Senior Keeper

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Areas Of Interest:   Animals - Farm, Domestic & Wildlife
Certificate Level:  Certificate IV
Certificate Name:  Certificate IV in Captive Animals
Certificate Description:  Employees may work in a zoo or wildlife park as a more experienced keeper performing a wide range of animal care activities such as preparing and designing animal diets, managing the organisation’s animal collection and preparing and maintaining housing, enclosures and exhibits.
Code:  ACM40217
Work Type:  Analytic & Scientific Nature & Recreation

Skills & Knowledge you will learn

Work within a captive animal facility
Prepare and present information to the public
Support collection management
Prepare and maintain animal housing
Assist with capturing, restraining and moving animals
Monitor animal reproduction
Maintain and monitor animal health and wellbeing
Provide enrichment for animals
Plan for and provide nutritional requirements for animals
Manage enclosures and exhibits
Develop, monitor and review behavioural management strategies
Maintain work health and safety processes
Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace
Design and evaluate interpretive and learning programs
Assist in establishing and maintaining a plantation
Develop animal diets
Develop and monitor collection management
Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
Provide basic care of mammals
Contribute to enclosure and exhibit design or renovation projects