Specialist Training
If you are joining with little or no catering experience, you will need to complete specialist training at the Food Services Training Wing at Worthy Down. This 12-week course will train you to maintain excellent standards of personal, food and kitchen hygiene whilst using specialist kitchen equipment to produce a variety of dishes. You will also undertake a 10-day Introduction to Deployed Operations with No 3 Mobile Catering Squadron( 3 MCS) where you will be trained to set up field kitchens under tentage, this skill will enable you to provide catering support to deployed operations worldwide as well as supporting exercises both based in the UK and abroad.
( Qualified) Specialist Training
If you have the relevant qualifications and experience in professional cookery you will be offered the opportunity to undertake a diagnostic test at Food Services Training Wing at Worthy Down prior to attestation. Applicants are required to achieve a minimum 80 % pass in both the Theory and Practical elements to ensure eligibility for accelerated promotion thereafter. Successful applicants( after completion of BRTC) will automatically progress to the last 4 weeks of the chef course where they will complete familiarisation training and the 10-day introduction to Deployed Operations with 3 MCS.
Additional Qualification Opportunities
All Chef entrants, where eligible, are offered the opportunity to enrol on to the Production Chef Intermediate Apprenticeship. The Apprenticeship is completed during your first tour of duty following an Independent End Point Assessment The Chef training programme includes the following elements:
· Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering
· Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace ·- Level 2 Award in Nutrition
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