Senior culinary chef - level 4 apprenticeship

Senior culinary chefs research, responsibly source, develop and launch products to meet specification briefs in line with the organisation's vision, values and objectives.

They also:

• Maintain high culinary standards
• Oversee all food preparation and presentation to ensure quality and standards
• Order and maintain the inventory of food and supplies for developed dishes/menus
• Maintain compliance and due diligence documentation within the food safety management system to ensure a safe and hygienic kitchen
• Monitor food and equipment suppliers
• Develop recipes from scratch or the brief
• Determine the best presentation and packaging of food
• Maintain or raise the profit margins on food
• Identify and coordinate training opportunities for staff

Is this the right programme?  

There is a significant leadership element to this role. Your chef should already have experience in the kitchen and feel comfortable leading and developing teams, show organisational and communication skills, and have excellent knowledge of food and kitchen health and safe practices.

This is a level 4, 18-month programme plus a gateway (EPA) of up to two months.

All our culinary apprentices are mentored by one of our top chefs to make sure they are fully prepared for their end-point assessment (EPA).

How it works:

• Apprentices receive theory and practical training from an industry expert chef trainer
• Spend one day a month in our Umbrella Training culinary school in London
• Embed what they have learnt back into your workplace by experiencing the different sections and collating evidence of their work
• Their demonstration and evidence collecting of their work should take place as part of off-the-job hours