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Check out our current apprenticeship vacancies, any one of which could set you on the path to a great new future. Our list is constantly changing so stay up to date by keeping an eye on the website. And if you can't find what you're looking for, give us a ring - we may be able to help find the perfect apprenticeship for you. If you'd like to talk to us about one of the vacancies, or apprenticeships in general, please contact our Employment & Skills Advisors on 01223 418778 or email training@camre.ac.uk.

Current Apprenticeship Vacancies

Day to day administrative duties in a busy general office to include:

  • Filing
  • Photocopying
  • Telephone work
  • Answering customer queries
  • Using email
  • Document management
  • Raising customer documentation
  • Dealing with incoming and outgoing mail
  • Helping to place orders with external suppliers
  • Helping to organise meetings & conferences
Employer & location:Heraeus Noblelight Ltd, Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:Good spoken & written English. Numerate. Some knowledge of Microsoft.
Skills required:Calm, articulate, enjoys being busy, keen & smart.
Personal attributes:Good team player, friendly & good humoured. Ability to interact with people of most ages.
Hours:37.5hrs, Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5 pm (1 hr lunch)
Pay:£165 per week
Closing date:25/08/2012
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The Apprentice will be required to assist in production of condiments and sauce under supervision. The job includes cleaning, prepare vessels before cooking, cooking, recipe allocation, development, labelling, packing shirk rapping, inventory control, taking goods in, dispatching goods, etc.

 

Employer & location:Quality Food Ingredients Co. Limited in Wisbech
Type of Apprenticeship:Food and Drink, Level 2
Qualifications required:A Levels preferable with basic food hygiene certificate (not compulsory)
Skills required:Hard worker, good time keeping & proficiency in numbers.
Personal attributes:Hygienic person.
Hours:40hrs 9am-6pm, shift work on rota system. (5 days)
Pay:£104 per week
Closing date:26/06/2012
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You will be taught how to assemble and adjust pneumatic arrangements and interpret electrical schematics on company products to specification and drawing.
You will use various hand tools and power tools, i.e. soldering iron, hand and pillar drill, grinding wheel and stud gun.

1) Understand the mechanical assembly of products. Follow defined procedures, specifications and drawings to allow full assembly of systems.
2) Assemble and adjust pneumatic arrangements on products to specification and drawing.
3) Understand and interpret electrical schematics to wire products.
4) Operate safety, hand tools and power tools.
5) Communicate non-conformances to Supervisor(s).
6) Attend college, complete homework and NVQ assignments.
7) Contribute to ways that the departments quality and efficiency can be improved.
8) Maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment.
9) Be fully conversant and complaint with Company policies, procedures and specifications (including Technical, HR, Quality and Health and Safety Policies) in order to maintain a safe and controlled environment.
10) Any other reasonably duties as instructed by your line manager.

