Subject: Animal Care - Options Subject Leader: Emma Lloyd Walker

Head of Department: Mrs M Morecombe

Qualification: BTEC First Award in Animal Care

Examination Board: EDEXCEL

Course Content: 

The technical award is a hands-on course for anyone wishing to work in the animal care sector. You will get first-hand experience of looking after our animals in the Animal Care department. You must be willing to handle and restrain animals, clean faeces, change bedding and other tasks related to animal care. You will apply what you learn in theory lessons to practical lessons and develop key employability skills such as team work, communication, research skills. Component 1: Animal Handling. You will be taught how to handle the different animals in animal care and how to restrain them safely. Component 2: Animal housing and accommodation: You will assess the suitability of different types of accommodation and carryout practical tasks relating to each type of accommodation. Component 3: Animal Health and Wellbeing: You will learn all about the different diseases animals can get and how to carryout different daily and weekly health checks.

How you will learn:

You will be required to carry out independent research into animals within the animal care centre.