Level 3 Apprentice Lead Baker

Course overview

Bakers work in one of the largest, most dynamic and fastest growing sectors
of the food and drink industry. As an Industry there is a desperate need for
more experienced, qualified and commercially driven Bakers.

Every day bakers make and sell millions of loaves of bread and baked goods,
such as cakes, pies, pastries and biscuits to customers in the UK and around the
world.

Lead Bakers will be able to not only produce a wide range of both simple and
complex bakery products such as sour dough, complex pastry and buscuit products,
fried products, cakes and sponge products. Lead Bakers will be able to supervise
and demonstrate the skills required to other members of the workforce. They will
learn how to organise and implement all aspects of a commercial bakery from
start to finish, including: Ingredient sourcing, production planning, creating,
baking, finishing, packaging and delivery to the customer.

In addition to the core bakery skills and knowledge apprentices will also
complete one of the following specialist pathways based on their job role;

• Craft


• Plant


• Lead Bakers will learn how to:




• Prepare complex bakery products for customer/consumers, including
  packaging and labelling of bakery products meeting current legislation.


• Be able to order & organise material/stock control for bakery
  production for bakery ingredients, packaging, labels and delivery
  methods


• Able to organise, supervise and oversee the site, maintaining a clean
  and effective bakery production environment.


• Complete & supervise bakery documentation and records – paper-based
  or electronic. For example, legal and process compliance checks, hygiene
  records, weights and production reporting. Being able to demonstrate and
  display according to the business need.


• Supervise and manage the resolving of issues, making improvements to
  bakery products/production.


• Produce bread products to specification, including New product
  development and new market opportunities.


• Produce pastries and confectionery to specification, , including New
  product development and new market opportunities.


• Amend recipes to meet customer bakery production requirements.


• How to supervise and control colleagues to safely work machinery, such
  as power mixers, industrial ovens and production lines

For more information on the skills, knowledge and behaviours associated and
learned on this apprenticeship, please download the file attached to this link:
Lead
Baker Level 3

Duration
Typically 24 months (some apprentices could
complete sooner depending on their previous experience and qualifications, their
perfomance during the apprenticeship and the opportunity to develop their skills
and knowledge in the workplace).

Entry requirements

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 of the apprenticeship. Additionally,
apprentices must have a working level of maths and English that will allow
successful achievement of level 2 functional skill prior to the end point
assessment.

Prior to enrolment potential apprentices will be required to complete;

• English and maths assessment


• Existing skills, knowledge and behaviour 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.