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Maintenance & Livestock Officer

St Werburghs City Farm
Bristol, West England

Posted: 15 Jun 2026

Deadline: 13 Jul 2026

Compensation: £26,197 per annum (pro rata)

Living Wage employer

Paid Part-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

We’re looking for someone with strong practical skills who wants to make a real and lasting difference to people’s lives whilst ensuring that the Farm site and our livestock are at the heart of our work. As the Farm Maintenance and Livestock Officer, you will play an important role in the day-to-day operation of the Farm site, ensuring our facilities are clean, safe and welcoming for beneficiaries and the wider community to access. This includes the following key work areas:

• Support the Sites Operational Manager to maintain and improve the Farms sites, buildings and infrastructure, often working independently to carry out repairs and develop infrastructure across our varied sites and spaces.
• With guidance from the Sites Operational Manager you will lead groups of volunteers to carry out maintenance, carpentry or other practical projects as part of team building days.
• Undertake routine and reactive animal care checks; coordinate the ordering of feed, bedding and other resources as necessary, and support the Livestock Manager with planned animal movements, including transporting animals to the abattoir and arranging the sale of meat.
• Being the lead staff member on site responsible for our animals on particular days, undertaking routine husbandry tasks, supporting breeding programmes and ensuring that we always uphold the highest standards of animal welfare.
• On Tuesdays during term-time you will work with the Child and Youth team to support their animal care session for teenagers. Supporting their lead officer to plan and deliver the Animal Care Alternative Learning Provision - supporting young people to learn about animal care and a range of practical maintenance skills.
• You will work with project managers and other Farm officers to design farm-based activities that increase engagement and practical learning opportunities for project beneficiaries. This includes: considering the needs of people of mixed ages and abilities in activities, developing risk assessments, assisting with sessions, preparing resources and monitoring impact.
• You will work alongside the sites and livestock team to ensure our sites are safe and our health and safety policies and procedures are up to date.
• This is a four day per week (28 hour) role which will ideally involve one weekend day per month and must include Tuesdays.

The full descripton for the role can be found here: https://swcityfarm.co.uk/work-with-us/

Application information

Go to https://swcityfarm.co.uk/work-with-us/ and complete the application form and return this to office@swcityfarm.co.uk by13th July 2026 at 10am. 

For any queries about the role, please contact community@swcityfarm.co.uk

We expect interviews to be held on Tuesday 21st July 2026.

Audio applications are acceptable for the Reason for Applying questions. Other sections must be completed in text (training, experience, references etc).

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