Employer & location:Mettler-Toldeo Safeline X-Ray Ltd in Royston
Type of Apprenticeship:Engineering Manufacture
Qualifications required:NVQ level 2. GCSE's in English, Maths, Science, Design Technology and/or Resistant Materials.
Skills required:Methodical and coordination.
Personal attributes:Can do attitude, passion to learn, attention to detail and have the ability to follow work instructions.
Hours:37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Pay:£ 230.00
Closing date:10/06/2012
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As our Apprentice Administrator you will provide valuable support to the rest of the team to help us achieve the high standards that strive to achieve.
You responsibilities will include the following things:
  • To contact the staff on a weekly basis to request their availability to work and list on the weekly availability sheet.
  • To renew advert on free job sites.
  • To fill in the weekly availability sheet, list all the shifts that have been booked in advance.
  • Write the daily diary on the board listing meetings, interviews and training etc.
  • Chase all outstanding references for the applicants waiting to be processed.
  • Monitor the stages of any pending CRBs via the online tracking service.
  • Assist with payroll duties each Monday sorting payslips in envelopes.
  • Check/sort/allocate the post each morning.
  • Post any mail at the end of each working day.
  • Chase any outstanding timesheets from the list generated.
  • Ring new candidates on a daily basis to confirm any interviews or training for the following working day.
  • To print off and replenish stocks of all forms used at Availl to ensure all paperwork is readily available to the team.
  • Print off training certificates as directed.
  • Input all shifts on Caras as directed including any monthly block bookings from establishments.
  • Print out any training materials/handouts as directed.
Employer & location:Availl Healthcare, Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:
Skills required:Commercially focussed and highly motivated. A good communicator with an excellent telephone manger. Computer literate. Able to work well under pressure.
Personal attributes:Smart, personable, confident and a good team player. Friendly, warm and helpful nature. Not afraid to voice their opinion. Flexible, committed and reliable.
Hours:Monday to Friday 8:45am-5pm
Pay:£110 per week
Closing date:05/06/2012
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The following outline gives the key accountability for the role:
  • Learn about & become fully conversant in Cambridgeshire ACRE's social enterprise business, currently Halls for Hire & the Community Oil Buying Scheme.
  • Plan, organise, attend & take part in events to promote Cambridgeshire ACRE's social enterprise businesses.
  • Support the development of Cambridgeshire ACRE's social enterprise businesses through researching potential customers & liaising with potential  existing customers.
  • Assist with the maintenance of the customer databases for Cambridgeshire ACRE's social enterprise businesses & produce customer communications (by letter or email)
  • Assist with the development & management of appropriate communications & marketing materials to promote Cambridgeshire ACRE's social enterprise businesses, including the design & preparation of appropriate promotional materials such as case studies and the production/distribution of publications such as our membership magazine, Community Action, and our electronic News Digest.
  • Adhere to Cambridgeshire ACRE's service & project management processes including maintenance of service/project records; use of the ACT! Customer Relationship Management system; preparation of progress monitoring & evaluation reports for the Cambridgeshire ACRE Board.
  • Contribute to the wider goals of Cambridgeshire ACRE through being a positive & supportive team member.
Employer & location:CambridgeshireAcre in Littleport
Type of Apprenticeship:Marketing Level 2
Qualifications required:5 GCSE's grade C and above or equivalent
Skills required:Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to contribute within team environments, developed organisational skills and attention to detail.
Personal attributes:Flexible approach with a willingness to work outside normal hours on occasions, ability to travel independently.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (37 hours per week)
Pay:£96.20 per week
Closing date:03/06/2012
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As an integral member of our busy team you will be undertaking the following duties:

  • Meet & greet visitors to Cambridge Online
  • Work as part of the Customer Service Team to provide a quality visitor experience.
  • Collate staff time sheet information
  • Raise sales invoices
  • Schedule work commitments and required resources
  • Update Customer Relationship and Finance applications
  • Provide admin support to the Sales Team where required
  • Photocopying, scanning, etc
  • Reception duties as required
Employer & location:Cambridge Online Systems, Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Business and Administration
Qualifications required:5 GCSE's including Maths & English grade C or above (or equivalent)
Skills required:Highly self motivated individual who wishes to pursue a career in Business Administration. A desire to make a positive contribution to the business by delivering efficiency benefits through effective admin services.
Personal attributes:A passion to learn about Business Administration in a fast moving and dynamic environment where prioritises change at short notice requiring quick responses.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (35 hours per week)
Pay:£120.00
Closing date:03/06/2012
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The position will be working within the small friendly call centre making a team of 8 operators and the Job Purpose is to answer incoming calls from client in a bright & bubbly manner and ALWAYS with a Smile, whilst maintaining a high level of customer service on every call.

Duties include:

• Answering incoming calls between 1-4 rings
• Taking fully qualified messages, including full name of caller, company name, telephone number and nature of the call, address and source (if relevant).
• Carrying out order requests via clients’ e-commerce sites and processing orders on-line and taking payment details.
• Carrying out diary bookings via clients’ online diary site specific to instructions.
• Promptly relay back the message to our client via their preferred choice i.e. fax, email, SMS or call through.
• To attend occasional out of hours Team Meetings and help implement future plans and systems.

