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Level 2 Animal Care Apprenticeship for Award Winning Hungarian Vizsla Breeder
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Level 2 Animal Care Apprenticeship for Award Winning Hungarian Vizsla Breeder
Summary
Work with the award-winning GVP Club, a luxury Hungarian Vizsla breeding programme, who are dedicated to producing exceptional family companions for clients across the UK and the rest of the world. They are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated apprentice with a genuine passion for dogs to gain hands-on experience.
- Wage: £6,656 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
- National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course: Animal care and welfare assistant (level 2)
- Hours: Minimum contracted hours of 16 hours per week and up to 45 in busy periods
- Start date: Monday 26 October 2026
- Duration: 1 year 3 months
- Positions available: 1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Daily Canine Care
- Feed adult dogs and puppies according to individual feeding plans
- Ensure fresh drinking water is always available
- Observe and report any changes in health or behaviour
- Assist with grooming and general husbandry
- Maintain exceptional standards of canine welfare at all times
- Puppy Development
- Support the GVP companion system with:
- Early puppy socialisation
- Environmental exposure
- Confidence building
- Basic training foundations
- Handling and grooming exercises
- Crate training
- Toilet training routines
- Preparing puppies for their forever homes
- Exercise, enrichment and training
- Support the GVP companion system with:
Where you'll work
THE OLD POST OFFICE EAST HILL ROAD KNATTS VALLEY SEVENOAKS TN15 6YB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- Training provider: HADDON TRAINING LIMITED
- Training course: Animal care and welfare assistant (level 2)
What you'll learn
- 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
- Monitor, record and report the health and welfare of animals
- Approach/handle/restrain/move/recapture animals
- Exercise/socialise animals and provide appropriate enrichment
- Provide appropriate care, for example coat, skin, scales, plumage and feet
- Provide food and water to animals
- Store and care for foodstuffs
- Identify and describe animals using appropriate methods
- Maintain, update and reference correct records
- Deliver customer experience
- Respond to animal first aid, urgent, ongoing and preventive care requirements
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Beyond routine animal husbandry:
- Handle animals with specific needs or unknown behaviour
- Follow a prepared interaction/handling plan
- Use methods such as desensitisation and socialisation
- Handle animals 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
- Monitor the physical and emotional health and welfare of animals during and after movement and transportation
- Present a safe, friendly and welcoming reception for customers/clients/animals
- Provide information, advice, support and guidance on a range of topics
- 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
- Prepare animals and environment for mating
- Monitor animals during parturition
- Carry out general care of animals through gestation
- 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 with the support of a helper and dog trainer
- Interpret the dog’s behaviour and indications and react accordingly
- Ensure that the dog team (handler and dog) maintains the minimum standard of operational performance
- Operate the dog team within the legal and ethical framework associated with their employment
- 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) in order to understand the behavioural and ecological needs of the animal as well as be aware of the potential risks it may pose
- Support, as directed, a veterinary surgeon / veterinary nurse in a clinical environment
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Training schedule
You will be working towards the Level 2 Animal Care and Welfare Assistant apprenticeship qualification, and all training will be provided on site during your paid working hours. Your day-to-day mentoring will be with your employer, and a combination of online and in person monthly sessions will be held with your Haddon Training Trainer Coach.
Requirements
- Desirable qualifications:
- GCSE in: English (grade 4), Maths (grade 4)
- 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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Passion to work with dogs
- Other requirements:
- You do need to be 18+ for this role due to the employer needing you to be able to drive (and for insurance purposes).
- The use of personal mobile phones during working hours is not permitted unless specifically authorised as part of your duties, such as taking photographs or videos for The GVP Club, recording training progress or communicating with the team.
- Personal calls, messaging and social media should only be accessed during designated breaks.
About this employer
The Ginger Vizsla Puppy Club is a distinguished KC Assured Breeder of Hungarian Smooth Coat Vizslas, nestled in the heart of the Kent countryside in Sevenoaks. With an emphasis on excellence and rarity, we offer only limited availability, reflecting the considered, boutique nature of our breeding programme. This is not simply what we do – it is our passion.
Founded to bring exceptional, KC-registered Smooth Coat Hungarian Vizslas not only in the UK but RoW, The GVP is dedicated to raising puppies of outstanding quality for discerning, devoted homes. Every one of our puppies is KC registered, comprehensively health-checked, and comes from exemplary lineage.
https://www.thegingervizpuppyclub.co.uk/mainpage
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
Possibility of progressing to the Level 3 Animal Care Apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
- HADDON TRAINING LIMITED
- Emma Openshaw
- Email: emma.openshaw@haddontraining.co.uk
- Phone: 07749577150
- Reference code: VAC2000043360
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Closes in 23 days (Saturday 24 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
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