How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Institute of Animal Technology has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Institute of Animal Technology awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Institute of Animal Technology.
Advancing knowledge and promote excellence in the care and welfare of animals in science and to enhance the standards and status of those professionally
These are the units Institute of Animal Technology 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Institute of Animal Technology. It does the teaching and the mapping. Institute of Animal Technology sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Housing and routines for laboratory animals Real unit · Institute of Animal Technology
What you'll be able to do
- Identify animals using a range of recognised techniques
- Estimate the age of a juvenile animal without knowing its date of birth
- Estimate the age of an adult animal without knowing its date of birth
- Prepare accommodation for animals, ensuring it meets their specific needs
- Maintain accommodation for animals, ensuring it remains suitable for their needs
- Protect the integrity of barrier maintained accommodation, following appropriate protocols
- Maintain accurate records relating to animal housing and routines
- Receive information within the workplace, ensuring accurate understanding
- Transmit information within the workplace, ensuring clarity and accuracy
- Store information within the workplace, adhering to organisational procedures
Maintain and develop personal performance Real unit · Institute of Animal Technology
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain personal performance in the workplace
- Develop personal performance to meet required standards
- Develop personal performance to meet future needs
Maintaining laboratory animal health and husbandry Real unit · Institute of Animal Technology
What you'll be able to do
- Promote the health and welfare of animals through thorough health checks
- Maintain the health and welfare of animals through thorough health checks
- Plan for handling animals, considering their species and individual needs
- Plan for restraining animals, considering their species and individual needs
- Handle animals for a range of procedures, using appropriate techniques
- Restrain animals for a range of procedures, using appropriate techniques
- Identify the sex of animals, using recognised methods
- Select relevant equipment for animal handling and health checks
- Use relevant equipment for animal handling and health checks safely and effectively
- Maintain relevant equipment for animal handling and health checks in good working order
- Work safely when handling and restraining animals
- Comply with organisational policies and procedures when handling and restraining animals
- Comply with any legislative requirements when handling and restraining animals
Monitoring and maintaining health and safety Real unit · Institute of Animal Technology
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health, safety and security in the workplace
- Use equipment and materials safely in the workplace
- Know the systems and procedures for maintaining health, safety and security in the workplace
- Understand why equipment is transported and stored safely
- Know the reason for following manufacturers’ guidance when using equipment and materials
- Maintain good standards of health and safety for self and for others in the workplace
- Understand how to maintain the health and safety of self and others in the workplace
- Know the safe lifting techniques to use in the workplace
- Maintain health and safety in the workplace
Nutrition for laboratory animals Real unit · Institute of Animal Technology
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare feed for animals, following specific dietary requirements
- Provide feed to animals, ensuring appropriate quantities and timing
- Provide water to animals, ensuring constant access to fresh, clean water
- Store diet appropriately, maintaining its quality and preventing contamination
- Select relevant equipment for feeding and watering animals
- Use relevant equipment for feeding and watering animals safely and effectively
- Maintain relevant equipment for feeding and watering animals in good working order
- Work safely when preparing and providing feed and water to animals
- Minimise environmental damage when preparing and providing feed and water to animals
Promote and maintain the health and well-being of animals Real unit · Institute of Animal Technology
What you'll be able to do
- Promote and maintain the health and welfare of animals
- Work safely in an animal care environment
- Maintain accurate records relating to animal health and welfare
- Promote and maintain the health and welfare of animals in accordance with relevant guidelines
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice within an animal care setting
- Maintain accurate records relating to animal health and welfare
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Administer substances to animals in a Home Office designated establishment
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Care for animals during gestation and parturition in a Home Office designated establishment
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Care for mothers and young animals in a Home Office designated establishment
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Collect samples from animals in a Home Office designated establishment
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Maintain and develop personal performance
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Maintain the health and welfare of animals
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Maintain the health and welfare of animals under supervision and instruction
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Observe and monitor animal behaviour in a Home Office designated establishment
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Perform basic laboratory activities in a Home Office designated establishment
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Planning in vivo toxicity studies
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Prepare anaesthetic equipment and materials to anaesthetise animals in a Home Office designated establishment
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Prepare animals for anaesthesia in a Home Office designated establishment
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Prepare environments for scientific procedures in a Home Office designated establishment
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Promote and maintain the health and welfare of animals in a Home Office designated establishment
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Protect the integrity of barrier maintained animal accommodation in a Home Office designated establishment
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Provide information to individuals, groups or communities on how to promote the health and well-being of animals
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Recover animals from anaesthesia in a Home Office designated establishment
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Support others in the conduct of general procedures on animals in a Home Office designated establishment
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Institute of Animal Technology rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Housing and routines for laboratory animalsMaintain and develop personal performanceMaintaining laboratory animal health and husbandryMonitoring and maintaining health and safetyNutrition for laboratory animalsPromote and maintain the health and well-being of animals
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration - Map a live decision Analyse
“Monitoring and maintaining health and safety” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Administer substances to animals in a Home Office designated establishment
- Care for animals during gestation and parturition in a Home Office designated establishment
- Care for mothers and young animals in a Home Office designated establishment
- Collect samples from animals in a Home Office designated establishment
- Maintain and develop personal performance
- Maintain the health and welfare of animals
- Maintain the health and welfare of animals under supervision and instruction
- Observe and monitor animal behaviour in a Home Office designated establishment
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Housing and routines for laboratory animals, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will develop skills to identify, age and provide appropriate housing for labouratory animals. The unit includes maintaining barrier environments and routines to ensure animal welfare and environmental integrity.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for IAT Level 2 Diploma In Work Based Animal Technology
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Institute of Animal Technology.
- Housing and routines for laboratory animals
- Maintain and develop personal performance
- Maintaining laboratory animal health and husbandry
- Monitoring and maintaining health and safety
- Nutrition for laboratory animals
- Promote and maintain the health and well-being of animals
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