Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Animal Care (QCF)
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- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits54
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification110
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These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assess and plan dog grooming workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and plan the work to be done
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to assess and plan the work to be done
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Assess the suitability of new environments for the placement of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the suitability of new environments to meet the five freedoms
- Understand how to assess the suitability of new environments for the placement of animals
Bidding for WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a bid about products or services.
- Understand the purposes of proposals and quotations.
- Ensure security around tendering for work.
Bidding for WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a bid for products or services.
- Know the differences between proposals and quotations.
- Understand the need for security around tendering for work.
Care for animals after they have workedReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Care for animals after they have worked
- Work safely
- Care for animals after they have worked
- Know relevant health and safety legislation
Carry Out Plans for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement business plans.
- Monitor business plans.
- Evaluate and revise business plans.
Carry out Banking for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of banking facilities available to a business.
- Open and operate a bank account for a business.
- Understand how to monitor the operation of a business bank account.
Carry out Banking for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of banking facilities available for a business.
- Open and operate a bank account for a business.
- Monitor the operation of a business bank account.
Carrying out styling and finishing of dogsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Carrying out styling and finishing for dog
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to carrying out styling and finishing for dog
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Check what Customers Need from the BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake market research to identify the customers for the business.
- Analyse markets and customer needs.
- Match customer needs to business targets.
Choose supplies and suppliers for your businessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a schedule of the supplies needed for your business
- Purchase supplies for your business
- Set up stock control of your business supplies
Choose supplies and suppliers for your businessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare and monitor a schedule of the supplies needed for your business
- Understand how achieve best value when buying supplies for your business
- Understand how to manage and control business supplies to maximise the profitability of your business
Co-ordinate the care of animals that have strayed been abused, harmed or abandonedReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Co-ordinate the care of animals that have been abused, harmed, been picked up as stray or abandoned
- Understand how to co-ordinate the care of animals that have been abused, harmed, been picked up as stray or abandoned
Conduct priority and volume investigationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand the legal and organisational requirements in relation to conducting priority and volume investigations
- Know and understand the professional practice applicable to conducting priority and volume investigations
- Conduct priority and volume investigations
- Complete and submit documentation relating to priority and volume investigations.
Contract the Business PremisesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify premises appropriate for the business.
- Identify the relevant people regarding the business premises contract.
- Identify the terms and conditions for the premises.
Contribute to managing aggressive and abusive behaviour of peopleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the management of episodes of aggressive and abusive behaviour of people
- Understand how to contribute to the management of episodes of aggressive and abusive behaviour of people
Contribute to the prevention of aggressive and abusive behaviour of peopleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Take action to discourage aggressive and abusive behaviour of people
- Understand the actions to take to discourage aggressive and abusive behaviour of people
Controls for Customer PaymentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effect of debt on a business.
- Know about different ways of controlling credit.
- Understand what action is needed to keep debts to a minimum.
- Know the law affecting credit control.
Define the Product or Service of the BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define the product or service.
- Charge the appropriate price for products or services.
- Set targets for sales and distribution.
Define the Product or Service of the BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define the product or service.
- Charge the right price for products or services.
- Set targets for sales and distribution.
