Kennel Hand Career Assessment

Provides routine care for dogs, including feeding, exercising, monitoring their health and cleaning kennels.

Teaching animals to obey verbal and non-verbal commands and addressing behavioural problems
Training animals to accept riders and pull vehicles
Training animals to perform in competitions
Bathing, cutting, combing, blow-drying and styling pets' coats, clipping their nails and cleaning their ears
Inspecting, preparing, cleaning, disinfecting and maintaining comfortable animal cages and enclosures
Transporting food, filling water troughs and feeding animals according to their individual needs
Maintaining animal health records, treating minor injuries and reporting serious conditions to Veterinarians
Exercising and playing with animals, answering visitor questions, and transferring animals between enclosures by leading or carrying them
Dusting and spraying insecticides on animals and immersing them in insecticide baths, to control insect pests

Types of visas you can apply for

494 - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) (subclass 494) - Employer sponsored stream
187 - Regional Sponsor Migration Scheme (subclass 187)

VETASSES group D

Skills Assessment Requirements
1. Applicants are required to have academic qualifications related to the nominated position PhD / Bachelor (including Honours Bachelor and Master) / Diploma completed in Australia / Australian Level 3 Certificate - AQFⅢ/Ⅳ compeleted in Australia 52 weeks of study time in Australia
Work requirements
1. Applicants are required to have: at least 104 weeks of post-graduation work experience in Australia related to the nominated position
1.  a qualification assessed in AQF Certificate IV with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years; or no highly relevant field of study and at least two years of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years; or  a qualification assessed in AQF Certificate III with a highly relevant field of study and at least three years of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years;
Assessment Agency
VETASSES