Level 2 City and Guilds Diploma in Professional Cookery (Food Preparation & Cooking)
Course Code: 500/9869/x
This qualification is for people who would like to start or develop their careers in hospitality. It will give you both transferable and job role specific skills, set out by employers, ensuring that you are ready for both a specific role and a career in the hospitality industry.
To give you an understanding of this course, topics include:
- Maintenance of a safe, hygienic and secure working environment
- Working effectively as part of a hospitality team
- Maintain food safety when storing, preparing and cooking food
- Maintain, handle and clean knives
- Cook and finish basic meat dishes
- Prepare cook and finish basic soups
- Complete kitchen documentation
- Set up and close kitchen
- Employment rights & responsibilities in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector
If you are a school-leaver and not working full time, you could access this course for free through the Skills for Life and Work programme.
Find out more here:
https://people-1st.co.uk/programmes/skills-for-life-and-work-2/
If you are working a minimum of 21 hours per week in the Hospitality sector, you may be eligible to access this course for free at any age through the All-Age Apprenticeships programme. Conditions apply.
Find out more here:
https://people-1st.co.uk/programmes/apprenticeships-ni/
You could progress to a level 3 qualification, or you could specialise in a particular area of hospitality including food and beverage service, front office, house-keeping and professional cookery where roles include, catering/restaurant manager, commis chef, pastry chef, fast food service assistant, food processing operative, bar person/manager, team leader, hotel manager.
