Apprentice Butcher

LISHMANS OF ILKLEY LLP

ILKLEY (LS29 8DP)

Closes in 30 days (Friday 12 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 August 2025

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Summary

We are looking for an apprentice butcher to join our retail butchers and meat production. You will learn all aspects of butchery within our production unit, from making sausages to curing bacon.

Wage

£16,640 a year

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£8 per hour

Training course
Butcher (level 2)
Hours
5 days a week including Saturdays.

40 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 13 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

You will be trained in all aspects of the meat industry. The main duties/tasks you will carry out includes:

  • Sausage Making
  • Meat Cutting
  • All aspects of Curing - Bacon, Hams, Charcuterie, Salami
  • Cleaning

Where you'll work

25 LEEDS ROAD
ILKLEY
LS29 8DP

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

MEAT EAST ANGLIA TRADES (IPSWICH) LIMITED

Training course

Butcher (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Comply with regulations and legislation relevant to their role and business.
  • Maintains and sharpens knives and cutting equipment.
  • Manual handling of carcases or primals through the manufacturing or butchery process.
  • Adhere to the organisational policies and standard operating procedures.
  • Maintain the meat product to the given customer specification and food safety compliance and traceability procedures in the meat supply chain.
  • Support colleagues in delivering the daily workplace requirements.
  • Use technology and applications to support production, sales, and customer service.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement activities which focus on improving sustainability within the business.
  • Communicate with customers and stakeholders to meet their requirements.
  • Process and dispose of waste material.
  • Uses knives and cutting equipment to undertake a range of primary and secondary butchery skills.
  • Serve customers in line with brand standards.
  • Advise customers on the use by dates, storage, preparation, and cooking of meat products.
  • Prepare, produce, and display meat products such as joints, portions, sausages, burgers, value-added products and offer alternative products when required.
  • Plan and prepare for seasonal supply and demand of meat products in the merchandising and promotion of seasonal foods.
  • Provide provenance and heritage product information.
  • Set up and close meat counter displays.
  • Balance the customers’ needs with additional linked products and services such as marinades, and encourage customer loyalty and repeat business.
  • Produce meat to the specific volume, size, and weight to meet the needs of stakeholders.
  • Maximise the saleable yield for the business relating to carcases or primals.
  • Contribute to efficiencies to support the key performance indicators (KPIs) of the business through working to agreed specifications for their role.
  • Adhere to customer specifications and contracts.
  • Contribute to foreign body control and metal detection.
  • Meet key performance indicators within meat processing.
  • Comply with regulations and legislation relevant to their role and business.
  • Maintains and sharpens knives and cutting equipment.
  • Manual handling of carcases or primals through the manufacturing or butchery process.
  • Adhere to the organisational policies and standard operating procedures.
  • Maintain the meat product to the given customer specification and food safety compliance and traceability procedures in the meat supply chain.
  • Support colleagues in delivering the daily workplace requirements.
  • Use technology and applications to support production, sales, and customer service.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement activities which focus on improving sustainability within the business.
  • Communicate with customers and stakeholders to meet their requirements.
  • Process and dispose of waste material.
  • Uses knives and cutting equipment to undertake a range of primary and secondary butchery skills.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade C/4)
  • Maths (grade C/4)

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
  • Enthusiastic
  • Keen to learn
  • Polite
  • Good Time Keeper

Other requirements

It is hard work and involves working on a Saturday. It is physically demanding and can be non-stop all day. In the winter, it's a cold environment to work in. Despite this, it is a rewarding and satisfying job.

About this employer

We are a large retail shop employing 18 members of staff, we also sell a selection of our products to trade customers, including bars, restaurants, farm shops and delis.

http://www.lishmansbutchers.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Level 3 Butchery Training and potential to progress within the business for the right person.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MEAT EAST ANGLIA TRADES (IPSWICH) LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336711.

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Closes in 30 days (Friday 12 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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