NVQ Level 2 Food Processing and Cooking

Essential skills in this qualification include: maintaining a safe, hygienic and secure working environment, contribution to effective teamwork; and maintaining food safety when storing, preparing and cooking food.

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Course Outline
These qualifications are ideal for you if your job or intended job is involved primarily within the food processing and cooking services.

Learning and skills outcomes:

  • The aim of this qualification is to recognise good hospitality practice.
  • The flexibility of this qualification will enable candidates' skills to be adapted for a specific work based activity and/or employer requirements.
  • Help staff do their job better, improving quality of output and decreasing time spent on solving problems.

Suggested audience and pre-requirements
This qualification is aimed at people working within the hospitality industry.

You do not need any formal qualifications.

Benefits and progression

  • Offer employers up to date food processing and cooking techniques, targeted to their needs rather than qualification
  • Improves efficiency and productivity
  • Aligned to the need of business, it allows employers and learners to take control of the learning experience
  • work-place learning
  • Improves employee job satisfaction, motivation and retention, and create a quality assured highly skilled workforce.


Course detail

The detail course content is as follows:

Mandatory Units

  • Maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment
  • Contribute to effective teamwork
  • Maintain food safety when storing, holding and serving food


Optional Units A (a minimum of 4 of the following units)

  • Cook and finish basic fish dishes
  • Cook and finish basic meat dishes
  • Cook and finish basic poultry dishes
  • Cook and finish basic vegetable dishes
  • Cook-chill food
  • Cook-freeze food
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic hot sauces
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic rice dishes
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic pasta dishes
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic pulse dishes
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic egg dishes
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic bread and dough products
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic pastry products
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic cakes, sponges and scones
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic grain dishes
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic healthier dishes
  • Prepare, cook and finish basic hot and cold desserts
  • Prepare and present food for cold presentation
  • Process, cook, finish and present flour, dough and tray-bake products
  • Prepare hot and cold sandwiches

Optional Units B (a minimum of 3 of the following units)

  • Complete kitchen documentation
  • Set up and close kitchen
  • Package food for delivery
  • Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation
  • Order stock
  • Maintain a vending machine
  • Maintain and deal with payments
  • Provide a counter/takeaway service
  • Convert a room for dining
  • Supervise the work of staff


Duration and delivery

Duration
4-6 month delivery in the work place.
Candidates will be seen by a Trainer/Assessor weekly or fortnightly.

Delivery
Training can be delivered in the work place.
Following a group induction (3 hours) and initial assessment candidates will work with the Trainer/Assessor to put together a portfolio and will be observed and assessed in the work place.