Thinking about work with injured native animals? Sick and hurt wildlife, and how to treat them. A way in for people already volunteering.
Health signs, diseases and treatments, taught in plain terms.
Marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles and marine animals.
Rehabilitation has its own place in the course.
Three things worth knowing.
Clinic care and native wildlife sit in one enrolment.
Welfare duty of care opens the course, before anything else.
Suits people already helping at a rescue or shelter.
A provider certificate, not nationally recognised training
Handed over by the provider at the end.
Shows the standard you reached in the work.
Both modules listed unit by unit.
Tell us where you want to volunteer or work.
An advisor covers the units and the fees.
Weekly plan if eligible, or pay upfront.
Enrol and open the duty of care unit.
You finish with a provider certificate and a unit transcript. It is not nationally recognised, so no national code applies. An advisor can show you accredited animal care options.
It gives you the health and species knowledge first. Vet nursing itself needs accredited study. An advisor can point you at those courses.
A Certificate of Completion, a Certificate of Attainment and a transcript.
Marsupials, placentals, monotremes, birds, marine species, amphibians and reptiles.
From $35 a week on a flexible plan.
Twelve months of access, with no set deadlines.
A computer and reliable internet. A device can be provided.
The provider will speak with your guardian first.
My Learning Online is an Australian online provider. Tutors answer six days a week and help continues after you finish.
Course content is open at any hour. That suits shift work and rescue callouts.
The next animal that comes in could be yours to help.