08 February 2024

National Apprenticeship Week: Charlotte and Beth, Animal Care and Welfare

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As part of celebrating #ApprenticeshipWeek at Redwings we caught up with Charlotte Holt and Beth Keeler who both completed their Animal Care and Welfare Assistant Level 2 apprenticeships recently.

They’ve both worked at Redwings for just over two years and their roles include a variety of daily tasks, from checking on all the residents to make sure they are well, making up feeds and delivering forage (hay and haylage) to our horses and ponies amongst many other things.

Apprenticeships require students to have access to several hours of study time whilst at work each week. This can be challenging when working in a busy farm environment but Beth says, “It wasn't too bad to manage as we had a routine here of usually having our apprenticeship study days on a Wednesday, which is a day our site is generally fully staffed. Our Team Leaders were really supportive and we could always go to them and ask them if we needed some more time to complete a project, plus because three of us on the team were working towards the apprenticeship at the same time we could support each other too.”

The apprenticeship also requires students to complete a set amount of off the job hours which often include shadowing other members of staff and departments. Charlotte says, “We got to go to the Redwings Behaviour Centre for some of our off the job hours, which is a specialist site that works with our Sanctuary residents who have behavioural issues. Seeing the training done with the residents there was really interesting. Some of our projects covered training ponies who were needle shy or were not good with having their legs handled too. We both really enjoyed those projects and would love to do more behaviour work in the future if the opportunity arose.”

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