Our Animal Care Assistant programme provides essential animal care and management skills that can begin your pathway into Animal Nursing, such as: delivering basic treatments, feeding and understanding animal nutrition, supporting animal accommodation and much more!

Course Details

What will I study on this course?

Deliver basic treatments to animals
Maintain animal accommodation
Provide feed and water to animals
Principle of infection control for animal nursing
Companion animal anatomy and physiology exam
Principles of basic animal nursing assistance
Control and restrain animals
Companion pharmacology
Companion animal nutrition
Companion parasitology and zoonosis

How will it be delivered and assessed?

You will be assessed through theory and practical sessions, theory assignments and practical assessment, and building a portfolio of evidence over the year.
There is also an Anatomy & Physiology exam.

Entry requirements

You will need:

4 GCSEs at Grade 3 or higher, including English, maths and science.

Additional information

https://www.cwa.ac.uk/school-leavers

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