JOB VACANCIES AT THE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR CENTRE

As the UK's leading behaviour and training centre we have a huge amount of requests for people wishing to further their careers by training or becoming employed with us. It is very difficult for us to respond to all these requests individually, please read the paragraphs below which should answer all your queries.

Job Vacancies

Dog Trainer

We are looking to recruit a dog trainer to work on a self-employed basis at our centre in Chertsey. This is a great opportunity to work for one of the country's leading behaviour centres and will bring a host of prospects for the right candidate.

• Experienced, mature person who is able to work on own initiative but also able to contribute to the Behaviour Centre team.
• Must be an existing APDT member or willing to join.
• Modern thinking, reward based trainer.
• Experience in teaching agility an advantage but not essential.
• Must be prepared to work regular evenings and\or weekends (by arrangement).
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Basic IT skills essential.
• Salary and hours negotiable.

For more information please contact:
Sarah Godfrey 01932 574293
sarah.godfrey@companyofanimals.co.uk

Assistant trainers

We do occasionally take on assistants to help our current trainers at the centre. This gives the assistant the chance to learn and develop their own handling skills and teaching ability before possibly starting out on their own. Successful assistants will always be given priority for any future, suitable positions that become available. Assistant trainer positions are entirely voluntary. Due to the high number of applicants, preference will be given to those with some current dog training experience. If you would like to be considered as an assistant then please email your current details and experience to sarah.godfrey@companyofanimals.co.uk titling your message 'Assistant trainers'.

Starting a career in behaviour or training

There are now a huge number of courses available in the study of behaviour and training. Unfortunately we cannot advise on these as it is impossible to monitor them all. Good contacts for finding details of courses are; www.apdt.co.uk www.apbc.co.uk www.asab.nottingham.ac.uk www.cabtsg.org www.soton.ac.uk www.sparsholt.ac.uk

Behaviour and training courses

At present we do not run training courses for individuals who wish to become involved in training and/or behaviour but this is something we are interested in offering in the future. If you would like to be added to the contact list for any future courses then please email karen.hill@companyofanimals.co.uk titling your message .contact list for cpd days..

Individual workshops/training days

At the Animal Behaviour Centre, we are always looking for ways to expand our range of services. If you are a suitably qualified individual who can run a workshop/training day that you feel may be of interest to us then please contact behaviour@companyofanimals.co.uk titling your message 'workshop suggestions'. Please note that training methods used will have to conform to our own ethic of reward - based training.

Seeing practice

Students on relevant animal related courses, VNs or similar wishing to .see practice. at the centre are most welcome and will be accommodated whenever possible. Please do bear in mind however that we do get booked up a long time in advance. Please email karen.hill@companyofanimals.co.uk and title your message 'seeing practice'.

E group list

If you are a veterinary practice, rescue centre or individual involved with training and behaviour who would like to be kept up to date with all the events that are happening at the Animal Behaviour Centre, then you can join our email list. Please send your email address to beahviour@companyofanimals.co.uk titling your message 'please add to email list'.

Thank you for your interest in the Animal Behaviour Centre and
Company of Animals