WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS
(NOW THAT YOU'VE APPLIED FOR THE RR&T BADGE?)
IT'S UP TO YOU HOW LONG IT TAKES YOU TO GO THROUGH THE STEPS TO BE A WCB HOLDER. SOME DO IT ALL IN A WEEK, SOME OVER A FEW MONTHS...
KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT
Yourself and any unsupervised staff/volunteers/fosterers need to sit & pass the online KA. [You log onto a Zoom meeting and are then sent a link that opens up a multiple choice online Quiz, that you fill in & submit.]
[WE GET A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK THAT THE KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT IS NEVER AS SCARY AS EXPECTED (IT'S REALLY ALL VERY BASIC, PRACTICAL QUESTIONS. YOU DON'T ONLY GET ONE GO AT PASSING (ALTHOUGH YOU DO GET SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT QUESTIONS ON EACH GO). IT'S ALSO 100% CONFIDENTIAL... REHABBERS GET 3 GOES AT THE KA, THEN THEY MUST WAIT 3 MONTHS TO TAKE IT A 4TH TIME, ANOTHER 3 MONTHS TO TAKE IT A 5TH TIME AND THEN, SHOULD THEY STILL BE STRUGGLING, THEY WOULD BE ASKED TO WAIT 6 MONTHS - AND GIVEN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COURSES, TRAINING & RESEARCH TO HELP THEM TO IMPROVE THEIR KNOWLEDGE BASE - UNTIL THEY APPLY TO TAKE IT AGAIN.
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AS THE WCB IS ABOUT SUPPORTING EVERYONE UP TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD: IF A REHABBER IS AT ALL WORRIED ABOUT PASSING THE KA, THEY CAN ASK TO BE MENTORED BY ONE OF OUR CURRENT WCB HOLDERS, TO HELP THEM GAIN THE CONFIDENCE & KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY NEED TO PASS THE KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT.]
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DO THAT ON ONE OF OUR UPCOMING DATES OR ENTER ALTERNATIVES IN THE FORM TO DO THE KA ON YOUR OWN OR WITH YOUR STAFF/VOLUNTEERS, AS A GROUP.
VETERINARY VISIT
Once your unsupervised Staff/Volunteers/Fosterers have all passed the Knowledge Assessments, the next step is you organising your Vet (or a RVN who works with your Vet) to come round. [If you are struggling to find a supportive Vet Practice to do this, we will help you.]
(You can find a template letter to approach your Vet Practice with in the WCB Group in 'files' or contact us to ask for it. It is mandatory that you have the 'Vet Check Report Template' for your Vet/RVN to fill in as well as a pdf of important questions that your Vet/RVN will need to ask you about your premises - we will send you these documents when you have passed your KA - as that is proving to be a great way to help your Vet/RVN fill out a thorough report and know what to look for and ask questions about).
IF YOU ARE A 'CENTRE'
Your Vet/RVN needs to walk around with you (either in person or on a video call with you) and go through the Vet Report and fill it out and then email it over to us at alana@wildlifecarebadge.com
IF YOU ARE A 'HUB'
Your Vet/RVN needs to walk around with you at your main central base (either in person or on a video call with you) and go through the Vet Report and fill it out and then email it over to us at alana@wildlifecarebadge.com.
If you are a 'Hub' and outsource ANY (even one or two) wildlife casualties to off site Fosterers, you will ALSO need to collect and show your Vet/RVN - preferably on the day of their visit/video call for the Vet Check - pics of your Fosterers' premises, proven to be taken within the last month, by having either a dated newspaper in the pics or a phone with a dated news report in the pics, for them to also ok.
YOU GET YOUR BADGE!
The day that you 'pass' your Veterinary visit (for want of a better word) you receive your WCB Badge, woohoo! This will mean that you go on the WCB website - on this PAGE - and that you get sent a high resolution digital badge that you can put on your social media and your website. You also get posted a sticker to put up in your premises. As a WCB Holder, you get immediate access to all of the free BENEFITS, from applying for grants to transport support & free ongoing training.
From that date, you have a full year until you need to renew.
ONGOING ACCOUNTABILITY
Quarterly accountability is submitted every January, April, July & October.
What is required for accountability?
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To keep being a WCB Holder is also simple: every quarter I - Alana (Founder) - jump on an 'accountability check in' video call for 5 minutes with each WCB Holder (at a time that is convenient for them) and they show me bits of record keeping/paperwork…
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Quite often WCB Holder have paper files, rather than digital files, so during the call… They hold up Admission Records to the camera - hiding GDPR sensitive bits - or send me their Admission Spreadsheets, to show me that they’re keeping them. Then they hold up a treatment plan for me to see for an animal they have in - Eg. showing weights, medication dosages, maybe trips to the Vet etc (anything that might be relevant to the casualty’s care).
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Finally, they then show me proof of working with a Vet at least once that quarter: this could be showing me an invoice from the Vets or often WCB Holders hold up medication bottles with dated prescription labels on, to the camera.
And that’s it. We get a lot of feedback about how straightforward it all is.