Instructor - Animal Care

**Description**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
1. To be responsible for the instruction of students in in animal care and animal management

2. Supervision, assessment, evaluation, training and monitoring of students working in in animal care and animal management (in line with awarding body standards)

3. Manage and supervise students to ensure that all areas of the animal unit and animal centre are clean; meeting health and safety requirements.

4. Manage and supervise students to ensure that all equipment within the animal unit and animal centre are, clean meeting health and safety requirements

5. Liaise effectively with relevant lecturers on the progress made by learners within the animal unit and animal centre providing updates on skills development and details of any assessments undertaken

6. Review and develop operating systems in liaison with the Centre Director, Programme Manager and Lecturing staff.

7. In liaison with the animal technician maintain animal food stock levels to ensure all animals have food and water available as stated in the standard operating procedures

8. To monitor all stock relating to animal care and animal management to ensure orders are placed to replenish stock when required.

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10. Undertake Health & Safety risk assessments and ensure all working practices are compliant with industry legislation (e.g. COSHH)

11. To ensure that accurate records of animals are kept and the data inputted onto computer systems and paper systems.

12. To follow the current Life Sciences Animal Standard Operating Procedures

13. Assist in the planning of breeding programmes both for sustainability and food sources

14. To maintain all animal areas within Life Sciences to include the internal animal rooms and external enclosures

15. Liaise with corporate facilities where specialist cleaning is required and ensure this is undertaken

16. Ensure continuous development and improvement of professional knowledge

17. Any other duties, of a similar level of responsibility, as may be required.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Qualifications**

Essential Criteria

Level 2/3 Diploma in Animal Care/Management

Health and Safety Qualification

Desirable Criteria

Teaching Qualification e.g. PTLLS or a willingness to achieve the qualification

Assessor Awards V1 and V2

How Identified: Application

**Experience**

Essential Criteria

Experience of handling/ caring and maintaining a wide range of animals to include exotics, mammals and birds

Experience of working within a learning support environment.

How Identified: Application/ Interview

Desirable Criteria
Assessing learners
How Identified: Application

**Specialist Knowledge**

Essential Criteria

The daily responsibilities of an Animal Technician (Lantra 08/01/2013).Knowledge of current legislation including the Animal Welfare Act and the Health and Safety at Work etc., Act

Basic Animal First Aid

How Identified: Application/ Interview

Desirable Criteria

Experience of handling/ caring and maintaining larger animals

How Identified: Application

**IT Skills**

Essential Criteria

Willing to undertake training appropriate to the role.

Willing to undertake training appropriate to role.

Desirable Criteria

Experience of using Promonitor or the willingness to undertake training

How Identified: Application/ interview

**About Hopwood Hall**:
We are a Further Education College and University Centre offering a range of full and part time courses employing over 600 staff on our campuses in Rochdale and Middleton situated to the north-east of Manchester. Both campuses have ample free parking and subsidised restaurants.

We offer staff a range of benefits including free gym membership at our Middleton Sports Arena and generous holiday entitlement.

We are committed to being a great place to work and have membership status of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. We are a Living Wage employer and an accredited Disability Confident Employer. Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion statement is designed to ensure that unfair discrimination does not take place in any part of our recruitment process.

**STAFF BENEFITS**

Working at Hopwood Hall College comes with a wide range of benefits including generous holiday and sick pay entitlements.

**Other benefits include**:

- Career average pension scheme
- Free gym membership at our Middleton Campus Sports Arena
- Purchase loans for computers and bikes
- Staff discount at the College’s Riverside Salon, Sports Arena and Holiday Clubs
- On-site nursery (Rochdale Campus)
- Credit union for savings, low cost loans and life assurance
- Free on-site parking
- On-site Dog Kennels (spaces not guaranteed)
- An electric and hybrid car salary sacrifice scheme (with charging points on site)
- A cycle to work scheme
- Discounted public transport tickets
- Generous holiday entitlement (Teaching staff: 53 days, Business Support staff: 28 days plus bank holidays
- Christmas/New Year closure and the opportunity t