Course details

Summary

This is the next step after the New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 4) and will prepare you to work as a senior chef, producing advanced dishes in a professional kitchen. You’ll learn to plan and produce a broad range of larder, meat, poultry and fish dishes and to develop and design advanced dishes and menus.

The programme provides individuals who are employed in senior cheffing positions with a credential that enhances your employment opportunities in a professional kitchen.

The programme offers a specialist strand in advanced general cookery skills.

What you will learn

You will learn to:

• Select and apply staffing strategies to meet performance targets.
• Plan and monitor workflow and supplies in a commercial kitchen.
• Manage operating procedures and compliance requirements for operational roles.
• Manage staff relationships for operational roles.
• Additionally, the cookery strand will teach you to:
• Plan and produce a broad range of meat, poultry and fish and larder dishes using advanced preparation, cookery and presentation techniques.
• Plan, develop and design advanced dishes and menus suitable for a commercial hospitality environment.

Career opportunities and pathways include any role within the hospitality industry that requires chefs in senior positions producing advanced dishes in a professional kitchen.

Courses in this programme

Compulsory Courses

• 5565.001 - Staffing Strategies and Performance Targets
• 5565.002 - Workflow and Supply Planning Management
• 5565.003 - Managing Operating Procedures
• 5565.004 - A la Carte Menus
• 5565.005 - Special Event Menus
• 5565.006 - Degustation Menus
• 5565.007 - Buffet Menus
• 5565.008 - Off-site Catering

Entry criteria

All applicants must:

• be at least 16 years old at the time the programme commences
• be able to read, write, and communicate in English at a basic level
• be physically able to complete the programme specific outcomes
• Hold the New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 4), or equivalent

English Requirements:

• Academic IELTS score of 5.5 with no band score lower than 5
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 550 (with an essay score of 5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) score of 46 (with a writing score of 20)
• FCE or FCE for schools with a score of 162. No less than 154 in each skill
• NZCEL Level 4 with the Academic endorsement
• PToE (Academic) score of 42
• City & Guilds IESOL - B2 Communicator with a score of 42