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Animal Management
Animal Management
STUDYING ANIMAL MANAGEMENT AT WESTON COLLEGE
You will get the chance to work with an exciting new range of animals thanks to our partnership with Puxton Park, including domestic, farm and exotic animals include tortoises, parrots, reindeer, owls, marmoset monkeys, meerkats, donkeys, goats, ponies, rare pigs, alpacas, cattle, emus, stick insects and more ...
You will be based both at Knightstone Campus and Puxton Park, where you will benefit from:
- A bespoke animal management campus.
- Weekly experience within an outstanding zoo farm.
- The opportunity to study and work with a wide range of animal species from insects to primates.
- Teaching from industry specialists.
- Opportunities to undertake meaningful and substantial work experience.
- Trips to animal establishments.
- Guest lectures from a wide range of industry specialists
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Careers in Animal Management
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Animals are extremely important to our lives and there is a huge variety of careers in the animal care sector. The animal care industry is worth £1 billion to the UKs economy. It has 13,000 businesses, 78,000 employees and lots of volunteers.
We've bundled the best education in the area with career boosted benefits - and are leveraging our contacts as one of the largest Colleges in the country to give you the best possible chance of success.
Our qualifications have been developed in conjunction with local and national employers and have a proven record of helping students gain animal management related jobs and onto relevant degrees.
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The Animal Care Land Based Studies Certificate is an ideal starting point for animal lovers seeking a career in the animal care industry. The comprehensive course combines theoretical knowledge with hands-on practical work to equip you with the necessary skills and experience for working with animals. Throughout the course, one day per week wi...
Click HereThe Animal Care and Welfare Assistant Apprenticeship offers a rewarding opportunity for individuals who are passionate about working with animals and seeking employment in the field. As an apprentice, you will work alongside experienced professionals at award-winning Puxton Park, gaining valuable job-specific skills, knowledge, and behaviours ...
Click HereThe Animal Care and Welfare Assistant Apprenticeship offers a rewarding opportunity for individuals who are passionate about working with animals and seeking employment in the field. As an apprentice, you will work alongside experienced professionals at award-winning Puxton Park, gaining valuable job-specific skills, knowledge, and behaviours ...
Click HereThe Animal Care Technical Certificate is ideal if you have little experience of working with animals. It combines theoretical knowledge with practical activities and projects. The course emphasises hands-on training – you will develop practical animal handling skills and gain an understanding of the basic care of a wide range of animal speci...
Click HereThe Animal Care and Management T Level is a vocational qualification created to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in the animal care industry. The course involves a significant amount of theory and science. Our experienced tutors are dedicated to teaching you the necessary theory to complement your practical...
Click HereThe Animal Care BTEC Extended Diploma is an ideal choice for animal lovers who aspire to develop their animal care skills and work in the industry. While physically demanding, this course offers immense satisfaction as you will see the positive impact you can have on animals' lives. The course provides a balanced blend of theory and practica...
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Our link with Puxton Park
The College has joined forces with Puxton Park, which will enable you to develop industry-specific skills working within the park’s extensive farmland and facilities, with a wide range of farm and domestic animals, which will significantly enhance your employability skills for the future.
The link will also allow you to gain broader experience in your customer service skills, by engaging with tourists, families and school parties; all helping to prepare you for the world of work.
Taken straight from our virtual open evenings, Charlotte (one of the lecturers) gives us a guided tour of our Animal Management facilities!
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You will get the chance to work with an exciting range of animals thanks to our partnership with Puxton Park, one of the region’s top visitor attractions.
Your classroom lectures will come to life as you carry out practical sessions at the park, enabling you to develop industry specific skills working with the park’s specialist facilities and animals.
Puxton’s range of domestic, farm and exotic animals include tortoises, parrots, reindeer, owls, marmoset monkeys, meerkats, donkeys, goats, ponies, rare pigs, alpacas, cattle, emus and stick insects.
The partnership will also allow you to gain broader customer service skills, by engaging with tourists, families and school parties - all helping you prepare for the world of work.
You will be based both at Knightstone Campus and Puxton Park, where you will benefit from:
- A bespoke animal management campus.
- Weekly experience within an outstanding zoo farm.
- The opportunity to study and work with a wide range of animal species from insects to primates.
- Teaching from industry specialists.
- Opportunities to undertake meaningful and substantial work experience.
- Trips to animal establishments.
- Guest lectures from a wide range of industry specialists.
