The Food Production industry has recognised, the meat and poultry sector of the food production industry has been striving towards meeting the ever rising standards of hygiene, safety, production quality and customer service. Inevitably, such factors are resulting in demands for higher levels of training and competency, especially in technical and production areas.

The level 2 Certificate for Proficiency in Meat and Poultry Industry Skills ( printable information) is designed for people working in the meat and poultry industry. It covers a broad range of skills from handling of livestock, slaughter, boning of the meat, factory butchery, meat products, meat wholesaling and retail butchery and butchery sales and service. It offers you the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge required to prove competency at work. It is also suitable if you are already competent in meat processing activities and are looking for ways of developing your existing skills and knowledge, perhaps to support multi-skilling or increase productivity at work to enable career development.

The 100% QCF Employer Resonse funding is again offered by intrinsic training Solutions if we deliver the programme for individuals working towards this Level 2 Certificate in Meat & Poultry Industry Skills providing the criteria is met. We are able to work across a wide geographical area from Derbyshire in the North Midlands to Milton Keynes across to Oxfordshire down into Middlesex and Suffolk up through Cambridgeshire and Linclonshire, Rutland and Nottinghamshire, although we are not limited to working just in these counties.

This specific 100% QCF funded qualification for the meat and poultry industry enabling individuals to work towards the specialist units for the jobs in the industry ranging from, tasks completed in the

The qualification offers a unique mix of

• Occupational skills and knowledge units covering processing, service and support competences                                          

combined with

• Detailed knowledge units relevant to the different job roles in the meat industry.

The flexible choice of units, allows selection of units that are most relevant to the individuals employment, learning and progression requirements. The choice of units also reflects the wide variety of jobs which people do in different types of companies in the meat industry.

The Units have been combined into three groupings:

Group A contains:

Livestock Handling and Welfare Units

Primary Processing Units

Secondary Processing and Butchery Units

Butchery Sales and Service Units

Support Operation Units

Group B contains:

The Common Operations units these offer you the opportunity to take competencies which are generic to the whole food and drink industry, such as food safety, working with others and quality.

Group C contains:

Meat Industry Knowledge Units