NVQ Level 2 Multi-Skilled Hospitality Service

Essential skills in this qualification include: maintaining a safe, hygienic and secure working environment and giving customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation.

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Course Outline
These qualifications are ideal for you if your job or intended job is involved primarily within multiple hospitality 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 multiple hospitality services 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 follow:

Mandatory Units

  • Maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment
  • Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation


Optional Units
7 optional units from a minimum of 3 different option blocks

Block A : Reception Units

  • Deal with communications as part of the reception function
  • Deal with the arrival of customers
  • Deal with bookings
  • Prepare customer accounts and deal with departures
  • Resolve customer service problems
  • Identify and provide tourism related information and advice

Block B : Housekeeping Units

  • Clean and service a range of areas
  • Work using different chemicals and equipment
  • Maintain housekeeping supplies
  • Clean and protect floors (Asset Skills)
  • Clean carpets and soft furnishings (Asset Skills)
  • Provide a linen service
  • Carry out periodic room servicing and deep cleaning
  • Collect linen and make beds

Block C : Food and Drink Service Units

  • Prepare and clear areas for table service
  • Serve food at the table
  • Provide a silver service
  • Prepare and clear the bar area
  • Serve alcoholic and soft drinks
  • Prepare and serve wines
  • Prepare cellars and kegs
  • Prepare and serve dispensed and instant hot drinks
  • Prepare and clear areas for counter/takeaway service
  • Provide a counter/takeaway service

Block D : Food Preparation and Cooking Units

  • Prepare vegetables for basic dishes
  • Cook and finish basic vegetable dishes
  • 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 and present food for cold presentation
  • Complete kitchen documentation
  • Set up and close kitchen
  • Prepare and finish simple salad and fruit dishes
  • Prepare hot and cold sandwiches
  • Prepare and cook fish
  • Prepare and cook meat and poultry

Block E : Generic Units

  • Maintain and deal with payments
  • Contribute to effective teamwork
  • Maintain food safety when storing, preparing and cooking food
  • Maintain food safety when storing, holding and serving food


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.