Deliver and evaluate interpretive entertainment and educational activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Deliver interpretive and educational activities
- Evaluate the activities
- Understand how to deliver interpretive entertainment and educational activities
- Understand how to evaluate the activities
Design individual training programmes for animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design individual training programmes for animals
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to design individual training programmes for animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Design integrated training programmes for people and animals to realise their combined potentialReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design integrated training programmes for people and animals to realise their combined potential
- Promote health and safety
- Understand how to design integrated training programmes for people and animals to realise their combined potential
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Determine and agree policies for the management of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine and agree policies for the management of animals
- Understand how to determine and agree policies for the management of animals
Develop your business ideaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop Your business idea
- Understand the market for Your business idea
Develop your business ideaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to evaluate your business idea
- Demonstrate how to assess the market for your business idea
Develop your own and others' customer service skillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop their own customer service skills
- Plan the coaching of others in customer service
- Coach others in customer service
- Understand how to develop their own and others’ customer service skills
Encourage and motivate volunteersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Motivate volunteers by promoting the special ethos and values of volunteering
- Recognise voluntary effort by valuing volunteer contributions
- Understand how to motivate volunteers by promoting the special ethos and values of volunteering
- Understand how to recognise voluntary effort by valuing volunteer contributions
Establish animals in a new environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish animals in a new environment
- Promote health and safety
- Maintain accurate records
- Understand how to establish animals in a new environment
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Evaluate and improve training programmes which enable animals to achieve specific objectivesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate and improve training programmes which enable animals to achieve specific objectives
- Understand how to evaluate and improve training programmes which enable animals to achieve specific objectives
Evaluate integrated training programmes for people and animals against agreed outcomesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate integrated training programmes for people and animals against agreed outcomes
- Promote health and safety
- Understand how to evaluate integrated training programmes for people and animals against agreed outcomes
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Evaluate the match between individuals and animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the match between individuals and animals
- Promote health and safety
- Evaluate the match between individuals and animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Evaluate the receipt of payments from customersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate takings practices and procedures in a retail environment
- Monitor takings practices and processes at the cash point in a retail environment
- Evaluate takings practices and procedures in a retail environment
- Monitor takings practices and processes at the cash point in a retail environment
Explore your business motivesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand your needs and aspirations when setting up and running a business
- Understand how to evaluate your role and personal development needs in your business
Explore your business motivesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify your needs and aspirations when setting up a business
- Be aware of how your own role can affect your personal and business needs
Handle animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Handle animals
- Work safely
- Handle animals
- Know relevant health and safety legislation
Handle animals to enable them to work effectivelyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Handle animals to enable them to work effectively
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Handle animals to enable them to work effectively
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
How to Treat Business CustomersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand customer needs and expectations in the business
- Provide good customer care.
- Monitor service level expectations
Impact of the Environment on a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about environmental laws and regulations and their potential impact on the business.
- Comply with environmental laws and regulations.
- Develop effective environmental practices within the business
Implement individual training programmes for animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement training programmes for animals
- Promote health and safety
- Understand how to implement training programmes for animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Implement integrated training programmes for individuals and animals to realise their agreed outcomesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement integrated training programmes for individuals and animals to realise their agreed outcomes
- Promote health and safety
- Understand how to implement integrated training programmes for individuals and animals to realise their agreed outcomes
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Implement, monitor and evaluate plans for the health and welfare of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement plans to maintain animal health and welfare
- Review plans for the maintenance of animal health and welfare
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to implement plans to maintain animal health and welfare
- Understand how to review plans for the maintenance of animal health and welfare
Improve the customer relationshipReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Improve communication with customers
- Balance the needs of their customers and their organisation
- Exceed customer expectations to develop the relationship with the customer
- Know and understand how to improve the customer relationship
Improve your business skillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how developing your skills and knowledge can help your business
- Understand how to improve your business skills and knowledge
Improving the Quality of Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for providing customers with improved quality products or services.
- Understand the improvements needed to give the business a competitive edge.
- Monitor and improve quality.
Improving the Quality of Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate customer expectations in relation to the quality of products and services
- Establish quality improvement targets to give the business a competitive edge
- Monitor and improve quality.
Interview suspects in relation to priority and volume investigationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand relevant legal and organisational requirements in relation to interviewing suspects
- Know and understand the principles of interviewing suspects
- Plan and prepare interviews with suspects
- Conduct an interview with a suspect
- Evaluate interviews with suspects and carry out post-interview procedures
Interview victims and witnesses in relation to priority and volume investigationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand relevant legal and organisational requirements in relation to interviewing victims and witnesses
- Know and understand the principles of interviewing victims and witnesses
- Plan and prepare interviews with victims and witnesses
- Conduct interview with victims and witnesses
- Evaluate and carry out post-interview procedures with victims and witnesses
Investigate reported abuse or harm to animals and act appropriatelyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate reported abuse or harm of animals
- Understand how to investigate reported abuse or harm of animals
Keep Financial RecordsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial records running a business.
