Apprentice Nandoca
NANDO'S CHICKENLAND LIMITED
Sheffield (S11 8PP)
Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025)
Posted on 5 August 2025
Contents
Summary
A nanwhatnow? A Nandoca! That’s what we call those in our restaurant family. Our passionate team players, putting their heart, soul, and magical powers into serving up amazing food and drink, catering unforgettable customer experiences.
- Wage
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£10,387 a year
- Training course
- Food and beverage team member (level 2)
- Hours
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25 hours per week, 8am – Late (under 18’s latest finish will be 11pm), with exact shift patterns to be confirmed.
25 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 16 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As an Apprentice Nandoca (aka Team Member) at Nando’s, you will be working towards a level 2 Food and Beverage Team Member apprenticeship over the duration of 15 months, learning and growing in your role. We’ll give you on-the-job training and development, off-the-job support, coaching and help you build your own unique learning plan.
We believe growth is about more than just helping you to perform in your job; it’s about becoming a better person inside and outside of work.
You will make our customers feel valued as part of our family by creating a fun environment for them to enjoy. It's up to us to make sure our customers leave feeling happy, having had a really positive experience.
Your roles and responsibilities will include;
Front of house:
- Giving a warm welcome to our customers and making them feel at home
- Serve customers efficiently at the till – understanding their needs
- Serve amazing food to Nando’s high standards that make customers feel ‘Fired up’, ‘Wowed by the Experience’ and ‘Hooked for the Next Taste’
- Bring amazing food and drink to the table and make sure our customers have everything they need
- Manage takeaway customer experience
- Set up, maintain, hand over and close down a clean, safe, and fully operational workstation
- Handle deep cleaning to Nando’s high standards
- Follow all fire safety, health and safety, food hygiene and restaurant security measures
Back of house:
- Make our customers feel valued as part of our family by cooking, grilling and preparing their meals to Nando’s high standards
- Set up, maintain, hand over and close down and clean, safe, and fully operational workstation
- Handle deep cleaning to Nando’s high standard
- Follow all fire safety, health and safety, food hygiene and restaurant security measures
As well as fantastic training and development, we really care about looking after our Nandoca’s by offering a great range of benefits, which include:
- Free meal on every shift you work
- Flexible shifts
- Access to a great discount platform
- Discount on Nando’s for you and your friends and family (40% every day)
- Internal development programmes to support your career development
- Regular regional parties and events
- Refer a friend incentive scheme
Where you'll work
501 Ecclesall Rd
Sheffield
S11 8PP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Training course
Food and beverage team member (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Serve food and beverages to individual business standards.
- Identify opportunities and apply techniques to increase sales and improve customer experience.
- Tailors communication techniques to meet customer needs and build rapport.
- Maintain a safe, hygienic, and secure working environment.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
- Follow food safety and allergen legislation and procedures applicable to own role.
- Use technology and equipment in line with business policy to meet customer needs.
- Handle transactions and payments securely.
- Work as part of a team to ensure that the products and services are delivered on time and in line with business needs
- Deal with or escalate issues that impact service and customer experience, and implement any instructions given by supervisor.
- Use professional methods of communication that are tailored to different situations, and individual and team needs.
- Manages own time and workload, prioritising tasks.
- Maintain and rotate stock according to life cycle and business processes.
- Ensure equipment and technology faults and maintenance issues are reported promptly.
- Check customers are satisfied with products and services through questioning and act on feedback in line with business procedures.
- Keep up to date with changes to products and processes.
- Uses feedback to improve own performance.
- Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
- Follows and supports equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
- Participate in team briefings, implementing instructions, and offering input or feedback where relevant.
- Serve food and beverages to individual business standards.
- Identify opportunities and apply techniques to increase sales and improve customer experience.
- Tailors communication techniques to meet customer needs and build rapport.
- Maintain a safe, hygienic, and secure working environment.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
- Follow food safety and allergen legislation and procedures applicable to own role.
- Use technology and equipment in line with business policy to meet customer needs.
- Handle transactions and payments securely.
- Work as part of a team to ensure that the products and services are delivered on time and in line with business needs
- Deal with or escalate issues that impact service and customer experience, and implement any instructions given by supervisor.
- Use professional methods of communication that are tailored to different situations, and individual and team needs.
- Manages own time and workload, prioritising tasks.
- Maintain and rotate stock according to life cycle and business processes.
- Ensure equipment and technology faults and maintenance issues are reported promptly.
- Check customers are satisfied with products and services through questioning and act on feedback in line with business procedures.
- Keep up to date with changes to products and processes.
- Uses feedback to improve own performance.
- Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
- Follows and supports equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
- Participate in team briefings, implementing instructions, and offering input or feedback where relevant.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
About this employer
Ask people where Nando’s comes from and you’ll get a different answer every time. Portugal? Mexico? The UK? The Nando's story started in 1987 in Rosettenville, a Portuguese neighbourhood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fast forward five years and Nando’s landed in the UK. Now, with over 460 restaurants (and counting), their PERi-PERi is a bestselling hot sauce and Nando’s has become as big a part of culture as drinking tea.
After this apprenticeship
Developing our people is priority and we are keen to promote from within so there is huge opportunity to grow into bigger roles with more responsibility.
On successful completion of the apprenticeship there are opportunities to complete further apprenticeships with Nando’s.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335728.
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Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025)
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