Responsibilities include:
• Quality control of your messages throughout the day
• Regular revision of all clients instructions/Activities
Employer & location:Heyes Communications Ltd, Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Customer Service, Level 2
Qualifications required:English GCSE Grade B or higher ( or equivalent qualifications)
Skills required:Minimum Typing speed of 40 WPM, Microsoft Windows PC skills, ability to demonstrate a high level of written English so that messages are accurate, precise & correctly spelled, Ability to work as part of a team.
Personal attributes:Punctual & Reliable, excellent telephone manner, bright and bubbly personality, Flexible attitude toward broadening knowledge and skills base.
Hours:9am-6pm, Monday to Friday
Pay:£192 per week
Closing date:31/05/2012
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Forces Recruitment Services specialise in placing ex-military personnel into the civilian workplace. we require a Recruitment consultant apprentice for this entry level position within our Duxford Office.
The ideal Candidate will have strong administrative skills and be confident in speaking to candidates and clients on the phone. You will have experience in working with MS Office and MS Office.
You will be responsible for managing client and candidate databases as well as resourcing candidates and submitting details to clients for consideration.
This position would ideally suit an individual looking to develop a long term career in recruitment with an opportunity to progress within a small but growing business.
You may be required to produce proof of qualifications, if these are required for the role by the hirer, law or a professional body.
Interested applicants will be expected to complete and return by email a simple application form to which CVs must be incorporated.
Employer & location:Forces Recruitment Services, Duxford
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:Studying towards Customer Services or Business Studies Qualifications.
Skills required:MS Office & Outlook, strong IT skills and have attention to detail.
Personal attributes:Confident, good communicator & well organised.
Hours:30 hours per week
Pay:£118 per week
Closing date:31/05/2012
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Some of your daily duties will include:
  • Taking calls
  • Booking cabs
  • Emailing
  • Checking the website for bookings
  • Accepting deliveries
  • Liaising with customers both on the phone and face to face
  • Basic administration
  • Filing
  • Typing
  • Working as part of a team
  • Dealing with in house computer system
Employer & location:Cam Cab Ltd, Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:Good written & spoken English.
Skills required:The ability to be multi task and remain polite and friendly to customers.
Personal attributes:Calm, friendly & confident.
Hours:40 hours per week. 8am-5pm Mondays to Fridays.
Pay:£120 per week
Closing date:31/05/2012
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The work will be mainly reception based with other jobs included around this. You will be required to maintain strict confidentiality and work within the practice policies and procedure. Some of the tasks include:
  • Answer and make telephone calls
  • Making appointments
  • Prescriptions
  • Deal with general enquiries
  • Registering patients
  • Enter requests into the visit book
  • Prepare lists and notes for surgeries
  • Entering patient information
  • Filing
  • Scanning
  • Copying notes
  • Dealing with medical records
  • Looking after notice boards and waiting area
  • Various other admin tasks.

You will be expected to provide a high standard of care to patients and other agencies as well as internal staff.

Employer & location:Firs House Surgery, Impington
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:Grade C or above in English & Maths.
Skills required:Good level of English & Maths, IT literate, keyboard skills would be an advantage, good telephone manner.
Personal attributes:Understanding of confidentiality, reliable & punctual, flexible, able to use initiative, patient, articulate, able to work well in a busy environment. Smart appearance - to wear black trousers/skirt with black & white tops (practice will give £100 towards this) Car driver/owner - useful but not essential.
Hours:Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week
Pay:£100 per week
Closing date:31/05/2012
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Housekeeping Responsibilities

- To carry out cleaning duties as laid down in the Hospice cleaning schedule, and as instructed by the Facilities Co-ordinator or Care Service Manager.
- To wash, dry and iron clothes, bed linen, towels and soft furnishings using the hospice laundry. If required, to arrange specialist external cleaners for complex tasks.
- To ensure that all cleaning materials are stored as directed.
- To be aware of C.O.S.H.H Regulations, and to ensure that only the cleaning products listed are used.
- To inform the Facilities Co-ordinator when stocks of cleaning materials are running low.
- To liaise with the Facilities Co-ordinator and Infection Control Co-ordinator to ensure that Department of Health guidelines on cleaning standards are adhered to.