- Know the financial information that needs to be recorded in a business.
- Select an accounts management system to support a business.
- Produce financial records
Keep Financial RecordsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial records to running a business.
- Understand how financial information is recorded in a business.
- Select an appropriate accounts management system to support a business.
- Assess effectiveness of the accounts management system for a business.
Keeping Up to Date with Current Legislation in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with current legal requirements for the business
- Understand the importance of setting terms and conditions that meet legal requirements
Load and unload animals for transportationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare animals and transport
- Load and unload animals for transportation
- Work safely
- Prepare animals and transport
- Load and unload animals for transport
- Know the relevant legislation and codes of practice
Maintain the availability of goods for sale to customers in a retail environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Organise staff to display goods for retail sale
- Assess how effective displays are in a retail environment
- Keep products available and maintain product quality in a retail environment
- Organise staff to display goods for retail sale
- Assess how effective displays are in a retail environment
- Keep products available and maintain product quality in a retail environment
Maintain the health and welfare of animals during transportationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and maintain animals during transportation
- Carry out post transportation activities
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Monitor and maintain animals during transportation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Carry out post transportation activities
Manage the care of young animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Care for young animals
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to care for young animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage the work of volunteersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the work of volunteers
- Prepare resources for volunteers
- Lead the work of volunteers
- Assess the work of volunteers and provide feedback
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
- Understand how to plan the work of volunteers
- Understand how to prepare resources for volunteers
- Understand how to lead the work of volunteers
- Understand how to assess the work of volunteers and provide feedback
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Under
Monitor and evaluate the accommodation of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the accommodation of animals
- Evaluate the accommodation
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the accommodation of animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Monitor and evaluate the establishment and management of wild animal populationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate the establishment and management of wild animal populations
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the establishment and management of wild animal populations
Monitor and evaluate the feeding of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate the feeding of animals
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the feeding of animals
Monitor and evaluate the implementation of animal management policiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate the implementation of animal management policies
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the implementation of animal management policies
Obtaining Support for a Business IdeaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan how to obtain support for a creative business idea.
- Understand the types of support available.
- Present the creative business idea.
Obtaining Support for a Business IdeaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan how to obtain support for a creative business idea.
- Understand the types of support available.
- Prepare for presenting the creative business idea.
Operate work boatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Operate work boats
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Operate work boats
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Organise the receipt and storage of goods in a retail environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Organise staff to receive and check incoming deliveries in a retail environment
- Organise and maintain storage facilities in a retail environment
- Check the storage and care of stock in a retail environment
- Organise staff to receive and check incoming deliveries in a retail environment
- Organise and maintain storage facilities in a retail environment
- Check the storage and care of stock in a retail environment
Plan and prepare to release native animals into natural habitatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to release animals
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Release animals
- Maintain records
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to release animals
- Know the type of equipment used for release
- Understand how to maintain the health and welfare of animal for release
- Understand how to monitor and record release
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan diets and feeding regimes for animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan animal diets and feeding regimes
- Understand how to plan animal diets and feeding regimes
Plan how to let customers know about products or servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review the market for the business’s products or services.
- Produce a plan for marketing the business’s products or services.
- Make plans for regular monitoring and reviewing of marketing performance.
Plan how to let customers know about products or servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the market for the business’s products or services.
- Plan for marketing the business’s products or services.
- Review marketing performance.
Plan temporary accommodation for animals in entertainment and education environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan temporary accommodation
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to plan temporary accommodation
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan the accommodation of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the accommodation of animals
- Understand how to plan the accommodation of animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan the care of animals in entertainment and educationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the care of animals in the working environment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to plan care of animals in the working environment
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan the establishment and management of wild animal populationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the establishment and management of wild animal populations
- Understand how to plan the establishment and management of wild animal populations
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan the handling and restraint of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for handling and restraining animals
- Handle and restrain animals
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to plan the handling and restraint of animals
- Understand how to handle and restrain animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Plan the transportation and transfer of animals for entertainment and educationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the transportation and transfer of animals
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to plan the transportation and transfer of animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan, monitor and evaluate the transportation of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the transportation of animals
- Monitor and evaluate the transportation of animals
- Understand how to plan the transportation of animals
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the transportation of animals
Plan, supervise and control the movement of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the movement of animals
- Supervise the movement of animals
- Promote health and safety
- Understand how to plan, supervise and control the movement of animals
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare WagesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal obligations involved in preparing and making reductions to wages.
