Seafood business apprenticeships
This page has information on:
- What are apprenticeships and how do they work?
- How can apprenticeships support your business?
- Find out about fish frier apprenticeships
- Find out about fishmonger apprenticeships
- Find out about apprenticeships for fish processors and seafood manufacturers
- Find out about fishing apprenticeships
- Find out about aquaculture apprenticeships
- Businesses using seafood apprenticeships
Apprenticeships combine practical on the job training with additional study. An apprentice is employed by a business and is paid while they gain experience and knowledge, important to their job role and chosen apprenticeship.
We work together with organisations that offer apprenticeships across the UK for the seafood industry. There are many different options available, depending on where you are based.
You can find out more about the different types of apprenticeships available in each sector by following the links below.
Funding for apprenticeships also varies across the UK so you should contact a local apprenticeship provider to confirm what rules are in place in your area.
You can find contact details for some apprenticeship providers further down this page.
Apprenticeships can:
- Support staff development so that employees gain important skills and knowledge
- Be directly relevant to the operations in your business
- Help to boost productivity and quality of output
- Attract new talent
- Lead to more applications when advertising job roles
- Be taken by existing staff as well as new recruits.
A variety of apprenticeships are available to help businesses in the fish and chip industry ensure that their staff have the knowledge and skills to become excellent fish friers.
Fish frying businesses can access Level 2 and Level 3 fish and shellfish industry framework based apprenticeships in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These frameworks have some fish frying and cooked food/food service content to draw from.
In England the available apprenticeships are standards-based production chef apprenticeships available at Levels 2 and 3.
We work with apprenticeship providers across the UK to support fish frier apprenticeships. Contact your local provider to discuss your requirements.
Scotland
Polaris Learning - contact Helen Rush on 07780 772508 or helen@polaris-learning.com
Wales
Coleg Cambria, contact their Employer Engagement team on 0300 3030006 or employers@cambria.ac.uk (North Wales fish friers only)
Cambrian Training – contact Mark Llewellyn on 01938 555893 or email mark@cambriantraining.com
Northern Ireland
Southern Regional College
England
HIT Training – contact 0800 093 5892 or info@hittraining.co.uk
A variety of apprenticeships are available to help businesses in the seafood retail industry ensure that their staff have the knowledge and skills to become excellent fishmongers.
Seafood retail businesses can access Level 2 and Level 3 fish and shellfish industry framework based apprenticeships in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These frameworks have a significant fishmonger content to draw from.
In England the available apprenticeship is a standards-based fishmonger apprenticeship at Level 2.
We work with apprenticeship providers across the UK to support fish frier apprenticeships. Contact your local provider to discuss your requirements.
Scotland
Polaris Learning - contact Helen Rush on 07780 772508 or helen@polaris-learning.com
Wales Cambrian Training – contact Mark Llewellyn on 01938 555893 or email mark@cambriantraining.com
Northern Ireland
Southern Regional College
England
There are two providers of fishmonger apprenticeships, but only one is supporting independent fishmongers - MEAT Ipswich.
Fish and shellfish processors businesses can access Level 2 and Level 3 fish and shellfish industry framework based apprenticeships in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These frameworks have a significant processing and manufacturing content to draw from.
In England the available apprenticeship is a standards-based food and drink process operator apprenticeship at Level 2.
We work with apprenticeship providers across the UK to support fish frier apprenticeships. Contact your local provider to discuss your requirements.
Scotland
Polaris Learning - contact Helen Rush on 07780 772508 or helen@polaris-learning.com
Wales
Cambrian Training – contact Mark Llewellyn on 01938 555893 or email mark@cambriantraining.com
Northern Ireland
Southern Regional College
England
In England there's a number of food and drink apprenticeships that are suitable for different roles in seafood businesses. We are working with several apprenticeship training providers to make these standards-based apprenticeships available across most of England. Grimsby Institute are one such provider and this is their 2022 offer to the seafood processing sector.
For further guidance on an appropriate apprenticeship provider please contact onshore@seafish.co.uk
In England there is a fishing apprenticeship available. For information visit the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education website using the link below.
Aquaculture apprenticeships are currently being revised for Scotland by Lantra. We are working closely with Lantra and other organisations on this revision.
Access the video below to find out how award-winning fish and chip shop Krispies of Exmouth use apprenticeships:
Case studies about fish and chip apprenticeships can be accessed on the following links below:
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Apprentices are catch of the day for Plymouth fish and chip shop
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Frying high with apprentice Hollie Hutton
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Yorkshire fish and chip chain puts apprenticeships on the menu
Contact for further information
For further information and advice on apprenticeships, please contact us using the details below.
For enquiries about fish frier, fishmonger or seafood processing apprenticeships, contact our Onshore Training team, email onshore@seafish.co.uk
For enquiries about aquaculture apprenticeships contact our Onshore Training team, email onshore@seafish.co.uk
For enquiries about fishing apprenticeships, contact our Seagoing Training team, email training@seafish.co.uk