Apprentice Butcher

N.J.SHALLIS BUTCHERS LTD

BUSHEY (WD23 3PP)

Closes in 30 days (Sunday 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 14 August 2025

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Summary

We are looking for an apprentice butcher, who will work in a friendly, supportive environment with a first class team of experienced butchers.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Butcher (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm. Weekends may be offered on an ad-hoc basis.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 15 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
  • Customer service
  • Cleaning

Where you'll work

21 HARCOURT ROAD
BUSHEY
WD23 3PP

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

Butcher Level 2.

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

  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working
  • Physical fitness
  • Enthusiastic
  • Keen to learn
  • Reliable
  • Punctual

Other requirements

There will be boxes of vegetables to move, and eventually meat carcases.

About this employer

We are a very busy butchers shop based in Bushey. Neil has been a butcher for over 40 years, having himself start off as a Saturday boy. Everything is made on the premises which we pride ourselves on the quality of meat that we sell.

After this apprenticeship

Take on more responsibilities and tasks within the shop.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MEAT EAST ANGLIA TRADES (IPSWICH) LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337285.

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Closes in 30 days (Sunday 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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