Data Technician Apprentice

JUST I.T. TRAINING LIMITED

Nottingham (NG16 3RY)

Closes in 25 days (Monday 17 November 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 22 October 2025


Summary

Relish School food are delighted to offer the exciting opportunity to recruit a Data Technician Apprentice to join their expanding business.

Wage

£15,311.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Data technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday- Friday, between 9.00am- 6.30pm. Shifts to be confirmed.

39 hours a week

Start date

Monday 24 November 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

Relish School food are delighted to offer the exciting opportunity to recruit a Data Technician Apprentice to join their expanding business.

With a passion for fresh cooked food and fantastic customer service, Relish School Food pride themselves on their bespoke approach to providing all required IT systems to support a busy school kitchen.

This role involves working with a range of internal and external stakeholders to support the everyday maintenance and operation of the Relish systems.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • 1st Line support handling
  • Security monitoring
  • Daily monitoring of data-storage
  • Daily cleansing of all stored data
  • Daily/Weekly/Monthly incremental archiving of data
  • Reporting and data analysis
  • Monitoring usage and reporting of system activity and load balances
  • Run functionality testing with assistance of the development team
  • Ensure Relish application documentation is kept up-to-date and amended to include new/updated functionality by production of both written and audio-visual user guides

Where you'll work

North Ridge House Eastwood
Nottingham
NG16 3RY

Training

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

Training provider

JUST IT TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Data technician (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Select and migrate data from already identified sources.
  • Format and save datasets.
  • Summarise, analyse and explain gathered data.
  • Combine data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
  • Use tools and/or apply basic statistical methods to identify trends and patterns in data.
  • Identify faults and cleanse data to improve data quality, for example identifying gaps, duplicate entries, outliers and unusual variances, including cross-checking across data elements or between data sources.
  • Audit data results for maintenance of data quality, reviewing a data set once all sources are combined, to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency and traceability from original data.
  • Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
  • Produce clear and consistent documentation of the data provided to others and of actions completed. Where appropriate or mandated by the working context, this documentation should use standard organisational templates.
  • Store, manage and distribute data in compliance with organisational, national, sector specific standards and or legislation.
  • Considers sustainability and ways to reduce impact. For example, using cloud storage, sharing links to files, avoid storing multiple versions of files, and reducing the use of physical handouts of documentation.
  • Parse data against standard formats, and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
  • Operate collaboratively in a working context that accounts for, and takes advantage of, the roles, skills and activities of others, especially those interacting with the same data sets or working towards a common goal.
  • Prioritise own activities within the context of the duties to be performed, taking account of any known or expected impact on others.
  • Follows equity, diversity and inclusion policies in the organisation for a common goal.
  • Demonstrate the ability to use different tools and methods to formulate and utilise effective prompts to research, apply, and evaluate data transformation techniques.
  • Select and migrate data from already identified sources.
  • Format and save datasets.
  • Summarise, analyse and explain gathered data.
  • Combine data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
  • Use tools and/or apply basic statistical methods to identify trends and patterns in data.
  • Identify faults and cleanse data to improve data quality, for example identifying gaps, duplicate entries, outliers and unusual variances, including cross-checking across data elements or between data sources.
  • Audit data results for maintenance of data quality, reviewing a data set once all sources are combined, to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency and traceability from original data.
  • Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
  • Produce clear and consistent documentation of the data provided to others and of actions completed. Where appropriate or mandated by the working context, this documentation should use standard organisational templates.
  • Store, manage and distribute data in compliance with organisational, national, sector specific standards and or legislation.
  • Considers sustainability and ways to reduce impact. For example, using cloud storage, sharing links to files, avoid storing multiple versions of files, and reducing the use of physical handouts of documentation.
  • Parse data against standard formats, and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
  • Operate collaboratively in a working context that accounts for, and takes advantage of, the roles, skills and activities of others, especially those interacting with the same data sets or working towards a common goal.
  • Prioritise own activities within the context of the duties to be performed, taking account of any known or expected impact on others.
  • Follows equity, diversity and inclusion policies in the organisation for a common goal.
  • Demonstrate the ability to use different tools and methods to formulate and utilise effective prompts to research, apply, and evaluate data transformation techniques.

Training schedule

  • Data Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
  • You will also receive full training and support from the Just IT Apprenticeship Team to increase your skills

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C and above)
  • Math (grade 4/C and above)

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

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Positive attitude
  • Motivated
  • Proficient in MS Office
  • Willingness to learn
  • Interest/experience Web Coding
  • Interest/experience App dev

About this employer

We are a hard-working, honest and reliable bunch of talented craft professionals that love delivering great food and service... ...backed by a super smart team of techies that have built and maintain our kitchen management and meal pre-order support software - Relish-OPS.

After this apprenticeship

  • Potential full-time position for the right candidate after completion of the apprenticeship

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

JUST IT TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347762.

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Closes in 25 days (Monday 17 November 2025 at 11:59pm)

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