Animal Keeper Summer Volunteer
The Living Rainforest
South East Closing date for applications is: 4th Jun 2026| Contact: | Robyn Daniels ([email protected]) |
| Sector: | Animal Care |
| Type: | Volunteer |
| Contract type: | Full-time |
| Salary: | N/A |
The Living Rainforest is inviting applications to work as a summer volunteer with our Animal Department to gain some much-valued experience within an zoological environment. We are pleased to be able to offer a placement from June 2026 running until September 2026, although we have some flexibility with dates.
The Trust for Sustainable Living is a registered charity based near Newbury, Berkshire. At our visitor centre, The Living Rainforest, the animal collection is contained within three tropical glasshouses and consists of more than 60 species. These include callitrichids, toucan and turacos, snakes, chelonia, stingrays, dendrobatids, and invertebrates and more.
The role:
- The primary role of the intern will be to learn the daily husbandry and routines of our animal department. This includes feeding animals, maintaining enclosures, daily record keeping, diet preparation and animal health checks.
- You will also learn how to train and supervise our existing volunteers and participate in training new volunteers and work experience students.
- You will also receive training and participate in keeper experiences.
- You will have the opportunity to gain knowledge of the different aspects of the department such as veterinary treatment, enclosure design and record keeping.
Terms:
- This is a voluntary summer volunteer placement for a registered charity, to begin in June 2026.
- This is an unpaid placement, however, we can assist with reasonable travel expenses.
- Our hours are 8.30 am to 5pm. Five days a week on a rota basis. This can include weekends and bank holidays.
- It is necessary that you have your own form of transport to get to and from The Living Rainforest each day as public transport is infrequent in this area
Apply for this job:
To apply, please provide a CV and cover letter to [email protected] so we can learn a little more about you.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
