Code: AN1FTP001B0
This course will enable you to work with a wide range of animals and develop your practical skills. The programme will also provide you with underpinning knowledge of animal health, behaviour, food and care requirements.
Brooksby College is home to an extensive Animal Care Centre housing a wide rang of animals on-site here. From exotics to domestics, insects to farm and hoofed animals, students benefit from a wealth of hands-on experience, allowing for a truly well-rounded educational experience.
Modules include:
Health and Safety
Preparing for work experience
Maintaining animal health and wellbeing
Assisting with moving, handling and maintaining animal accommodation
Animals in the wild and their main features
Assisting with feeding and watering animals
Assisting with exercising animals
This course involves both theory and practical classes, which will allow you to develop your skills in all areas of Animal Care. There will also be an emphasis developing key personal skills that will allow students to progress on to futher study.
1 GCSE at grade 3 or above, preferrably in English
Upon successful completion of this course, students may progress onto Level 2 programmes in relevant subjects, or into an apprenticeship or a job within the industry, for example Animal Care Assistant or Kennel/Cattery Worker.
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