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Apprentice Kitchen Assistant
Location: Oaklands Hotel (Chester), 93 Hoole Road, Chester, CH2 3NB
Closing date: 26 days from today (Tuesday 27 October 2026)
Posted on: 29 September 2026
Wage: £11,388 a year
Summary
The Oaklands Hotel is a stunning family-friendly pub restaurant in the charming Roman fortress city of Chester. Considering this picturesque area is renowned for its dynamic atmosphere and stunning historical architecture, The Oaklands Hotel fits right in! Ideal for an activity-packed family getaway or a relaxing, romantic retreat.
Work
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 Hungry Horse, 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.
Amazing food, live sport, sun-drenched beer gardens and play areas for the kids: just a few things that make our Hungry Horse pubs so special. And with over 200 locations across the country, we've got sizzling steaks, to Sunday roasts and the perfect line-up of drinks to match. We know that coming to a pub's a treat. But it doesn't have to be a rare one. The goal behind our family pubs is to feed the whole gang for less.
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.
Benefits
- Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands.
- Free employee assistance program - mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support.
- 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.
- Refer a friend - earn up to £1,500 for referring someone who gets placed.
- Wagestream - access your wage before payday for when life happens.
- Retail discounts - up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with Three Mobile, and more.
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Training
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Training course
Production chef (level 2)
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Requirements
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
Other requirements: The closing date is just a guide, if a suitable candidate is found before the closing date, then the vacancy may close early.
About this employer
The Oaklands Hotel is a stunning family-friendly pub restaurant in the charming Roman fortress city of Chester. Considering this picturesque area is renowned for its dynamic atmosphere and stunning historical architecture, The Oaklands Hotel fits right in! Ideal for an activity-packed family getaway or a relaxing, romantic retreat, we have every base covered.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
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.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Email: recruitment@lifetimetraining.co.uk
Phone: 0117 301 7160
Reference code: VAC2000056132
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