about animal care, enjoy hands‑on work, and thrive in a busy educational environment, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful impact on both our animals and our students.

The successful candidate must have:

• A full and clean driving license
• Experience working with a variety of animal species
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of animal care, welfare, and ethical conduct.
• Minimum Maths & English GCSE / Level 2 equivalent

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.