- Understand when and where to get professional advice.
Prepare WagesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare wages in keeping with legal obligations, relating to National Insurance and income tax.
- Seek professional advice from the appropriate experts and resources.
- Differentiate variations that can alter the payment of wages.
- Make arrangements for the payments of wages.
Prepare and construct new structures or surfacesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to construct new structures and surfaces
- Construct new structures and/or surfaces
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Understand how to construct new structures and surfaces
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
Prepare and maintain the operational condition of work boatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and maintain the operational condition of workboats
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare and maintain the operational condition of workboats
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and submit case filesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements for preparing and submitting case files
- Prepare case files
- Submit case files and progress enquiries
Prepare artiste to work with the animalReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare artiste to work with the animal
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand why it is important to prepare artiste to work with the animal
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare for the transportation of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to transport animals
- Prepare animals for transport
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know who has responsibilities with regard to the transport animals
- Prepare to transport animals
- Prepare animals for transport
Prepare interpretive entertainment and educational activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare interpretive, entertainment and educational activities
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare interpretive entertainment and educational activities
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare the animal for entertainment and educationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the animal for working in education and entertainment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand why it is important to prepare animal for the entertainment and education environment
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Present information to courts or other hearingsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal and organisational requirements for presenting evidence to courts and other hearings
- Present information to courts or other hearings
- Present information to courts or other hearings
Promote and maintain the health and well-being of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Promote and maintain the health and welfare of animals
- Work safely
- Maintain accurate records
- Promote and maintain the health and welfare of animals
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security of the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to monitor and maintain the health, safety and security of the work area
- Understand how to promote good standards of health and safety
- Understand how to deal with health emergency situations
- Understand the records required and their importance
- Monitor and maintain the health, safety and security of the work area
- Promote good standards of health and safety
- Respond to health emergencies within the work area
Protect the environment through legal enforcementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and confirm the need for enforcement
- Provide evidence of non-compliance
- Initiate and monitor enforcement procedures to protect the environment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Identify and confirm the need for enforcement
- Understand how to initiate enforcement procedures to protect the environment
- Know and understand relevant legislation, including health and safety, codes of practice and environmental good practice
Provide advice and guidance on the choice and care of animals to prospective keepersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Advise prospective keepers on the choice and care of animals
- Understand how to advise prospective keepers on the choice and care of animals
Provide budgetary information for the animal’s role for audio-visual requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide budgetary information for the animal’s role for audio-visual requirements
- Understand how to prepare budgetary information for the animal’s role in the audio-visual requirement
Provide information on how to maintain the behaviour, health and welfare of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide information on how to maintain the behaviour, health and welfare of animals
- Know what information to provide on how to maintain the behaviour, health and welfare of animals
Provide information to customers seeking advice about symptoms and over-the-counter medications for the care of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide information to customers seeking advice about symptoms and over-the-counter medications
- Understand how to provide information to customers seeking advice about symptoms and over-the-counter medications
Recognise and interpret the behaviour of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise and interpret the behaviour of animals
- Understand how to recognise and interpret the behaviour of animals
Recommend animals to meet entertainment and educational requirements in the audio-visual industriesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recommend animals to meet audio-visual requirements
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to recommend suitable animals to meet audio-visual requirements
Run a Business from HomeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits and challenges of running a business from home.
- Know the facilities that may be needed for running a business from home.
- Understand how to create a professional image when running a business from home.
- Understand how to deal with the expectations of family, neighbours and clients.
Run a Business from HomeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for running a business from home.
- Select appropriate facilities needed for running a business from home.
- Project professionalism when running a business from home.
- Deal with the expectations of family, neighbours and clients.
