Apprentice Animal Keeper - Northumberland College

Northumberland College has two main campuses at Ashington and Kirkley Hall and centres at Hexham and Berwick.

We offer hundreds of full-time and part-time courses, work with students aged 14-18, mature students, higher education students and employers from numerous industry sectors.

Northumberland College is fully committed to improving the quality of service and provision to our students and in order to achieve this we encourage continuing professional development and improvement at all levels.

Northumberland College has a rural campus based at Kirkley Hall near Ponteland. Land Based curriculum is based here and includes an Animal Management section. Animal Management includes the Animal Management Centre which is a relatively modern building with land front and back to house the animal centre. Contained within the building are four classrooms, toilets and rooms dedicated to exotics, post mortem, rodents etc

The vision of the college is to develop the Animal Management Centre by expanding the variety of animals housed, the standard of animal accommodation, the working practices also to have a dual role as a first class learning resource and visitor attraction.

Northumberland College is fully committed to:

• ‘Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment’
• ‘equality & diversity and inclusion for students, employers, the communities it serves, staff, governors and customers who come into contact with the College’