Due to continuing high demand, in September 2016 The College of Animal Welfare will be running two, Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing, day release programmes from our centres in Huntingdon, Potters Bar and Leeds. This means that veterinary practices will, subject to availability, be able to choose which day their student attends college from the following days:
Huntingdon: Monday or Wednesday
Potters Bar: Monday or Tuesday
Leeds: Monday or Tuesday
As the largest provider of veterinary nurse training in the UK, the College is committed to providing learning opportunities for the promotion of animal welfare. As a result we welcome the increase in demand as an indication that more practices are seeing the benefit of training their own veterinary nurses. Karen Davidson, Vice Principal Academic at the College, said: “We are delighted to be seeing a continual increase in demand from veterinary practices for apprenticeship training. We hope that our decision to run two day release programmes will provide further flexibility for both our employers and students.”
For veterinary practices who are not currently involved in veterinary nurse training, but would like to find out more about how they can get involved; the College can help with either recruiting a new veterinary nursing apprentice or sourcing a unpaid placement student, all completely free of charge. We may even be able to offer free Training Practice approval to eligible practices! Furthermore, employers who take on a new apprentice veterinary nurse may be able to receive a £1,500 grant.
Applications for our September 2016 courses are now open and filling up fast. For more information on veterinary nurse training please visit www.caw.ac.uk or call the College on 01480 422060.