Apprenticeships - Level 2 Production Chef Apprenticeship

These employer approved qualifications provide quality employability skills for the hospitality sector. Specifically, this qualification will you the knowledge, understanding and skills to work in a professional cooking environment as a production chef.

This qualification is ideal for someone wishing to further their career within the hospitality industry, developing existing skills by gaining a formal qualification potentially improving their employability.

Production Chefs:

• Maintain excellent standards of personal, food and kitchen hygiene
• Ensure compliance to procedures, menu specifications and recipes
• Produce food meeting portion controls, and budgetary constraints
• Adapting and produce dishes to meet special dietary, religious and allergenic requirements
• Adhere to food safety regulations and legislation, and undertake due diligence
• Use specialist kitchen equipment
• Communicate internally and externally with customers and colleagues
• Commit to personal development activities

You will work with an assessor who will guide you through your programme of learning to produce a portfolio of evidence using e-portfolio, within your workplace. This study will sit alongside your employment.

Your study will cover three main areas, Knowledge and Understanding (Know it), Skills (Show it) and Behaviours (Live it).

You will work on kitchen operations, all elements of food preparation and cooking cover areas such as, Meat, Poultry, Vegetables, Fish, Hot and Cold Desserts.

You will also cover:

• Nutrition
• Legal Requirements
• Business and Commercial aspects
• Personal Development and Performance

You will be assessed by the following methods:

Professional Discussion(interview style) Observation of practice.

All these elements are combined to be called End Point Assessment.

A pre-entry interview will be required and will assess your ability to manage the course.

Entry requirements are set by employers

Apprentices without Level 1 English and Maths will need to achieve Level 1.

For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement the apprenticeships English and Maths minimum requirement is Entry Level 3 and British Sign Language qualifications are an alternative to English qualifications for whom this is their primary language.

Commis Chef Apprenticeship