Apprentice - Butcher
MR W DUTTON
TARPORLEY (CW6 0QG)
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026
Posted on 22 April 2026
Contents
Summary
Dutton’s Butchers is a thriving family-run business close to Chester, looking for an apprentice to join our team to progress their career in butchery.
- Wage
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£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Butcher (level 2)
- Hours
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To be confirmed at the interview.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Cutting & Preparation of meat from primal cuts to sub-primal cuts.
- Topping up shop counters to include prepacked multi-deck, pies, and the dairy section.
- Serving customers.
- Assist in washing and cleaning of equipment and maintaining a high standard of hygiene throughout.
- Assist in the bakery sec on, preparing and
cooking products - Assist in preparing products for the counter
- Vac packing and wrapping of products.
- Manual handling - taking delivery of boxed products, lifting and carrying.
- Handling of sharp tools, operating various equipment, e.g., mincers, slicing machines,weigh scales, tills, card machines.
Where you'll work
4 CHURCH STREET
KELSALL
TARPORLEY
CW6 0QG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REASEHEATH 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
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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Creative
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Dutton’s Butchers is a thriving family-run business
close to Chester, looking for an apprentice to join our team to progress their career in butchery. The suitable candidate needs to be reliable, enthusiastic, have attention to detail and enjoy working with the general public, be able to work as a proactive member of our small team and have an adaptable, can do approach to work.
After this apprenticeship
As a business, we would aim to successfully train an apprentice in all aspects of Butchery and retail, so that we would be able to consider offering a position within the team upon completion of the course.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REASEHEATH COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000027580.
Apply now
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026