Chef Apprenticeship

The Production Chef Level 2 Apprenticeship helps you gain hands on kitchen experience, develop professional cooking skills and build a strong foundation for a career in the food industry. This occupation is found in a diverse range of organisations.

Wage: £15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Hourly rate £8.00 per hour. Salary to be reviewed over time, based on performance and progression.

Training course:
Production chef (level
2)

Hours:

Straight shifts with an hour break. Typically 1 x 8-30am start and 3 x 10am starts. Food is served daily until 9pm.

40 hours a week

Sunday, 15 March 2026

Duration: 1 year

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands‑on experience.

• Working alongside experienced chefs in a busy hotel/restaurant kitchen
• Preparing ingredients and cooking dishes to spec
• Maintaining high standards of food hygiene, cleanliness and safety
• Learning kitchen organisation, stock control and waste reduction

FLOOKBURGH ROAD
ALLITHWAITE
GRANGE OVER SANDS
LA11 7RQ

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

• 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.

Attendance at Furness College required one day per week (Tuesdays, 9.00am–3.00pm).

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

• Customer care skills
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental

Discuss with employer.

The Pheasant is a family run free‑house owned by the Jones's since November 2005.

With over 40 years of hospitality experience we believe the basic principles of a good inn are a warm welcome, clean, comfortable surroundings, value for money, well kept beer and great food.

We proudly honour the title of Cumbria Life Awards 'BEST PUB 2023'.

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC.