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Chef Apprenticeship
Location: Toby Carvery - Wickford - Runwell Runwell Road (SS11 7QJ)
Closing Date: 27 days (Tuesday 27 October 2026)
Posted on: 29 September 2026
Wage: £16,926 a year
Summary
Join us at Toby Carvery, the home of the roast, where every day is a Sunday! Think perfectly ruffled potatoes, giant homemade Yorkies and pigs in blankets all year round. If you love Yorkies as much as we do, we want to hear from you!
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Responsibilities:
- Have open communication with the entire team to ensure the delivery of outstanding food and service, promoting a supportive atmosphere where you assist other team members whenever possible.
- Participate and contribute to team meetings, offering your valuable insights.
- Prepare, cook and present food quickly, safely and efficiently to brand standard.
- Ensure any guest queries and complaints are handled promptly and professionally.
- Ensure cleanliness and tidiness of the kitchen and back of house areas with great attention to detail.
- Set up and closedown the department including stock rotation and prep and par process.
- Keep up to date with business information, promotions and new products.
- Participate in all in-house training, e-learning and the completion of assigned learning modules.
- Always adhere to brand standards, licensing laws and all company policies and procedures.
- Completing all appropriate documentation, due diligence records, daily and weekly cleaning tasks
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Course: Production chef (level 2)
Training Provider: LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
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What you'll learn:
- 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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Requirements
Desirable Qualifications: None required
Skills: Team Working, Organisation Skills
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
You already know Mitchells & Butlers, even if you don't realise it! That's because we run many of the UK's most famous restaurant and pub brands, including: All Bar One, Sizzling Pubs, Vintage Inns, Harvester, Ember Inns, Toby Carvery, Crown Carveries, Castle, Nicholson's, Premium Country Dining Group, O'Neill's, Alex, Village Pub & Kitchen, Miller & Carter, Browns, Innkeeper's Lodge, Orchid Pubs and The Oak Tree.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay. Ongoing support and development.
Contact for this apprenticeship:
- Company: LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
- Email: recruitment@lifetimetraining.co.uk
- Phone: 0117 301 7160
- Reference Code: VAC2000056142
Apply now: Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 27 October 2026)
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