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Intermediate Certificate: Bakery

Are you looking for a career in a bakery or catering outlet?  You will learn about craft baking, and the art of making bread and dough products, as well as gaining specialist knowledge in basic pastry, desserts and cake decoration. You will learn about food hygiene, customer care and the service of food and beverages.  This hands-on course will give you the opportunity to experience what is required for preparing, producing, promoting, and selling food products as part of an enterprise activity including running our successful in house bakery.  This course includes a work placement in the local area.

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Level:

Broadly comparable to SCQF Level 5

Duration:

  • One year full-time
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Who is this course for?

This course is for those who have studied bakery or professional cookery at a lower level, have an interest in bakery of industry experience.

What skills will I learn?

  • Team working
  • Problem solving
  • Organisational skills
  • Communication 
  • Numeracy

What will I study?

The course includes bakery, food preparation, and food service subjects in our fully-equipped bakery, production kitchen, and training restaurant facilities:

  • Craft baking
  • Cake decoration/finishing
  • Bread making and dough products
  • Pastry
  • Food service
  • Food hygiene
  • Enterprise
  • Core skills 

Application Information

What further study options are available?

  • Advanced Certificate: Patisserie
  • MA or SVQ courses in the industry

What career opportunities are there?

  • Bakery operative
  • Junior pastry chef
  • Junior cook
  • Bistro assistant

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