- Duration
Typically 18 months practical period with a 3 month End Point Assessment window. 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.
- Location
- Plumpton College
Course Overview
Bakers work in one of the largest, most dynamic and fastest growing sectors of the food and drink industry.
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.
Bakers will be able to make a wide range of breads and baked goods, using a range of traditional craft and mechanical processing methods. They will work safely and hygienically, following recipes and specifications, to ensure the quality and standards of products meet customer requirements.
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
- Instore
- Processing Bakery
Apprentice Bakers will learn how to
- Prepare bakery products for customer/consumers, including packaging and labelling of bakery products.Measuring ingredient quantities
- Contribute to material/stock control for bakery production for example, bakery ingredients, packaging, labels.
- Contribute to maintaining a clean and effective bakery production environment.
- Complete bakery documentation and records - paper-based or electronic. For example, legal and process compliance checks, hygiene records, weights and production reporting.
- Contribute to resolving issues with and making improvements to bakery products/production.
- Produce craft bread products to specification.
- Produce craft pastries and confectionery to specification.
- Amend recipes to meet craft bakery production requirements.
- How to safely work machinery, such as power mixers, industrial ovens and production line.
- For more information on the skills, knowledge and behaviours associated and learnt on this apprenticeship, please download the file attached to this link: Baker Level 2
Qualifications Awarded
- Apprenticeship Certificate
- Level 1 maths and English (if applicable)
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.
