Hospitality and Professional Cookery

If you'd like to work in a bakery or kitchen, then this course is a great place to start!

The course will also introduce you to the skills required to work in a Front of House setting within restaurant/hospitality facilities ensuring you are aware of how best to meet customer needs.

For entry you’ll need:

• A genuine interest in bakery and professional cookery
• National 3 qualifications in Math and English or a relevant course at SCQF 3 or equivalent

If you don't have any qualifications, you may still be considered for the course

This foundation course is ideal for learners who are new to bakery and cookery. It aims to provide an introduction to techniques, terms and skills involved in both baking and cooking. This hands-on course covers:

- Food Hygiene
- Bread Making
- Craft baking
- Food Preparation Techniques
- Customer Service
- Food and Beveridge Service

This course will help you decide in which direction you want your hospitality career to progress.

Your course will allow you to use and develop your Meta Skills.
Meta-skills are innate, timeless, higher-order skills that create adaptive learners and promote success in whatever context the future brings.
Your course, in particular, help you to develop these Meta Skills – focusing, integrity, adapting, initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading, creativity, sense making (problem solving) and critical thinking.

When you successfully complete this course, you can progress to:

- Food and Beverage service or Hospitality/Events.
- SVQ in Professional Cookery at SCQF Level 5