Volunteers will be responsible for all the hedgehogs in the charity’s care, from admission to release.
They would also help with organising and supervising the charity’s volunteer care team, as well as dealing with members of public when they phone up or drop off a hedgehog.
Pictured: New volunteers will be responsible for all the hedgehogs in the charity’s care from admission to release.
On admission to the Hedgehog Preservation Group’s rescue centre, hedgehogs are housed in a warm room which the care managers are responsible for.
The animals are then moved to a cold room and later an outside enclosure, where the other volunteers clean and feed the spiny mammals.
However, care managers are responsible for marking and weighing hedgehogs and deciding on releases – contacting the finder if they have expressed a desire to release the hedgehog in their own garden, or finding a suitable alternative release site if not.
New voluntary care managers will be trained on how to identify parasites, inject medication, and hand-rear abandoned hoglets.
Pictured: The new volunteers will be trained on how to identify parasites, inject medication, and hand-rear abandoned hoglets.
Volunteers must be prepared to encounter some badly injured and very sick hedgehogs.
The successful new care managers would be expected to attend a one-day basic hedgehog first aid course at Vale Wildlife Hospital in Tewkesbury.
The fees and travel expenses for this course would be covered by the charity.
If you are interested in the role and would like to join the Hedgehog Preservation Group for a trial session, you can contact Dru on 01534 734340 or jerseyhedgehogs@hotmail.co.uk.