Lead Horse Handler / Volunteer Coordinator

About us

OT OuTdoors is a small business in El Cajon, CA. We are professional, agile and creative.

Our work environment includes:

• Growth opportunities
• Casual work attire
• Lively atmosphere
• Flexible working hours
• Nature engagement
• Therapeutic animal interactions

Dual Role Position: Lead Horse Handler and Volunteer/ Horse Handler Coordinator

Part-time: minimum of 3 weekdays a week, each shift is approximately 6 hours. 1-2 additional hours a week of volunteer coordination can be done at home.

EMAIL: carrie@otoutdoors or call (858) 945-3243

OT OuTdoors is seeking to hire an active, friendly, self-driven staff member who is interested in a long-term (2 years minimum) part-time position working with horses, patients, and occupational therapists who utilize the horse as one of their many treatment tools (we also use our sensory-motor gym, pool and more). We are a small private ranch and unique medical facility in El Cajon, CA approximately 20 minutes from downtown San Diego. Send your resume and contact information to carrie@otoutdoors.com please include your Monday- Friday work availability. See the detailed job description below. Visit our website at to learn more about us. If you do not have a resume, you can fill out the application on our forms page titled “”

Horse Handler

· Horse experience preferred.

· Work intimately with 3 well-trained and behaved, healthy horses.

· Interact, under therapist supervision, with patients ages 2-35, the majority are children, with a variety of special needs spanning from minor coordination and sensory processing disorders to more complex coordination, sensory processing and cognitive disorders.

· Prepare the horse for the therapy session by grooming, tacking, and warming up with leading, lunging or long lining (typically one horse is utilized per hour).

· Lead horse during portion of therapy session via in-hand leading and long lining.

· Take direction from the therapist regarding the precise horse movement required during the treatment session.

· Collaborate with therapist in selecting horse equipment and tack as it pertains to the patient.

· Collaborate with the therapist in selecting patient equipment as it pertains to proper fit on the horse.

· Advise the therapist of any safety concerns and make final horse safety and behavior decisions.

· Evaluate and desensitize the horse to new therapy equipment, props and activities incorporated into treatment sessions.

· Participate in training the horses in providing medical quality movement needed for therapy sessions.

· Minor daily facility maintenance (mucking pens and arena, keeping tack shed and yard clean and tidy).

· Grading arena once a week.

· Feeding horses hay and grain.

Volunteer and Horse Handler Coordinator

Schedule

· Schedule volunteers and HH and communicate re-schedule.

· Enter confirmed schedule into Google Calendar.

· Manage, confirm, and enter shift coverage on calendar.

· Schedule potential new hire shadows in coordination with owner.

· Schedule new hire training

Train new volunteers and HH staff

Manage

· Delegate special tasks in collaboration with owner.

· Create, prep for and manage no horse day projects assignments in collaboration with therapist.

· Eventually interview and hire volunteers and HH in conjunction with owner.

Job Types: Part-time, Internship

Pay: $15.00 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 18 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Schedule:

• 4 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to Relocate:

• El Cajon, CA 92020: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person