Kitchen Assistant

PROFESSIONAL COOKERY APPRENTICESHIP

We love food, we love cooking and most of all we love people. That’s why we want you! We will train and develop you to become a fantastic professional Chef and beyond through our award winning apprenticeship, tutored by the best in the business! Mitchells & Butlers operate over 1,700 restaurants and pubs with brands including Browns, Vintage Inns, All Bar One, Harvester and Premium Country Pubs. If you like this and want to be paid to learn & develop whilst also gaining a qualification, then read on…

WHAT IS THE APPRENTICESHIP?

Level 2 in Professional Cookery Apprenticeship: 

• 22 culinary masterclasses
• 10 mentoring and assessment days
• 4 culinary enrichment workshops
• Functional skills development in Maths and English (where necessary) 
• Delivered out of state of the art facilities in Watford and Harborne in Birmingham
• By the end of the programme, which will run for at least 1 year, you will be at Commis Chef level
• When not at the above events you will be applying your learning working in one of our excellent restaurants that is right for where you live and where you’ll attend courses to make sure you aren’t travelling too far

THE TEAM SUPPORTING YOU:

- Chef Tutor - teaching you when on our courses

• Boc d’or Competitor (Google it - kind of a big deal if you love your food!)
• Prince Philip Medal for Services to Industry 2015
• Culinary Olympic Silver Medal Winner (Team GB)
• Springboard Award Chef Development 2013

- Qualifications Manager - helping to design your brilliant scheme

• National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) Top 100 Providers Award 2014 and 2105
• Vocational Qualification Best Apprenticeship Provider 2015 Award

- Culinary Mentor - supporting you regularly throughout the programme

- Head Chef - your boss in the business you’ll work in. They’ll help you put your learning into practise in a real working restaurant

- General Manager - in overall control of the business you’ll work in

You get the picture - they know their stuff!

HERE’S WHAT ELSE WE’LL BRING TO THE TABLE:

• Pay (obviously!)
• 20% off in ALL our business for you and up to 5 of your nearest and dearest
• Free Shares (literally free - no strings attached!)
• Discounts with many of the UKs leading retailers
• Money off shoes for work
• Flexible shifts
• 28 days holiday
• Option to sign up to our funded dental cover programme
• Earn up to £1,000 for referring a friend to our management, head office or graduate roles

IS OUR APPRENTICESHIP FOR YOU?

• Between the ages of 16 and 23
• Resident in the UK for minimum of the last 3 years
• Not in any other form of education
• Love cooking and food (you don’t need to have worked in a professional kitchen)
• Passionate about becoming a chef
• Keen to learn and attend all of our courses
• Can work a minimum of 30 hours a week in the restaurant you are placed in
• Understand that you will be required to work some evenings and weekends
• Hold a minimum of GCSE grade A-E in Maths and English