Animal Care Apprenticeship for Premier Dog Day Care Centre

Summary

Dog Diplomacy is a family run business offering premier dog daycare in the North West and they are looking for a new member to join their team.

Wage: £10,649.60 a year
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Training course: Animal care and welfare assistant (level 2)
Hours: Work hours are spread over 5 days a week Monday to Friday, exact shift pattern to be discussed with the employer and successful candidate.
32 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 3 March
Duration: 1 year
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Predominantley working indoors with up to 60 dogs at any one time, you will be:

Cleaning dog areas, communal areas and staff areas
Playing with and socialising the dogs
Helping with feeding
Once confident some customer facing is required

Where you’ll work

Unit 4, 60A Westhoughton RD

Adlington

Chorley

PR7 4ET

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

HADDON TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Animal care and welfare assistant (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Your training plan

You will be working towards the Level 2 Animal Care and Welfare Apprenticeship, this will be delivered by the employer and Haddon Training
You may need to complete functional skills in maths and English if you have not achieved a 4/C GCSE (or equivalents) or above

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness

Other requirements

This location is easily accessible by both Train and Bus, please make sure you can get yourself to and from the location before applying.

About this company

We are a completely family run business offering Dog Day Care services to our clients throughout Bolton, Chorley and the surrounding areas. The business is headed by Neil, who has over 14 years’ experience TRAINING pet dogs for clients. During this time we have seen over 1000 dogs of all shapes and sizes and dealt with a wide range of issues successfully. We are proud of our extensive practical experience and feel that no amount of distance learning could replace the knowledge we have accrued. We know our clients would agree. At the same time, we are extremely well read on subjects such as dog psychology and learning, and this shines through in our practical handling and the advice we provide to our clients. We feel strongly that a large part of our business must focus on the way people learn, as well as dogs. It is important that we concentrate our efforts on facilitating the learning of our clients, to enable them to do the same for their dog.

https://dogdiplomacy.co.uk/all-about-dog-day-care.html (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Possible progression to the Level 3 Animal Care
Possiblity of a full time role on completion of the apprenticeship

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