30/09/2026
🐴 COMPETITION GROOM / WORKING STUDENT WANTED 🐴
📍 Hillview Equine | Scone, NSW
🏡 Full-Time | Live-in Available | Own Horse Welcome
We are looking for an experienced Competition Groom or ambitious Working Student to join our small team at Hillview Equine.
This role would suit someone who genuinely loves performance horses, takes pride in having horses and their surrounds beautifully presented and wants the opportunity to further their own riding and horsemanship within a professional training environment. However, for someone just wanting to groom, that is okay too.
🐎 THE ROLE
Working predominantly with our dressage/performance horses and young horses:
🐴 Daily care and management of horses
🐴 Preparing, tacking up and untacking horses for daily work
🐴 Grooming, washing and post-work care
🐴 Plaiting, clipping and competition preparation
🐴 Tack cleaning and maintaining equipment to a high standard
🐴 Maintaining and organising the tack room, rug room, feed room and other horse areas to a high standard
🐴 Keeping equipment, rugs, feeds and supplies organised, clean, stocked and easy to find
🐴 Medications, bandaging and general horse care
🐴 Assisting with vets, farriers and other practitioners
🐴 Preparing and travelling horses to competitions
🐴 Handling young horses
🐴 Some broodmare and foal work during breeding season – experience is a bonus, but we can teach this
🐴 General farm/property jobs during quieter periods, including mowing and gardens
🙋♀️ YOU MUST
🐴 Have previous competition grooming/performance horse experience
🐴 Be confident handling performance horses and young horses
🐴 Have excellent grooming and presentation skills
🐴 Have a strong work ethic and exceptional attention to detail
🐴 Be fit and physically capable of farm/equine work
🐴 Be confident working independently and as part of a small team
🐴 Be comfortable with sole-charge, self-paced afternoons
🐴 Provide two references from similar equine roles
🐴 Be a non-smoker
🐴 NO PETS – unfortunately we cannot accommodate applicants bringing dogs, cats or other pets
🐴 Ideally be available from mid-October and no later than 1 November. We may negotiate the start date for an exceptional applicant.
🌟 THE PERKS
This is where we think the position is a little different.
You are welcome to bring one horse with you and become part of the Hillview training and competition environment.
🐴 Agistment for one horse
🎓 Minimum 3 lessons per week
🏇 Opportunity to bring and compete your own horse at competitions with us
⭐ Full use of our 5★ equestrian facilities
🩺 Access to the same high-quality farrier, bodyworker, vets, dentist, saddle fitter and bit fitter used for our performance horses
📚 Opportunity to learn and be involved in the complete training, care and management system of a performance horse
🏡 Beautiful private, modern, self-contained on-site accommodation
⏰ HOURS & ROSTER
Full-time position with either a 5 days on / 2 days off or 10 days on / 4 days off roster.
🏇 Weekends are generally rostered off unless we are competing.
Most days are approximately 7am–3pm, with occasional earlier starts or later finishes for competitions, vets, farriers, emergencies or to work around the summer heat.
Where longer days are required, TOIL is provided within the same week or fortnight. We genuinely value our staff and believe additional hours should be balanced with appropriate time off.
Afternoons are predominantly sole-charge and self-paced, so we need someone trustworthy who can see what needs doing, organise their time and get it done without constant supervision.
🌿 WHO WOULD THIS SUIT?
This could be a fantastic opportunity for an experienced competition groom wanting more independence or a slower, more consistent role, or an ambitious working student who wants to bring their own horse, train seriously, compete and continue developing their horsemanship.
For the right applicant, working horses on the ground and under saddle would be considered. However, this is not primarily a riding position.
📍 Scone, NSW
🏡 Private accommodation available
🐎 Own horse welcome
🎓 Minimum 3 lessons per week
📅 Start mid-October / by 1 November preferred
📩 TO APPLY
Please send a short introduction outlining your relevant experience and availability, along with your CV and two relevant equine work references.
📧 [email protected]
Alternatively, send us a PM through Hillview Equine.
