Service Dog Apprentice Trainer

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Use your dog training experience to help a child with autism! At Good Dog! Service Canines, we like to invest in our trainers! We provide dog trainers, who have little to no autism service dog training experience, with the tools, skills and knowledge necessary to fully train a service dog from puppy to a graduate! After the Apprentice Trainer graduates their first service dog, they may be selected as a paid trainer!

Benefits:

• Acquire skills, knowledge and experience needed to be a service dog trainer
• Become a member of our team where trainers collaborate, give advice and ask questions on all things related to service dog training
• Work from home with the option of travel
• Provided with all training supplies and a monthly stipend to cover care & training costs

Duties Include:

• Raise and train a puppy to become a service dog with the help of our Lead Trainer
• Responsible for board and care, training, socializing and de-sensitizing of a puppy
• Reporting: weekly calls with our Lead Trainer, submit videos of progress and fill out a training log

• Previous dog training experience or a degree from Bergin University of Canine Studies
• Must have the time & life set-up to work with the pup everyday & take it with you most places you go
• Must have regular access to the internet and a video camera.
• Must be comfortable communicating virtually over the phone, email, and video conference
• Please no dogs under 2 and no children under 6 in the household

Apprentice trainers may work remotely; however, must be comfortable communicating virtually including weekly phone calls, filling in an online training log, and submitting training videos virtually. Expect to spend at least 3 hours a week attending obedience training classes, filling in the training log, and checking in over the phone with the lead trainer, in addition to time spent working with the dog.

Apprentice trainers that successfully complete the requirements of the Good Dog! Service Canines apprentice trainer program may be selected to become paid trainers with Good Dog! Service Canines. Successfully attending and completing this apprentice trainer program does not signify that the attendee is a service/assistance dog trainer or qualified to train and/or place service/assistance dogs. Assistance Dogs International has specific standards that an individual must meet in order to be an assistance dog trainer - and taking part in this class does not meet these requirements.