Catering Responsibilities:

- To prepare and serve foods when required, under the direction of the lead cook adhering to guidelines and regulations with reference to food handling/hygiene and preparation. This will include day-to-day meals within the hospice, sandwiches and other foods when required for special events.
- To ensure specialised planned menus are adhered to.
- To take responsibility for maintaining the cleanliness of the kitchen, and ensuring that the cleaning schedule is adhered to.
- To take responsibility for health and safety matters in the kitchen, and to comply with current food hygiene regulations.
- To ensure that systems such as refrigerator temperatures monitors, and food labelling are carried out at all times.
- To supervise volunteers, if required.
- To undertake any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job, the title of the post and its grading, as requested by your line manager or his/her higher level of authority.

Employer & location:East Anglia Children Hospices in Quidenham
Type of Apprenticeship:Hospitality Services
Qualifications required:Basic food hygiene - desirable.
Skills required:Ability to prepare basic meals, experience and ability to meet food hygiene requirements, planning and organisational skills.
Personal attributes:Self motivating, ability to work independently, high standard of communications and interpersonal skills,good team worker, flexible approach to working hours
Hours:37.5 hrs per week, usually worked over 5 days p/w.
Pay:£ 256.00
Closing date:27/05/2012
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Vacancy Description

Your duties will include:

  • Providing 1st line support to users
  • Setting up machines for new users
  • Creating/editing user accounts
  • Writing user guides
  • Monitoring and responding to server log entries
  • Monitoring and responding to Security alerts
  • Patch management
  • Software Asset Management
  • Ensure systems and software are implemented in-line with the Group It Strategy.
Employer & location:Brady Plc in Cambridge Science Park
Type of Apprenticeship:IT, Software, Web & Telecoms Professionals
Qualifications required:Age dependant, but minimum of 5 GCSE's.
Skills required:Good communication, both written and verbal. Problem solving techniques.
Personal attributes:Reliable and trustworthy, able to work on own initiative, as well as part of a team, willingness to travel.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm (37.5 hrs per week)
Pay:£150.00
Closing date:27/05/2012
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You will be preparing and cooking fresh meat, poultry, fish and pasta, cleaning and maintaining a safe and hygienic working environment - all to high standards. Please see website for dish examples: www.coho.co.uk

Employer & location:Coho Restaurant in Harlow
Type of Apprenticeship:Professional Cookery
Qualifications required:None.
Skills required:A passion for cooking and preparing food to a high standard (with flair) is essential.
Personal attributes:looking for a challenge.
Hours:Tuesday to Sundays - to be based on a split shift system, which will include evenings and weekends. Times approx. 11:30 - 2:30pm and 6:30pm - 10:30pm/finish.
Pay:£210 per week
Closing date:27/05/2012
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The successful Apprentice will be joining a forward-thinking, customer-focused Company with a small team of professional and motivated staff.
This position will need an enthusiastic candidate able to develop themselves within the role to actively sell part of the instrument range and the future servicing of them. Using all sales-related tasks, this position requires a computer literate and numerate individuals.
Working closely with the Sales Office Manager and the Service Administrator, duties will include:

  • Direct telephone contact with our existing customers and potential new customers
  • Email correspondence
  • Developing skills to sell consumable items
  • Service contracts and PBI-Dansentsor headspace analysers.

The continuous update of the CRM database to ensure our contact data is current.

