Butchery Apprenticeship

Oughs

LISKEARD (PL14 3JJ)

Closes in 17 days (Monday 14 September 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 28 August 2026

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Summary

Oughs are offering an exciting opportunity to join their team as a Butchery Apprentice. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain professional training and hands-on experience in essential butchery skills across various areas of the butchery department, while studying at Duchy Stoke Climsland.

Wage

£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Training course
Butcher (level 2)
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday Breakdown: Tuesday: 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM Wednesday: 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM Thursday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Friday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday: 7:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

40 hours a week

Start date

Thursday 1 October 2026

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

The successful apprentice will gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the business, developing a multi-skilled skill set within a fast-paced retail environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Product Preparation & Presentation: Assist in preparing and displaying fresh meat to the highest standards of quality and appeal.
  • Customer Excellence: Provide outstanding customer service, ensuring every client feels valued, welcomed, and well-informed.
  • Hygiene & Safety: Maintain a clean, safe, and hygienic work environment in strict compliance with food safety regulations.
  • Operational Support: Support daily shop operations, including stock rotation, merchandising, waste management, general cleaning, and routine shop maintenance.
  • Skills Development: Under expert guidance and following initial training, learn to safely operate counter equipment and develop professional knife skills.

Where you'll work

10 MARKET STREET
LISKEARD
PL14 3JJ

Training

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

Training provider

CORNWALL COLLEGE

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 4 / C)
  • Maths (grade 4/C)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

Location is in a rural location, so transport is essential.

About this employer

Oughs is an established, family-run butchery based in Liskeard, deeply rooted in serving the local community, neighbouring villages, and select local restaurants. The current owner took over the shop in November 2022, building on a decade of hands-on experience working directly within the business.

​The shop is built on strong relationships with a trusted local supply network, delivering the finest meat, artisan cheeses, and gourmet ingredients, with everything else crafted in-house. Alongside the raw meat counter, the business offers shop-made pies, pasties, and sausage rolls, a dedicated cheese counter, and a curated selection of preserves and chutneys. Operating with a small, close-knit team, every staff member is multi-skilled and able to support all areas of daily operations as needed.

Company benefits

Benefits & Perks

  • ​Meat Allowance: Generous staff allowance for fresh meat products.
  • ​Seasonal Bonuses: Performance and festive bonuses awarded at Christmas and Easter.
  • ​Overtime Available: Additional hours available during peak trading periods (subject to demand).
  • ​Company Socials: Team days out 

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

Possibility of securing a long-term position upon successfully completing the apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CORNWALL COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000050362.

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Closes in 17 days (Monday 14 September 2026 at 11:59pm)