Catering Services ( Production Chef Apprenticeship )

Royal Navy; Tipner; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Navy seeks a Caterer to support naval menus aboard ships and shore facilities. You will be responsible for ordering, receiving, and accounting for provisions, while maintaining top hygiene standards and budget controls.

Your role adapts meals to dietary needs and ensures production is scheduled and documented. You will work to high standards, with on-board logistics and collaboration with chefs and service teams, contributing to morale and health while at sea or on base.

Qualifications

• GCSE Math and English at minimum level
• Foundation Food Hygiene Certificate required or desirable
• Health and Safety Certificate desirable
• Experience in catering or kitchen hygiene beneficial
• Strong organisational and food service skills

Responsibilities

• Order, receive and account for provisions to support menus
• Maintains high standards of personal, food and kitchen hygiene
• Ensure compliance with procedures, menu specs and recipes within budget
• Adapt dishes to dietary, religious, and allergen requirements
• Produce and follow production schedules and quality documentation

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Organisation

Customer care

Problem solving

Administrative

Teamwork

Creativity

Initiative

Patience

Non-judgemental

Education

Foundation Food Hygiene Certificate

Health and Safety Certificate

GCSE Math & English

Job description

• The Royal Navy represents the United Kingdom worldwide, forging new alliances and maintaining old ones. Being a Caterer in the Royal Navy is a career that is literally miles from anything you could do at home


• Taking responsibility of ordering, receiving, and accounting for provisions to sustain the menus you write and there's a good chance you could be at sea for months at a time, the role of Caterer becomes about a lot more than food


• You’ll be at the centre of keeping morale high and health at its optimum while you are on board, while maintaining excellent standards of personal, food and kitchen hygiene


• Ensure compliance with procedures, menu specifications and recipes and produce food meeting portion controls, and budgetary constraints


• Adapt and produce dishes to meet special dietary, religious and allergenic requirements and follow, complete and maintain production schedules, legislative and quality standard documentation


• Use specialist kitchen equipment, communicate internally and externally with customers and colleagues and commit to personal development activities


• Communication skills


• Attention to detail


• Organisation skills


• Customer care skills


• Problem solving skills


• Administrative skills


• Logical


• Team working


• Creative


• Initiative


• Non judgemental


• Patience


• A keen interest in catering, GCSE Math and English (grade GCSE Level 4) - desired

The Royal Navy (RN) is responsible for the protection of British interests at home and around the World. 95% of all world trade passes through the high seas and every year Britain imports £524 billion worth of goods. The RN takes an active part in the protection of British Shipping. Around the United Kingdom the RN protects vital fishing stocks by monitoring fishing activities in our waters. We recruit throughout the year, so please ignore Key Dates

• Off-the-job training will be conducted in Hampshire in the South of England


• On the job training can be carried out in a wide variety of locations on land or at sea around the world or in the UK


• Other qualifications


• Foundation Food Hygiene Certificate


• Health and Safety Certificate

What happens at the end

• You’ll start your naval career as an Able Rate. With experience and further training, you could be promoted to Leading Hand and beyond


• If you show the right commitment, skills, and academic ability, you could become a Commissioned Officer


• Members of the Royal Navy are promoted on merit. Work hard and you can rise through the ranks, Wage: £20,400 a year, Find the best degree, higher, and advanced apprenticeships across the UK. Fast-track your career, earn a competitive wage, and gain debt-free qualifications.