NVQ Advanced Professional Cookery (Level 3 City & Guilds NVQ Diploma) — Full-time

This course is perfect you love to cook, have a creative flair and want to further develop your cooking skills to move into a supervisory role within a professional kitchen.

You’ll learn advanced cookery techniques, and combine interesting ingredients and flavours to create new dishes and menus. You’ll also learn supervisory skills as well as further developing your knowledge of food hygiene and health and safety within the catering and hospitality industry.

There is some theory content included in this course but it is mainly worked around building a logbook.

You can expect to put your skills into practice by supervising a small team in one of our commercial outlets, serving lunches and a variety of dinner menus to a wide range of customers as well as gaining real work experience in our brand new Fletcher's Restaurant in the city centre.

You will experience industry work placements and meet with professional and renowned chefs to learn from the best. There’s lots of hands-on cooking time, plus time spent researching and learning the theory of catering.

Aged 19 or over?

If you don't already hold a Level 3 qualification (equivalent to at least two A Levels, or a Level 3 vocational qualification), you can now study this course fully funded!

The Government’s new National Skills Fund programme has created new opportunities for adults, aged 19 and over, to access fully funded full-time learning.

For more information, view our Funded Courses for Over 19s page.

If you are aged 16-18 without having achieved a Level 3 qualification, you will also be eligible for full funding.