Staffordshire Traditional Meats offers a variety of high-quality, locally sourced meats, including beef, lamb, and pork, with a focus on traditional preparation methods and traceability.
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you will do at work
- Maintaining cleanliness and safety, ensuring all
Equipment is properly maintained - Creating meat products such as sausages, burgers and pies
- Weighing, packaging and pricing meat products
- Sales and customer service
- Cutting and preparing meat products (sellable products such as steaks, chops, and joints).
Training
- The butchery apprenticeship training will take place 1 day a week at Reaseheath College
- This will be 12 to 18 months, depending on previous experience
- At the end of this apprenticeship, you will achieve an intermediate apprenticeship in Level 2 butchery and apprentices must achieve
- Level 2 Food Safety Award, Level 2 Health & Safety in the Food Supply Chain Award, and Level 2 Knife Skills Award prior to taking the end-point assessment
- Apprentices without functional skills level 1 or equivalent English and mathematics will need to achieve this level and take the test for level 2 English and mathematics prior to taking the end-point assessment
- Progression after achieving the Level 2 Apprenticeship, candidates can progress through to a Level 3 advanced apprenticeship in butchery