guide dog instructor
ISCO: 5164. Skills: 36. Essential: 16.
Essential skills
- advise customers on appropriate pet care
- animal welfare legislation
- assess the compatibility of individuals and animals to work together
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- communicate with customers
- control animal movement
- create animal records
- deal with challenging people
- dog behaviour
- evaluate dogs
- guide dog training methods
- implement exercise activities for animals
- protect health and safety when handling animals
- provide animal training
- train animals and individuals to work together
- visual disability
Supporting skills
- administer appointments
- advise on animal purchase
- anatomy of animals
- animal welfare
- assist in transportation of animals
- assistive instruments
- design training programmes for animals
- instruct on animal care
- interview people
- maintain animal accommodation hygienic
- maintain professional administration
- manage a small-to-medium business
- physiology of animals
- provide an enriching environment for animals
- provide first aid to animals
- provide nutrition to animals
- stay alert
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- tolerate stress
- work with veterinarians