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What can you do with a hospitality apprenticeship at Parkdean?

Posting date: 23/01/2025

Are you looking for a career with endless opportunities for growth and development? A career where you’re in the driver's seat? Well, we have the opportunity for you! Parkdean apprenticeships of course. Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week 2025, we thought we’d tell you all about our programmes here.

We have a thriving apprenticeship community, with over 150 places a year open to our new recruits.

We’ll walk you through how our apprenticeships in the hospitality industry work and how you can make the most of them when you join us.

What hospitality apprenticeships can you do at Parkdean?

Apprenticeships at Parkdean are designed to take you further in your amazing career with us, providing you with skills and behaviour training both personally and professionally. We offer Level 2 right the way up to Level 8 qualifications!

Our Apprenticeship Academies

Kitchen Academy

If the idea of taking on a Chef apprenticeship where you can develop a kitchen career from the ground up sounds good, we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re new to the kitchen or have many years of experience, we’ve definitely got the right programme for you.

Maintenance Academy

Our Maintenance Academy hospitality apprenticeships will help you develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviours needed to thrive across a range of areas including:

  • Electrical
  • Plastering
  • Plumbing
  • Tiling

Central Academy

New in 2024, our Central Academy was designed to further develop knowledge and skills to improve, stretch, and challenge our Parkdeaners at all levels!

Leadership Academy

Our Leadership Academy has been designed to identify and develop people within the business who want to climb their career ladder at Parkdean. We offer a range of development programmes designed to achieve just that.

A look at our apprenticeships

We’ve got a lot of different apprenticeship schemes at Parkdean, and, did you know that we’re an OFSTED-approved employer? Before choosing your apprenticeship with us, make sure you understand what level is right for you!

Level 2

Level 3

  • Chef/Sous Chef Senior Production Chef
  • Customer Service Specialist 
  • Hospitality Supervisor
  • Business Administration
  • Team Leader/Supervisor 

Level 4

  • Hospitality Manager 
  • Sous Chef/ Head Chef 


Level 5 

  • Operations Departmental Manager 

Scottish Apprenticeships

  • Hospitality Services Level 5
  • Food Production SCQF Level 5
  • Hospitality Supervision & Leadership
  • SCQF Level 7
  • Management SCQF Level 7
  • Management SCQF Level 8

Welsh Apprenticeships

  • NVQ Level 3 in Management
  • NVQ Level 4 in Management
  • VRQ Level 4 in Principles of Leadership and Management
  • NVQ Level 5 in Management
  • VRQ Level 5 in Principles of Leadership and Management

How do you sign up?

So, first of all, you have to register your interest, and our team checks availability and your eligibility! Pretty straightforward. We check eligibility for the following:

  • You’re a Parkdean employee
  • You’ve lived in England for a minimum of 3 years (this doesn’t apply to our Scottish or Welsh Apprenticeships)
  • You’re not currently in full-time education


After that’s all out of the way, you’ll hop onto an eligibility call and discuss the expectations of the course! There are a few more steps after that, so make sure to reach out to your team lead to find out more. We've got a handy infographic below too:

Apprenticeship FAQs

Which roles do we offer apprenticeships for?

We can offer apprenticeships to all established and seasonal Parkdeaners. Everyone has the opportunity if they are over 16 and not in full-time education.

What does it cost?

Essentially there is no cost for an apprenticeship for the training. There will be other costs such as travel to courses in the region.

What do our apprentices do in the winter when we are closed?

During the winter, our apprentices have completed their normal working hours and will also have banked 8 training hours that can be used for the ‘winter’ period. These training hours will be used to attend virtual or face-to-face sessions with the training officers. 

There will be an opportunity to earn extra money by working on one of our ‘Winter Wonderland Parks’ if you fancy it!

Kickstart your career with Parkdean hospitality apprenticeships

Now you know all about our apprenticeships what next? 

If you already work for us, speak to your team leader if you’re interested in pursuing the training programmes we covered! If you’re not yet a Parkdeaner, browse our available roles today.

Jodie Smith our consultant managing the role
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