L2 Diploma in Animal CareDestination: Inspiration!

Jobs within the Animal Industry

Introduction

• Within the animal industry, there are many different sectors, each with their own jobs.

• In today’s session, we are going to be looking at some of those jobs and the responsibilities that fall under them.

• By the end of this session, you should have a much greater understanding of the different jobs available to you and what those jobs involve.

Lesson Aims:

• By the end of this session, you will be able to:

– Name at least three different sectors within the animal industry.

– Identify at least five jobs within each of those sectors.

– Explain the roles and responsibilities of those five jobs.

– Explain the skills and qualifications required to gain those jobs.

Quick Revision Task

• Thinking back to last lesson, how many different sectors within the animal industry can you think of?

• Production (livestock, crops),• Leisure/tourism, • Equestrian, • Fishery management, • Aquaculture, • Farriery, • Game keeping, • Animal care/welfare, • Conservation

Jobs Within the Animal Industry

• Within the animal industry, people don’t just work with the animals.

• Within a company every job is vital to the running of the organisation.

• Take the college as an example…– The teacher’s teach you the subject content…

– The learning coach teaches you the skills you need to pass the course…

• But have you thought about what else goes on behind the scenes at the college?

NHC

• At NHC, there are hundreds of people, all contributing to the running of the organisation:– Managers– Human Resources– Catering– Administrators– Cleaners– Maintenance– Marketing and many more

• Some might think that teachers have the most important job role within a college but without each of these other people doing their job, the teachers wouldn’t be able to do theirs!

The Animal Industry

• So, within the animal industry, there are the key jobs that everyone thinks of such as veterinary nurse, zoo keeper, RSPCA inspector.

• But there are many more jobs with roles vital to the running of the organisation.

• Some of these, such as the gift shop or café are known as auxiliary services.– Technically the organisation could function

without these auxiliary services but they would not be very popular if they tried!

Task

• This week’s task involves everyone in the group doing some research and adding some information to a document.

• The document can be found at the link on 3D Learning in the lesson details (where you found this presentation).

• We are using a GoogleDoc Word file.

• Follow the instructions on 3D Learning.

Summary

• The task that you are doing today will be very useful for all of you when it comes to working on your assignment.

• Make sure you do your bit and add to the GoogleDoc file.

• Please add your initials or name to the bit that you have added.

• As a class you will build a large document with lots of information that you can all share.