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Chef Apprenticeship
Location: Toby Carvery - Stonebridge Island - Coventry, Coventry Road (CV7 7HL)
Closing Date: 27 days from now (Tuesday 27 October 2026)
Posted on: 29 September 2026
Wage: £16,926 a year
Training:
- Course: Production chef (level 2)
- Hours: Shift work including bank holidays, evenings, and weekends. Exact shifts to be confirmed. 30 hours a week.
- Start date: Tuesday 3 November 2026
- Duration: 1 year 3 months
- Positions available: 2
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.
- Participate and contribute to team meetings, offering valuable insights.
- Prepare, cook, and present food quickly, safely, and efficiently to brand standards.
- Handle guest queries and complaints promptly and professionally.
- Ensure cleanliness and tidiness of the kitchen and back-of-house areas with great attention to detail.
- Set up and close down the department, including stock rotation and prep and par processes.
- 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.
- Complete all appropriate documentation, due diligence records, daily, and weekly cleaning tasks.
Training Details:
- Delivered through work-based training with a mixture of face-to-face sessions and remote Team calls with your Lifetime Learner Coach every 6 weeks.
- Mentor within the workplace to support you.
- Obtain Functional Skills in English and Maths (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.
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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.
- 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 the 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 maximize yield.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines, and procedures.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion legislation and organizational 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 (grade None required)
About this employer: You already know Mitchells & Butlers, even if you don't realize it! We're the leading restaurant and pub company in the UK with over 1,600 businesses, including famous restaurant and pub brands such as All Bar One, Toby Carvery, Harvester, and Browns. Wherever you turn, you're sure to find a warm Mitchells & Butlers welcome that makes you feel right at home. Website
Contact for this apprenticeship:
- Training provider: LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
- Email: recruitment@lifetimetraining.co.uk
- Phone: 0117 301 7160
- Reference code: VAC2000056151
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