Get paid to look after monkeys - and you'll even get free tickets to the zoo
Ever fancied working at with animals?
Get paid to look after primates (Image: Twycross Zoo)
Have you ever fancied working at with animals? Are monkeys your passion? Well this could be the perfect opportunity to work with animals you love.
Twycross Zoo is looking to employ a primates animal keeper in a very hands on role.
The successful candidate will play a key role in caring for the animals in the primate section of the Leicestershire zoo, which is 13 miles from Burton.
They will work with a range of mammals from gibbons to marmosets on a permanent basis, making sure they are well cared for.
Duties will include preparing and distributing food and water to animals, assisting with capturing and restraining them when required and learning all about the primates.
The role also requires assisting with maintaining enclosures, food preparation and public viewing areas to a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness.
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Requirements include at least five years experience of animal keeping, along with an appropriate animal related qualification.
"Superb knowledge" of animals is also required, a passion for the zoo's purpose and willingness to be trained as a first aider.
Animal keepers are offered a starting salary of £20,089, as well as free entry to the zoo on days off, discounts in the on-site food and retail outlets, free parking and 31 days of holidays.
The contract will be for 43 hours across five days out of seven, with shifts between 8am and 5pm during the winter, and 8am to 6pm for the remainder of the year.
Anybody interested in applying can do so by visiting the Twycross Zoo website to gain more information and guidance.
More about Twycross Zoo
Set in more than 80 acres, there are around 500 of almost 100 species to see, including many endangered animals and also native species in the zoo's nature reserve.
The zoo was founded in 1963 by pet shop owners Molly Badham and Natalie Evans, after the pair's increasing zoological collection outgrew their three-quarter-acre site in Hints, Staffordshire.
Twycross Zoo is now renowned as a World Primate Centre and has a wide variety of monkeys and apes including the UK's only group of bonobos.
They have breeding groups of many endangered primate species and often have babies and toddlers playing around in our great ape groups, and in many of our monkey groups.
There is also a range of other species at the zoo including giraffes, snow leopards, penguins, meerkats, tapirs, kangaroos, snakes, flamingos and the world's rarest big cat, the Amur leopard.
After travelling more than 700 miles via road and sea from France, the zoo's newest residents, critically endangered Sumatran tigers Jahly and Sialang, arrive safely this summer.
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