School Farm Assistant - Casual on call position at Orange High School

Key accountabilities

• Establish and cultivate a range of crops as agreed with teaching and/or senior farm staff; maintain crops, including pest and weed control, fertilisation, watering and drainage

• Harvest mature crops and assist in the disposal of produce in accordance with school procedures

• Undertake stock control duties, including the receipt, storage and inventory of farm supplies, in accordance with school procedures and safe work standards (e.g. chemical storage and handling)

• Perform a range of general farm maintenance tasks, including storehouse and fencing; mow and care for grassed areas associated with the school’s agriculture plot

• Assist with the care of livestock and poultry, and where required, undertake associated breeding program tasks

• Comply / cooperate with health and safety guidelines / procedures (including wearing personal protective equipment supplied by the employer (as required); report incidents and hazards; participate in training

• Other related duties as required by the principal 1 Key challenges

• Maintaining the agriculture plot and associated areas to agreed workable / usable standards

• Responding flexibly in an unpredictable environment with occasionally competing priorities

• Maintaining cooperative relationships with farm and teaching staff.