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You don't need to be a Michelin-starred pro just yet, that’s what the apprenticeship is for. We are looking for someone who is eager to learn, take feedback well, and ask questions. You’ll be right in the thick of it, learning from seasoned chefs who are dedicated to high standards and fresh ingredients.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Responsibilities
- Mastering the Basics: Learning professional knife skills, food safety, and prep techniques
- Service Support: Assisting the team during busy lunch and dinner shifts
- Flavour Building: Helping to prepare sauces, stocks, and garnishes from scratch
- Kitchen Discipline: Maintaining a clean, organised, and efficient workstation
- Growth: Working toward a formal apprenticeship standard
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Requirements
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Desirable qualifications:
- GCSE in: English (grade 9-4 / A*-C / Level 2)
- GCSE in: Maths (grade 9-4 / A*-C / Level 2)
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Skills:
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Reliability: You show up!
- A "Sponge" mentality
- Team Spirit!
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Other requirements:
- Due to the location of the organisation, you will need to consider how you are going to get there, as it is not on a bus route
- Access to your own vehicle would be a great advantage
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Benefits
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Staff meals on shift and discounts across our partner venues
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Career Progression:
- We love promoting from within; show us what you’ve got, and you’ll move up the ranks
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Application Process
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Training provider: BISHOP AUCKLAND COLLEGE
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Training course: Production chef (level 2)
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What you'll learn:
- Course contents:
- Prepare and cook pre-portioned fresh and frozen meat, fish, and poultry to business standards.
- Prepare and cook fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables to business standards.
- Prepare salad vegetables to business standards.
- Cook poached, simmered, steamed, boiled, braised, stewed, baked, grilled, and fried dishes.
- Regenerate dried and frozen ingredients and dishes.
- Undertake stock control, storage, and rotation.
- Communicate professionally with colleagues, line managers, stakeholders, and customers.
- Work as part of a team to support service delivery.
- Follow specifications to produce, portion, and present food.
- Manage own time to ensure allocated tasks are completed.
- Use techniques for maintaining good mental health and wellbeing to support self and others, including asking for for help with daily tasks.
- Use feedback to improve own performance.
- Prepare and close down an area for service.
- Use problem solving techniques to resolve routine and non-routine issues within scope of own role.
- Maintain prep and par levels according to business need.
- Clean and maintain manual and electrical food-preparation and cooking tools, equipment, and technology.
- Follow standard operating procedures to select and safely use appropriate knives and boards for the task, for example red handled knife and red board for raw meat.
- Monitor and record food temperatures and manage allergens during preparation, cooking, holding, and serving.
- Apply hygiene management techniques to maintain a safe clean work environment, for example COSHH, personal hygiene, and uniform.
- Reduce the waste of resources, acting to measure and reduce plate waste, exercise portion control, and maximise yield.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures, including stress management.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion legislation and organisational policies.
- Deliver to key performance indicators to support the production, performance, and budget within own area of responsibility.
- Use manual and electrical food-preparation and cooking tools, equipment, machinery, and technology.
- Course contents:
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Training schedule:
- You will have monthly tutor visits to the workplace, and you will be allocated 6 hours of study time per week during working hours
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More training information:
- Working in a kitchen can be hard work yet very rewarding. You will be on your feet all day and must not be afraid to help out with all kitchen duties
About Foxhall Cottage
Set in the beautiful countryside North Yorkshire, prime gateway location to the Yorkshire Dales, the Fox Hall Inn has recently under gone an extensive stylish refurbishment and change of ownership. Without losing the traditional country pub feel, we also offer an exquisite dining experience. Enjoy an array of freshly cooked dishes in one of our many dining areas, including on the patio overlooking the spectacular views of the Yorkshire Dales.
Contact
- BISHOP AUCKLAND COLLEGE
- David Brough
- david.brough@bacoll.ac.uk
- 01388 743164
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000032519.
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