animal care attendant
ISCO: 5164. Skills: 50. Essential: 28.
Essential skills
- advise on animal welfare
- anatomy of animals
- animal behaviour
- animal nutrition
- animal welfare
- animal welfare legislation
- apply animal hygiene practices
- apply safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- assess animal behaviour
- assist in transportation of animals
- biosecurity related to animals
- breed reptiles
- control animal movement
- environmental enrichment for animals
- groom animals
- handle veterinary emergencies
- implement exercise activities for animals
- maintain animal accommodation hygienic
- manage animal biosecurity
- manage animal welfare
- monitor the welfare of animals
- physiology of animals
- provide an enriching environment for animals
- provide animal training
- provide first aid to animals
- provide nutrition to animals
- safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- signs of animal illness
Supporting skills
- animal production science
- animal species
- animal training
- apply numeracy skills
- assess animal's condition
- calculate rates per hours
- care for juvenile animals
- collaborate with animal related professionals
- cope with challenging circumstances in the veterinary sector
- create solutions to problems
- deal with challenging people
- establish aquarium
- handle veterinary patients
- have computer literacy
- interview animal owners on animals' conditions
- locate microchip in animals
- make decisions regarding the animal's welfare
- microchip scanners
- take advantage of learning opportunities in veterinary science
- treat animals ethically
- understand the animal's situation
- use different communication channels