Animal care attendant
Code 5164.1
Animal care attendants provide routine care for non-production animals, which may include feeding, watering, cleaning, exercise and enrichment, grooming, training and monitoring of the health and welfare, in accordance with national legislation.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- animal nutrition
- anatomy of animals
- animal welfare
- biosecurity related to animals
- animal behaviour
- environmental enrichment for animals
- physiology of animals
- animal welfare legislation
- safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- signs of animal illness
Skills and competences
- apply animal hygiene practices
- apply safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- groom animals
- assist in transportation of animals
- control animal movement
- provide an enriching environment for animals
- maintain animal accommodation hygienic
- manage animal welfare
- provide animal training
- provide nutrition to animals
- implement exercise activities for animals
- monitor the welfare of animals
Transversal competences
- advise on animal welfare
- assess animal behaviour
- manage animal biosecurity
- handle veterinary emergencies
- provide first aid to animals
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