Voluntary care manager(s)
JERSEY HEDGEHOG PRESERVATION GROUP
VOLUNTARY CARE MANAGER(S)
We are looking for one or two volunteers who would like to take over the day to day running of our rescue centre in Waterworks Valley. You will be responsible for all the hedgehogs in our care from their admission to release, for organising and supervising our volunteer care team and dealing with members of public when they phone in about a hedgehog or come in person to drop one off or collect one for release. Full training will be given by the current care manager who will shadow you for as long as you feel is necessary. At busy times of year we will need full time cover, but in quieter times you may only be needed for mornings. This is why we think that two people may prefer to share the responsibility. Hours would be flexible by arrangement.
On admission, hedgehogs are housed in a warm room for which you would be responsible, they are then moved to a cold room, where the other volunteers clean out and feed them and lastly they are moved to outside enclosures where the other volunteers will feed and clean them out, but you would be responsible for marking and weighing them and deciding on releases, contacting the finder if they have expressed the wish to release the hedgehog in their garden or finding a suitable alternative release site if this is not the case.
You will be trained to identify parasites and how to treat them, you will liaise with New Era vets on other treatments and be trained how to inject medication. You will encounter some badly injured and very sick hedgehogs which are taken straight to New Era vets for emergency treatment or to be put to sleep. You will also be shown how to hand rear abandoned hoglets. You would be expected to attend a one day basic hedgehog first aid course at Vale Wildlife Hospital in Tewkesbury, we would cover your course fees and travel expenses.
If you are interested in the above role and would like to join us for a trial session, please contact Dru on 01534 734340 or jerseyhedgehogs@hotmail.co.uk
