Abigail Gant

Full care for anywhere between 2 and 5 horses Hay, feed and bedding levels maintaining and ordering Prepping for both national and international level competitions

Full-Time Live in Groom/Mothers Help at Private household (2024-06 – Present)

• Full care for anywhere between 2 and 5 horses
• Hay, feed and bedding levels maintaining and ordering
• Prepping for both national and international level competitions
• Vet and farrier appointment management
• House work within the main house
• Some driving for the family
• Light cooking for the family
• Field maintenance

Full-Time Trainee Equine Veterinary Nurse at Donnington Grove Veterinary Group (2022-07 – 2024-06)

• Holding horses for veterinary procedures
• Performing detailed checks upon inpatients
• Cleaning and sterilizing surgical equipment
• Administering medications
• Preparing horses for surgery
• Rope assisted recovery
• Assisting in knocking down of horses for surgery
• Bandage changes
• Ensuring surgeons have the relevant equipment needed for surgeries available to them
• Attending yard visits with the ambulatory team to assist with gastroscopy and radiography

Full-Time Equine Care Assistant at Donnington Grove Veterinary Group (2021-11 – 2022-07)

• Holding horses for veterinary procedures
• Trotting up and lunging horses for Horse Lameness Investigations
• Ensuring all areas are thoroughly cleaned and re-stocked throughout the day
• Using safe and effective methods of restraint on horses at appropriate times
• Handling horses of various types, ages and workload safely

Full time bar maid and waitress at The Vine at Hannington Country Pub (2018-12 – 2021-11)

• Multiple shifts per week
• Responsibilities include opening and closing
• Serving customers with both lager and bitter as well as wine, soft drinks and hot drinks
• Waiting tables both inside and in the beer garden
• Serving food to tables
• General cleaning duties around the pub

Part time bank Administrative staff in the Microbiology laboratory at Basingstoke hospital (2020-04 – 2020-09)

• Labeling samples and inputting the details onto WinPath (the software we used)
• Ensuring samples are received and booked-in in order receipt
• Training other staff in the process
• Keeping the general working area tidy
• Stock taking to ensure we had plenty of all equipment required for the process
• Prioritising consultant and surgeon requests
• Ensuring all samples were dealt with in the correct manner, this included rejected samples that were labelled incorrectly or the incorrect sample type for the test

Part-Time Yard groom at Plantation Farm Ltd. (2018-10 – 2019-07)

• Completing the daily chores on the yard
• Handling a variety of horses including mares in foal and youngstock
• Maintaining a high level of hygiene with the racing animals

Part-Time Waitress at Pizza Express (2017-02 – 2018-12)

• Part time waiting staff
• Serving tables, ensuring all customers had an enjoyable visit to the restaurant
• Ensuring orders are correct and maintaining a high level of service throughout the visit
• Catering for large parties as well as small walk-in tables
• Serving soft, alcoholic and hot drinks
• Preparing deserts for the tables

Part-Time Sales assistant at Superdrug (2016-07 – 2017-03)

• Weekend staff
• In different aspects of the store, from customer facing roles to restocking shelves
• Encouraging customers to purchase items on special offer and sign to up to the loyalty card scheme
• Assisting customers in locating items within the store

Part-Time Yard groom at Pentire Sports Horses (2015-02 – 2015-07)

• Weekly yard chores to be completed within a specified time frame
• Regular contact with horse of all sizes, temperaments and needs

– Sherborne St John C of E Primary School (2005 – 2011)

GCSE – Fort Hill Community School (2011 – 2016)

A Level in Maths (Statistics) – Queen Mary's College (2016 – 2018)

A Level in Chemistry – Queen Mary's College (2016 – 2018)

BTec in Sports science – Queen Mary's College (2016 – 2018)

Certificate in Mammalian anatomy and physiology – Writtle University College (2019-09 – 2021-05)