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Kennel Assistant
Job Overview
Kennel Assistant; cleaning, exercising, feeding, monitoring animal behaviour, checking dogs and cat's mental/physical stimulation. Work on your own initiative, demanding role in all weather conditions. New or experienced welcome, experience with animals.
What You'll Do
Responsibilities
- Looking after dogs' welfare
- Cleaning of kennels and cattery
- Feeding the dogs and cats
- Walking the dogs and providing exercise
- Monitoring behaviours of animals and looking for changes that need reporting to manager
Work Location
MOORGATE COTTAGE
BROAD LANE
BURNEDGE
ROCHDALE
OL16 4QD
Apprenticeship Details
Training and Education
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
THE COLLEGE OF ANIMAL WELFARE LIMITED
Training Course
Animal care and welfare assistant (level 2)
Course Contents
- Comply with UK and EU Animal related legislation
- Work effectively in a safe and healthy working environment
- Identify and report potential hazards and breaches of security within animal accommodation/enclosures
- Clean and maintain animal accommodation/enclosures/environment and equipment
- Maintain hygiene, bio security procedures and infection controls when working with animals
- Dispose of waste in a safe and appropriate manner
- Store, use and administer medication in line with legislative and veterinary instructions
- Monitor, record and report the health and welfare of animals
- Observe and be aware of the behaviour of animals and take appropriate actions
- Approach/handle/restrain/move/recapture animals
- Exercise/socialise animals and provide appropriate enrichment
- Provide appropriate care for animals
- Provide food and water to animals and monitor the intake
- Store and care for foodstuffs
- Identify and describe animals
- Maintain, update and reference correct records
- Deliver customer experience
- Respond to animal first aid, urgent, ongoing and preventive care requirements
- Follow a prepared interaction/handling plan
- Undertake interaction/handling activities
- Handle the animal throughout the interaction/handling
- Monitor, report and record the response and welfare of the animal
- Apply techniques which take into account the animal’s welfare and emotional wellbeing
- Contribute to the assessment of an animal’s readiness for rehoming
- Provide advice to customers/clients on the suitability of animals
- Support customers/clients during the rehoming/intake process
- Contribute to the assessment of the animal during the intake process
- Contribute to the matching process
- Prepare means of transport appropriate for animals
- Prepare animals for movement and/or transportation
- Use of appropriate equipment and methods to move and transport animals
- Monitor the physical and emotional health and welfare of animals during and after movement and transportation
- Identify route and contingency plans
- Identify if an animal required veterinary care and take appropriate action
- Present a safe, friendly and welcoming reception for internal and external customers/clients/animals
- Provide information, advice, support and guidance on a range of topics such as animal care and welfare
- Use appropriate methods of technology for internal and external communication
- Prepare, receive and store deliveries of goods
- Prepare and display stock for sale
- Take payment for goods, services and charitable donations
- Process customer and animal registrations and bookings
- Keep records for individual animals and people
- Prepare animals and environment for mating
- Monitor animals during parturition
- Carry out general care of animals through gestation
- Prepare and manage pregnant animals pre and post parturition
- Provide appropriate care and monitoring of neonates
- Carry out procedures for caring for the young (once weaned) and introducing them to new environments
- Socialise young animals appropriately
- Fit and maintain appropriate equipment
- Conduct refresher/maintenance training
- Interpret the dog’s behaviour and indications and react accordingly
- Ensure that the dog team maintains the minimum standard of operational performance
- Operate the dog team within the legal and ethical framework
- Transport working dogs
- Respond to collection requests
- Identify wild animals that are suitable for rehabilitation and release
- Plan and undertake rehabilitation for release into the wild
- Capture and handle healthy and casualty wild animals
- Move and transport wild animals appropriately
- Release and monitor wild animals as appropriate
- Carry out the hand rearing of wildlife species
- Identify a range of different species (wildlife) or breeds (domestic)
- Support a veterinary surgeon / veterinary nurse in a clinical environment
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Training Schedule
Level 2 Animal Care and Welfare Assistant Apprenticeship standard
On site at employer’s location
Apprentice will attend a half day online classroom session with college staff for theory
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Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in English (grade 4/C or Equivalent)
- GCSE in Maths (grade 4/C or Equivalent)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Time keeping
Other Requirements
- Good work ethic
- Good time keeping
- Motivated
- Working outside in all weathers
About the Company
Burnedge Boarding Kennels & Cattery is a family run business that provides accommodation, love and care for your pets while you're away.
https://www.burnedgekennelscattery.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Further room for development where vacancies become available
Opportunities - based on performance, would become permanent member of staff
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE COLLEGE OF ANIMAL WELFARE LIMITED
Justin Groves
jgroves@Caw.ac.uk
01480422060
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000046073.
Closes in 5 days (Monday 31 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
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