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WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY
Level 3 Extended Diploma in Animal Management
Animal Care BTEC Technical Diploma
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<p>Animal Management is a hugely important industry, which is worth over £2 billion to the UK economy. We have launched our Animal Management Career Excellence Hub to meet the need of careers within the sector, with over 59% of households having pets, the need for vets and animal specialists is rapidly increasing.</p>
<p>The Career Excellence Hubs have been created to get our learners to reach their ultimate career goals by focussing on future employability and developing the skills that they will need to have a successful career!</p>
<p>Our Animal Management Career Excellence Hub is focused on providing our learners with the right learning environment to help them to reach their potential. Lecturers provide concepts and ideas through their own industry experience which is valuable to the students as it provides them with 21st Century employability skills and ‘real world learning’ through employer briefs and real-life case studies and scenarios. The course is co-designed with local endorsers which include Noah's Ark Zoo, North Somerset Agricultural Society and Puxton Park. Through our endorsers we offer enhanced work experience and provide unrivalled exposure.</p>
<p>They will get to study in state-of-the-art learning spaces at Puxton Park which enables them to develop industry-specific skills working within the park’s extensive farmland, facilities and wide range of farm and domestic animals. This gives our learners the opportunity to gain a valuable hands-on experience and prepares them with all the tools they will need to succeed in their educational journey to their chosen careers.</p>
<p>With the Animal Management campus being in the heart of Puxton Park, it gives the learners the opportunity to gain a valuable hands-on experience and preparing them with all the tools they will need to succeed in their educational journey to their chosen careers. Animal Management is an exciting and varied industry with many career paths our learners can take, these include zoologist, veterinary nurse, and animal physiotherapist.</p>
<p>For more information on how to apply to Weston College and join our amazing Career Excellence Hub for Animal Management, <a href="https://www.weston.ac.uk/what-can-i-study/courses-16-18-year-olds/anima… here</a>.</p>
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<p>Term has only just begun, and Weston College Animal Management students have already had the chance to meet and learn from industry guest speakers about various careers within the sector, such as a Dog Groomers, Zookeepers, RSPCA Inspectors, Animal Keepers and Pet Shop Managers.</p>
<p>The industry guest speakers explained their own personal journeys into the animal management industry, the opportunities available, what a day in the life in their role is like and their favourite highlights too. The session was designed to inspire learners and provide them with an insight to what they might want to do in the future. This valuable experience for students is just one of the fantastic career enhancing opportunities available at the College, through the newly launched <a href="https://www.weston.ac.uk/career-excellence-hubs">Career Excellence Hubs</a>; each subject area has its own specific Career Excellence Hub, endorsed by relevant sector employers which help to create a study programme with lots of career boosting benefits; industry guest speakers is one of these benefits, enabling students to learn from people already in the industry and understand the requirements and career possibilities.</p>
<p>The day started off with Mac, Puxton Park Animal Team Supervisor and Weston College alumni. Mac began he journey as a BTEC student at the College, he then went on to study the Animal Management FdSc at University Centre Weston, before landing a job at the Park.</p>
<p>Mac commented: “I’ve been a keeper here for 4 years and the advice I would give students is to try as early as possible to get some broad experience of the multiple areas within the animal industry. This will ensure they enter the part of the industry that will suit them best and will provide them with diverse experiences that will look good and help with future employment.”</p>
<p>Mac’s session was followed by Jollyes Pet Shop Manager, Cat, based in Cadbury Garden Centre.</p>
<p>Cat advised students: “To be in a career within Animal Management, I’d recommend going to college and gaining a qualification, you then have the option to progress even higher and go to university. Many of the staff I work alongside have a degree in either Animal Care or Animal Management, this stands you in good stead to work in a Pet Shop or be a Veterinary Nurse for example. It can be a very competitive industry.”</p>
<p>Next the students were introduced to Alan, an inspector for the RSPCA since 1999, he gave students an interesting insight into how he landed his role, a day in the life and some of the dangerous situations you may encounter as an RSPCA inspector.</p>
<p>The audience of inspired students listened as Alan described how he rescued a horse from a cliff edge, by abseiling down to the beach below to guide him, and how even the royal marines had to intervene to save the horse’s life.</p>
<p>Following on was Georgia, Bow Wow Dog Groomers in Clevedon. George explained the process of how she became a dog groomer, starting at Pets At Home and working her way up to a stylist position before starting her own business.</p>
<p>Georgia expressed how impressed she had been with multiple Weston College students who had visited her groomers for work experience, she was so happy with one student’s hard work and skill, that she employed her on a full-time basis.</p>
<p>Maxine Park, Subject Area Manager commented: “The teaching team would like to thank the industry guest speakers who gave up their time to impart their knowledge on the sector and inspire the next generation. The launch of the Animal Management Career Excellence Hub has brought a variety of new opportunities to our Animal Management students, and this paired with their campus being in the heart of Puxton, has given the students a chance to gain valuable hands on experience, preparing them with all of the tools they'll need to succeed in their educational journey to their chosen careers.”</p>
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<p>Success stories about student progress always make great reading and this year we have seen more fantastic students, who have made the most of the opportunities presented to them.</p>
<p>Two students I want to focus on today, study a Level 3 Animal Management course. Both learners worked at The Pet Studio in Nailsea, where they put their theory into practice, and developed both technical and employability skills needed, to work as a dog groomer.</p>
<p>Both learners completed over 200 hours of work experience, and impressed so much, that they were offered a place at The Pet Studio Dog Grooming Training Academy based in Congresbury.</p>
<p>One year on, and not only have they successfully managed to complete their course at the Academy, but they are now employed by The Pet Studio.</p>
<p>The Pet Studio, run by Liza Smith, is using Weston College students as a talent pipeline for her business. <a href="https://www.weston.ac.uk/work-experience?utm_source=main-menu&utm_m… Placements</a> have offered Liza many benefits, including developing young people and equipping them with the skills needed to work in the dog grooming business, and utilising an extra pair of hands in the studio.</p>
<p>Studio manager Danielle said “Liza gave me a chance to work here when I was a student, and now I am happy to give others that same chance. The students from Weston College are brilliant, motivated, and hardworking, we love having them here. The industry placement scheme is great, I can’t think why all businesses don’t take advantage of it.”</p>
<p>If you think that this might benefit your business then please do not hesitate to contact us, we have student from all courses that would love the opportunity to work with you. workplacementteam@weston.ac.uk</p>
<p><em>Sarah Roberts, Work Placement Officer</em></p>
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