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At Farmhouse Inns, we're all about bringing you delicious food and drink for every taste, every occasion... and every appetite! From midweek dinners to Sunday lunches, you'll always find quality dishes and great value at Farmhouse Inns. We're passionate about creating a pub dining experience that feels like home.
Wage
£17,082 a year
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Training course
Production chef (level 2)
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Hours
30 hours per working week - Exact shifts to be confirmed.
Start date
Monday 14 September 2026
Duration
1 year 3 months
Positions available
2
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As an Apprentice Chef with Farmhouse Inns, your passion for all things food, and the desire to make the perfect dish every time, is what sets you apart. With a keen eye for maintaining the highest standards and thriving during a fast-paced service, you'll soon become an invaluable member of the kitchen team.
At Farmhouse Inns, we're all about bringing you delicious food and drink for every taste, every occasion... and every appetite! From midweek dinners to Sunday lunches, you'll always find quality dishes and great value at Farmhouse Inns. We're passionate about creating a pub dining experience that feels like home. What sets us apart is our commitment to quality and value.
As an Apprentice Chef, you will...
- Prepare, cook, and present food that meets specs and customer expectations.
- Maintain hygiene levels and safety regulations in the kitchen to help guarantee the safety of your entire team and visitors.
- Communicate clearly with your team in order to provide high-quality meals to customers on time.
- Keep up to date with new products, menus, and promotions.
We're all about rewarding our team's hard work. That's why you will benefit from...
- Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
- Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
- Enhanced, family-friendly maternity and paternity policies.
- Menopause Friendly Employer.
- Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
- Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn up to £1,500 for referring them!
- Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
- Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with Three Mobile along with many more...
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What your apprenticeship includes:
You won't need to attend college. Our apprenticeships are delivered through work-based training which includes a mixture of face-to-face sessions and remote Team calls with your Lifetime Learner Coach every 6 weeks. You will also have a mentor within the workplace to support you.
- Obtain Functional Skills in English and Maths, with support tailored to your needs (if you don't already have GCSE or equivalents).
- Reviews every 12 weeks with the Apprentice, Line Manager and Lifetime Learner Coach including feedback sessions.
Alongside working full time as an Apprentice Chef, you will also be joining our unique Chef Academy, where you will have the opportunity to attend four masterclasses designed to teach you expert knowledge and technical skills involved in 4 different areas of cooking.
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We aim to embed inclusion into every decision we make – across our people, customers, communities, suppliers, and operations. We want to create a culture where everyone feels welcome, valued, and able to thrive.
Where you'll work
Springwood Avenue
L25 7UN
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
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 and giving 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.


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Training schedule
Chef Academy Production Chef L2, including Functional Skills in Maths and English.
Desirable qualifications
None required (grade None required)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team Working
- Organisation Skills
Other requirements
The key dates are to be used as a guide only. Should the right candidate be found, this vacancy may close early.
Greene King is the country's leading pub retailer and brewer, running 2600 pubs, restaurants and hotels across England, Wales and Scotland.
https://www.farmhouseinns.co.uk/pubs/merseyside/allerton-hall-farm/ (opens in new tab)
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With Greene King and Lifetime Training, you will have the chance to further your career across our well-known brands - as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
recruitment@lifetimetraining.co.uk
01173143016
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000044675.
Closes on Monday 7 September 2026
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