West Midland Safari and Leisure Park is aiming to fill 250 jobs in the New Year it has been announced today.

The posts will go up for grabs when a jobs bus rolls into Kidderminster town centre on January 12.

Staff from both the Jobcentre Plus and the Safari Park will be ready to recruit people for the Bewdley-based attraction, which is to reopen its gates to the public on February 14.

Jobs on offer include those as commercial, guest service and catering assistants as well as cleaning staff, leisure and games assistants and mini bus drivers.

Michelle Link, human resource officer for the West Midland Safari Park, said: “Following the success of last year’s recruitment, we are very pleased to be working with Jobcentre Plus again this year and hope to attract a lot of people to the open days.

“We have a wide variety of positions for people of all ages and background, which offer flexible hours.”