Butcher Level 2 Apprenticeship

Course overview

Duration
Typically 15 Months to gateway (some apprentices could complete
sooner depending on their previous experience and qualifications, their
performance during the apprenticeship and the opportunity to develop their
skills and knowledge in the workplace)

Course Overview
Butchery is one of the oldest professions in the world
where innovation meets tradition.

A Plumpton College butchery apprenticeship will equip the apprentice with all
the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in an increasingly popular,
in-demand and growing sector which relies on people skills which cannot be
replaced with automation.

Apprentices will acquire the skills and knowledge to practice the art of
butchery at the highest level, learning to cut, prepare, and make modern meat
products as required by their employer. There are many different career paths
available with apprentices selecting one of three pathways based on their job
role;

• Retail


• Instore


• Processing Butchery. 

What apprentices will learn

• Knife skills – including cutting, boning, trimming and mincing of
  meat


• Health and safety practices, food safety and hygiene and key
  legislation


• Using butchery tools and machinery – including mincing, sausage making,
  bacon curing, vacuum packing


• Business profitability, yield controls, maximising productivity,
  efficiency and customer care


• Team work and customer care skills


• Specialist retail shop or processing plant butchery skills


• For more information on the skills, knowledge and behaviours associated
  and learnt on this apprenticeship, please download the file attached to this
  link: Butcher Level 2
  

Qualifications Awarded

• Apprenticeship Certificate


• Level 2 award in food safety


• Level 2 award in health and safety


• Level 2 award in knife skills


• Level 1 in maths and English (if applicable)

Delivery model
A blended learning experience with attendance at our
butchery training centre located next to our college farm, Lambert Farm on our
main campus approximately every fortnight (during term time only), live online
theoretical teaching learning and quarterly workplace competency and efficiency
observation and assessments.

End Point Assessment

• Multiple choice test


• Practical skills assessment


• Vocational competence discussion

Apprenticeship Graded

• Fail, Pass, Pass with Excellence

Entry Requirements
The entry requirements for all Level 2 programmes, will
require either:

• GCSE H or above in English (either Literature or Language) and Maths


• GCSE 1 or above in English (either Literature or Language) and Maths


• Entry 3 Functional Skills English and Maths (or equivalent qualification)
  at this level or Level 1 or 2.

Should you not meet the entry requirements for English and Maths, please get
in contact with us. We are aware that there are many factors that may have
affected your previous education and grades, so will consider these in support
of the application on an individual basis.

In addition to your prior English and Maths qualifications, you will complete
an initial assessment for English and Maths as part of your pre-boarding session
in college. This assessment will give us a current working level grade and will
indicate which level Functional Skills you will be enrolled on if you have not
got a GCSE 4/C or above in English and Maths. We may contact you to discuss this
grade if we have any concerns.

If you have a grade 4/C or above in GCSE English and/or Maths, you will not
be required to attend Functional Skills English and/or Maths sessions as part of
your Apprenticeship.

Please note: You will be required to produce your GCSE certificates BEFORE
you start your course to be exempt from attending Functional Skills English and
Maths sessions.

To enrol onto an apprenticeship programme you need to be employed with a
contract of employment. If you have an employer lined up or are already employed
please contact our Business Services team on 01273 892127 or via email.

You must be in a role that will allow you the opportunity to develop the
necessary skills, knowledge and behaviours set out in the apprenticeship.
Additionally, apprentices must have a working level of maths and English that
will allow successful achievement of level 1 functional skill prior to the end
point assessment.

If you do not currently have an employer please visit the main
Apprenticeships page for guidance on how to find and apply for an apprenticeship
opportunity or register for our Talent Bank service.

If you are an employer and would like to recruit or enrol an existing
employee onto an apprenticeship please contact our Business Services team
on  01273 892127 or via email.