Butchery Apprenticeship
Level: 2
Employer: ELLA SIDEBOTTOM
Location: BROOK HOUSE FARM
We are after a confident, happy, helpful member of the team who is hardworking and able to work using their own initiative. Customer facing, being able to speak face-to-face. We need someone to be flexible and in general, to have a passion for their job.
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
Expected start date: 13/10/2025
Hours per week: 37 hours
Wage: (Annually)
Job role includes
- Maintaining cleanliness and safety, ensuring all
Equipment is properly maintained - Creating meat products such as sausages and burgers
- Weighing, packaging and pricing meat products
- Sales and customer service
- Cutting and preparing meat products (sellable products such as steaks, chops, and joints).


About employer
Brookhouse Farm Shop is a family-run business offering fresh, locally sourced produce, meats, baked goods, and artisan products. We’re passionate about quality, sustainability, and supporting local suppliers. Apprentices joining our team will gain hands-on experience in a friendly, rural setting – learning about retail, customer service, and food handling while being part of a close-knit, community-focused team.
- The butchery apprenticeship training will take place 1 day a week at Reaseheath College
- This will be 12 to 18 months depending on previous experience
- At the end of this apprenticeship, you will achieve an intermediate apprenticeship in Level 2 butchery and apprentices must achieve Level 2 Food Safety Award, Level 2 Health & Safety in the Food Supply Chain Award, and Level 2 Knife Skills Award prior to taking the end-point assessment
- Apprentices without functional skills level 1 or equivalent English and mathematics will need to achieve this level and take the test for level 2 English and mathematics prior to taking the end-point assessment
- Progression after achieving the Level 2 Apprenticeship, candidates can progress through to a Level 3 advanced apprenticeship in butchery
- We would like the successful applicant to become a full-time trained butcher within our Brook House family
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working