Production Chef Apprentice – Level 2
Cams Hill School
Hampshire (PO16 8AH)
Closes in 4 days (Monday 28 April 2025)
Posted on 4 February 2025
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Summary
Cams Hill School are looking for a Chef Apprentice to join our Catering team, with the primary responsibility of assisting the Chefs and Bakers with the preparation, cooking and serving of our menu.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
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Hourly rate - £7.55 Working 37 hours per week over 39 weeks (term-time only)
- Training course
- Production chef (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, 8.00am - 4.00pm
Friday, 8.00am - 3.30pm
37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
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
• Assist in the preparation, cooking and serving of the dishes on our Menu following specified recipes.
• Monitor food temperature, quality and portion size of all food served.
• Ensure all food is served with the correct tools and is well presented.
• Help produce a range of food which allows dietary and allergy requirements to be met.
• Assist in maintaining clean equipment and kitchen referencing daily checks and cleaning routines.
• Give a great customer experience projecting a willing and helpful attitude to customers.
• Operate tills whenever required.
• Operating high-risk equipment according to Health & Safety guidelines ensuring adequate training and relevant risk assessments in place.
• Assist in the washing up area.
• Help with storing daily deliveries, ensuring correct stock rotation and carrying out quantity, temperature and quality checks.
• Ensure that food safety and hygiene standards are maintained in the kitchen at all times.
• Comply with the Cams Hill School directives regarding Personal Protective Equipment, uniform and personal hygiene.
• Promote teamwork to complete tasks in an effective and efficient way.
Where you’ll work
Shearwater Avenue
Fareham
Hampshire
PO16 8AH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SOUTH HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE GROUP
Your training course
Production chef (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
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, 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.
- 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.
Your training plan
Training schedule has yet to be agreed. An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying. Details will be made available at a later date.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Level 4 or above)
- Mathematics (grade Level 4 or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Patience
About this company
About the School Cams Hill School is a state comprehensive secondary school that has high quality teaching and learning opportunities along with a deep and embedded strong academic drive. These elements, coupled with a phenomenal co-curricular programme of activities, engage, challenge, inspire and develop highly qualified, confident, resilient individuals. We are extremely proud of our school. It is a special place to learn and work and, at Cams Hill, it is definitely the people that make the place: pupils, staff; parents and carers. All staff are part of a culture of trust, autonomy, parity, respect and are regularly recognised for their contributions. All staff complete annual performance management reviews with the opportunity to receive progression through the pay scale and the potential to receive remuneration for exceptional performance. Cams Hill School recognises the benefits derived from investing in our staff, and there are a number of additional benefits available to all staff: Local Government Pension Scheme Professional development opportunities Free parking for all staff Access to School Dining with Chef Manager Free use of the Fitness Suite Annual Flu Jabs offered via the onsite welfare team, free Assistance towards eye tests and glasses If you would like to be part of a school which develops pupils to be positive contributors to society, and which values its staff, we would very much like to hear from you. The Gateway Trust is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service.
After this apprenticeship
- To be a qualified Cook
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Cams Hill School
Gemma Tullett
vacancies@camshill.com
01329 231641
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000300359.
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Closes in 4 days (Monday 28 April 2025)
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Company’s application instructions
If you would like to be part of a school which develops pupils to be positive contributors to society, and which values its staff, we would very much like to hear from you. Please apply via MyNewTerm - https://mynewterm.com/jobs/137538/EDV-2025-CHS-73833