- 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 lines
Qualifications Awarded
- Apprenticeship Certificate
- Level 1 maths and English (if applicable)
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 1 functional skill prior to the end point assessment.
Prior to enrolment potential apprentices will be required to complete;
- Maths and English 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.
