We have 16 dual professional tutors that span over the small animal (level 2 and 3) and equine awards here at BGT. All tutors are experienced registered veterinary nurses, of which some are still working within practice.
Our tutors have a vast expanse of clinical and professional knowledge, with certificates held for example, in ECC and Anaesthesia as well as those holding OSCE examiner status.
Tutors deliver a wide range of subject areas which include:
Anatomy & Physiology
Animal Health & Welfare
Infection Control
Diagnostic Imaging
Professionalism and Ethics
Operating Theatre Practice
To name just a few….!

The tutoring team are skilled in delivering lessons to a diverse range of needs and abilities in addition to ensuring the wider curricular activities are effectively embedded in order to nurture and develop the next generation of highly skilled professional Registered Veterinary Nurses.

STAFF:  Louise Smith, Fiona Knox and Dan Pearson

Whether working to achieve Functional Skills as part of the VN apprenticeships or taking them as standalone qualifications to improve your current literacy and numeracy skills, our dedicated, highly qualified, and subject specialist functional skills team will support you all the way. With one-to-one support, the course can fit around you.
Tony and Louise also form part of our outstanding additional learning support team and their knowledge of supporting those with learning needs is exemplary.

The role of the Liaison Team is to support the apprentice with all aspects of the apprenticeship journey, from practical advice relating to the workplace, on programme support, through to information, advise and guidance on personal factors areas potentially affecting the apprentice achieving their qualification. Liaison Officers visit apprentices in the workplace or at college every 10 weeks to ensure progression and support is always being maintained, it is also a great opportunity to catch up with the practice to get their valuable input into how the apprentice is getting on too.

The Liaison team are all qualified veterinary nurses and are incredibly helpful and passionate about developing the next generation of veterinary nurses, they share a wealth of experience and skills from a variety of veterinary environments and have a very diverse skillset and areas of specialism.
Each apprentice is assigned a Liaison Officer, and where possible, the apprentice will have the same Liaison Officer for their entire apprenticeship, building a strong relationship, not only with the apprentice, but the practice too.

The Internal Quality Assurance team offers support and guidance to the training practice in relation to the delivery of training for the Level 3 diploma in Veterinary Nursing for both small animal and equine practice in the following ways:

• Carry out Training Practice Approval Visits – to approve a veterinary practice to deliver training for the Level 3 award in small animal and equine veterinary nursing.
• Carry out Training Practice Monitoring Visits – an annual visit to ensure that a training practice maintains the standards required to be a registered training practice.
• Provide Clinical Coach training to RVN’s and MRCVS’s to enable them to support student veterinary nurses in practice.
• Provide Clinical Coach Standardisation events for clinical coaches to enable them to remain active in the role.
• Carry out regular practice visits to offer support and guidance to the Practice Principal, Clinical Coach and Student Veterinary Nurse in all aspects of Training Practice requirements and on-line portfolio completion.
• Carry out CSL audits to ensure that cases used for training are authentic.
• Carry out student performance observations to ensure standard and correct levels of training are being provided by the Training Practice.
• Carry out CSL reviews to ensure that progress is being maintained and that correct and thorough completion is being achieved.

A team member will visit a student and their clinical coach in practice at least twice per year with extra visits carried out where further support is needed.  Each practice supporting students at Bottle Green Training will have a monitoring visit carried out annually to ensure that the Training Practice is maintaining the necessary requirements and that training needs can be fulfilled as required.

The role of the Funding team is to ensure government funding for each apprentice is accessed and maintained for the duration of the apprenticeship. This is done by maintaining and uploading monthly reports to the ESFA; making amendments on the database as they occur such as changes to the workplace or breaks in learning; and importantly checking all paperwork is fully in place and compliant to the Funding Rules, thereby ensuring funding can be maintained, and this paperwork is robust for audit purposes.

The Funding team have worked within apprenticeships and funding for a number of years and have a great deal of experience with this field, ensuring quality is maintained not only for Bottle Green Training, but importantly for the employer and the apprentice too, as all parties work very closely together to ensure the apprentice achieves their qualification.
A key part of ensuring funding is maintained is the close relationship that the Liaison team have with both practices and the apprentices as part of their 10 weekly visits; so formally the Liaison team also form part of the Funding team too.

Administration, Marketing & Enrolment

College administration involves working with applicants, apprentices and training practices, internal and external bodies to ensure your experience with BGT is efficient and trouble free. We feel very strongly about transparency and will support you at all stages and with any queries you may have. This is evident in existing strong relationships with practices and current and past learners alike. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Ensure standards and procedures are always upheld.
• Triage incoming queries and manage, signpost, or refer as required.
• Liaise with legislative, awarding and EPA organisations.
• Apprentice administration from application through to certification and maintain learner records throughout their journey.
• Support training practices from approval and throughout their apprentice’s journey with BGT.
• Maintaining social media pages and updating website to ensure information is accurate. Posts include course information, CPD events, vacancies from practices and celebrating success at every stage is very important and we enjoy recognising our learner’s success on our members only Facebook page, whether it be current learners or life-stories from past apprentices who have travelled far and wide and are doing amazing things since qualifying.