Seek Advice and Help for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate sources of advice and help available for the business.
- Obtain advice and help for the business.
- Review and record the effectiveness of advice and help obtained.
Seek Advice and Help for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify where to get the best advice and help for the business.
- Obtain advice and help for the business.
- Check and record the advice and help obtained.
Select and prepare animals for breedingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select and prepare animals for breeding
- Use and maintain relevant equipment
- Promote, animal welfare and health and safety
- Understand how to prepare animals for breeding
- Understand the breeding of animals
- Understand relevant animal welfare and health and safety legislation
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
Select animals for trainingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select animals for training
- Understand how to select animals for training
Sell Products or Services using the InternetReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate requirements and opportunities for selling through the internet.
- Know what resources and systems are needed for setting up e-trading.
- Make plans for implementing an e-business.
- Understand how to monitor the progress of e-trading.
Sell over the counter medicines and treatments for the care of animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Sell over the counter medicines and treatments for animals
- Understand how to sell over the counter medicines and treatments for animals
Sub-Contract WorkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for sub-contracting work or services.
- Deal with sub-contractor failures to meet terms and conditions.
- Agree changes to terms and conditions with sub-contractors.
VAT Registration and ReturnsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why the business has decided to register for Value Added Tax (VAT).
- Understand how to use professional guidance in relation to VAT registration.
- Understand how to use VAT is used on purchases and sales.
- Prepare a VAT form
VAT Registration and ReturnsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand if the business needs to register for VAT.
- Understand when to seek professional help and where to find it.
- Understand how to prepare a VAT form on time.
Welcome, receive and care for visitors to sitesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Welcome and receive visitors
- Care for visitors
- Welcome and receive visitors
- Care for visitors
- Know the relevant health and safety procedures
Work the animal to achieve entertainment and education requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work animal to achieve entertainment and education requirements
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand why it is important for an animal in entertainment and education to achieve its requirements
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Work with others to improve customer serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Improve customer service by working with others
- Monitor their own performance when improving customer service
- Monitor joint performance when improving customer service
- Know and understand how to improve customer service with others
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Assess and plan dog grooming workAssess the suitability of new environments for the placement of animalsBidding for WorkBidding for WorkCare for animals after they have workedCarry Out Plans for a BusinessCarry out Banking for a BusinessCarry out Banking for a Business
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Animal Care (QCF)
- Assess and plan dog grooming work
- Assess the environmental impact of your business
- Contract for Business Premises
- Contribute to the fulfilment of the audio visual production requirements
- Develop and manage the animal health and welfare plans
- Dispatch animals to customers in a Home Office designated establishment
- Display livestock to potential buyers in livestock markets
- Evaluate and review a training programme for a performance horse Legacy
Where this can lead
Environmental Health Officer
Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a career with real impact and clear pathways for growth. We're looking for people who want to stick around, learn, and genuinely make a difference to our environmental performance. If that sounds like you, let's have a chat.
See the whole journey →Opens the roleEnvironmental Health OfficerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →
Showing 1 roles, drawn from 2 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
Assess and plan dog grooming workAssess the environmental impact of your businessContract for Business PremisesContribute to the fulfilment of the audio visual production requirementsDevelop and manage the animal health and welfare plansDispatch animals to customers in a Home Office designated establishmentDisplay livestock to potential buyers in livestock marketsEvaluate and review a training programme for a performance horse LegacyFacilitate mating of animals in a Home Office designated establishmentInterview witnesses to support precognitionMaintain the Health and Well-Being of Animals During TransportationPlan and control the movement of animalsPlan and manage animal conservationPlan and monitor the establishment and management of animal populationsPlan and release animals into their natural habitatPlan, manage and evaluate the provision of pet care servicesPrepare and pay wagesSelect horses and identify their suitability for specific purposes+2 more
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Animal Care (QCF)
96 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assess and plan dog grooming work
- Assess the suitability of new environments for the placement of animals
- Bidding for Work
- Care for animals after they have worked
- Carry Out Plans for a Business
- Carry out Banking for a Business
and 90 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.