Butcher

Butchery is one of the oldest professions in the world where innovation meets tradition.

A Plumpton College butchery apprenticeship will equip the apprentice with all the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in an increasingly popular, in-demand and growing sector which relies on people skills which cannot be replaced with automation.

Apprentices will acquire the skills and knowledge to practice the art of butchery at the highest level, learning to cut, prepare, and make modern meat products as required by their employer. There are many different career paths available with apprentices selecting one of three pathways based on their job role;

• Retail
• Instore
• Processing Butchery.  

What apprentices will learn

• Knife skills - including cutting, boning, trimming and mincing of meat
• Health and safety practices, food safety and hygiene and key legislation
• Using butchery tools and machinery – including mincing, sausage making, bacon curing, vacuum packing
• Business profitability, yield controls, maximising productivity, efficiency and customer care
• Team work and customer care skills
• Specialist retail shop or processing plant butchery skills

Qualifications Awarded

• Apprenticeship Certificate
• Level 2 award in food safety
• Level 2 award in health and safety
• Level 2 award in knife skills
• Level 1 in maths and English (if applicable)

Delivery model

A blended learning experience with attendance at our butchery training centre located next to our college farm, Lambert Farm on our main campus approximately every fortnight (during term time only), live online theoretical teaching learning and quarterly workplace competency and efficiency observation and assessments.

End Point Assessment

• Multiple choice test
• Practical skills assessment
• Vocational competence discussion

Apprenticeship Graded

• Fail, Pass, Pass with Excellence

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.