BUTCHERS APPRENTICE
HEANENS WHOLESALE MEATS LTD
LONDON (SW15 4AE)
Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 September 2025
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Summary
Heanens Wholesale Meats are looking to take on a Butcher Apprentice. This Apprenticeship is the perfect starting point for an individual who is looking to get into the butchery industry. You will work with a highly reputable and knowledgeable butcher to develop a wide skillset to ensure you can kick start your career in this exciting industry.
- Wage
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£16,000 a year
- Training course
- Butcher (level 2)
- Hours
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5 Days per week between the hours of 7.00am - 4.00pm. (Days TBC) You will be required to work Saturdays and will be given 1 day of during the week.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Knife skills
- Preparing joints for sale
- Stock management and control
- Customer service skills
- Food safety certificate
Where you'll work
5-7 PETERSFIELD RISE
PUTNEY
LONDON
SW15 4AE
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 Apprenticeship Standard
- Level 1 Food Safety
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Butchery and a valuable skill to learn, but is a very fast pace industry. You will be lifting and moving heavy items daily. Please be aware that you will be standing for the majority of your shift, this can be tiring until you build strength and stamina that come with this position.
About this employer
Heanens Wholesale Meats are a family run Business who have been well established for over 40years. Serving a range of customers from Football Clubs, London Hotels , Restaurants and Schools. We are proud to have many loyal employees who have been with us for over 10years.
After this apprenticeship
- Once quatified you will be able to progress to level 3 or to a part or fultime position as a Butcher
- The skills you will learn can also be an advantage towards a career as a Chef or catering
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MEAT EAST ANGLIA TRADES (IPSWICH) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000339962.
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Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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