animal trainer
ISCO: 5164. Skills: 67. Essential: 26.
Essential skills
- advise on animal welfare
- anatomy of animals
- animal behaviour
- animal welfare
- animal welfare legislation
- apply animal hygiene practices
- apply safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- assess animal behaviour
- assistive instruments
- biosecurity related to animals
- deal with challenging people
- design training programmes for individuals and animals
- environmental enrichment for animals
- handle veterinary emergencies
- implement exercise activities for animals
- manage animal biosecurity
- monitor the welfare of animals
- physiology of animals
- practise veterinary professional codes of conduct
- provide an enriching environment for animals
- provide animal training
- provide first aid to animals
- safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- signs of animal illness
- train animals and individuals to work together
- treat animals ethically
Supporting skills
- advise customers on appropriate pet care
- advise on animal purchase
- advise on care products for pets
- animal production science
- assess animal's condition
- assess customers
- assess the compatibility of individuals and animals to work together
- assist in transportation of animals
- bathe dogs
- breed-specific behaviour of horses
- calculate rates per hours
- care for horses
- clean stalls
- collaborate with animal related professionals
- cope with challenging circumstances in the veterinary sector
- create animal records
- design plans to address undesirable behaviour in animals
- design training programmes for animals
- develop an animal handling strategy
- dog behaviour
- evaluate dogs
- exercise patience
- horse anatomy
- interview animal owners on animals' conditions
- maintain animal accommodation hygienic
- maintain relationships with animal welfare establishments
- make decisions regarding the animal's welfare
- manage a small-to-medium business
- manage personal professional development
- protect health and safety when handling animals
- provide mentorship
- provide nutrition to animals
- select animals for training
- select therapy animals
- take advantage of learning opportunities in veterinary science
- teach young horses
- train horses
- transport horses
- understand the animal's situation
- work with veterinarians
- young horses training