Employer & location:Tendring Pacific Ltd in South Cambridge Business Park
Type of Apprenticeship:Sales & Telesales, Level 2
Qualifications required:Min 5 GCSE's including Maths and English (or equivalent qualifications)
Skills required:Confident telephone manner/skills, Good IT skills - knowledge of Word/Excel/Outlook is essential.
Personal attributes:Intelligent, confident person who is able to communicate well. A proactive approach and willingness to work hard to develop their career potential.
Hours:8:30am - 5pm, Monday to Thursday. 8:30am - 2:30pm Friday. inclusive of an hour per day for Apprenticeship module portfolio building. Inclusive of 30 min lunch hour.
Pay:£131.25 per week
Closing date:27/05/2012
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A vacancy has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join Funky Monkeys, a children's shop based in Littleport, Ely.
This is the first full time position within our new shop which has only been open since September 2011.
The largest part of our business involves selling children's clothing and equipment on behalf of other people - which has proved extremely popular. We have a small range of new items which is an area we are working to expand.
You will learn every aspect of the business which will include stock sorting and preparation, rotation, displays, till work, customer service, client accounts, souring, maintaining our online shop and more!
You will work alongside the two business owners on a day to day basis in our shop in Littleport.
Occasionally we may need help at external events such as mother and baby shows. This is rare and will probably be only three or four times a year.
This is an exciting time for us as a new business. Our concept is proving popular and we are looking to build towards the future. We want someone who is interested in building towards their own future alongside Funky Monkeys as further opportunities open.
We see your Apprenticeship as a stepping stone to a great future!

 

Employer & location:Funky Monkeys, Littleport
Type of Apprenticeship:Retail Level 2
Qualifications required:GCSE maths and English Grade D or equivalent.
Skills required:Experience with children (not essential) basic maths skills.
Personal attributes:Like or experience with children, enthusiastic, common sense, confident to deal with public, honest, polite and well mannered.
Hours:Mon-Fri 9:30-4:30 & Sats 9:30-2:30 (except Thurs
Pay:£90 per week
Closing date:27/05/2012
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This role will support the two full-time, experienced & qualified, medial secretaries. Working together as a team you will provide comprehensive administrative support to the consultant enabling her to deliver high quality care to patients. You will be taught, and gain experience in all aspects of medical & business administration. You initial responsibilities, for which you will be given full training, will be to prepare patients' files for clinic, file all correspondence accurately, telephone patients to remind them of appointments and chase test results from hospitals and clinics. As your training and confidence progress you will take on further responsibilities such as typing patient correspondence, raising invoices to patients, recording money received from patients, booking appointments for patients and liaising with other medical and administrative staff to ensure a high quality patient experience.
This is a stimulating and interesting role in which you can develop a wide range of business skills in a supportive, friendly and professional environment.

 

Employer & location:Cambridge Health and Performance Limited, Histon
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:2 A Levels (any grade) preferred. However this position is also open to any candidates who have GCSE Maths and English at Grade C or above. (or equivalent)
Skills required:You must be organised and be able to apply a methodical approach to your work. Attention to detail is very important. Ability to see a job through from beginning to end. Good IT skills, especially Microsoft Word and an ability to type is not essential but would be an advantage.
Personal attributes:You must be articulate and also be comfortable talking to people you don't know, both on the telephone and in person. You must have the ability to uphold patient confidentiality at all times. You will be committed to working hard and want to better yourself and your prospects.
Hours:Monday - Friday 8:45am-4:45pm (37.5 hrs per week)
Pay:£150 per week
Closing date:27/05/2012
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We want a keen, enthusiastic person who will in the first instance be happy to take on varying tasks such as helping with the sales and purchase ledger including filing and accurate data processing. Then, with support and training, becoming more involved in our debtor collection and creditor processes, using our various systems to feed into our Sage 50 finance system so that we can improve the way we run and ensure information for our tenants, suppliers and staff is provided in a timely manner. In time the role will require you to be involved in all areas of the finance team.

Tasks and Duties - reporting the Finance and Operations Manager.
1. Post - open finance post, date stamp and sort into sales ledger, purchase ledger and other. List cheques separately.
2. Archiving older information so that office is kept up to date and efficient. Managing the archives so that we can find information if necessary.
3.General - be aware of the Chart of Accounts and coding for sales and purchasing ledger.
4. Purchase Ledger - match purchase orders and delivery notes to purchase invoices and issue to managers for signature, coding where possible. Be aware of the various suppliers and keep Sage finance system up to date of any changes to supplier details. Keep invoices in the correct pending files until ready to be input into Sage.
5. Purchase Ledger - input invoices accurately into Sage, support Finance Administrator in preparing the payment run.
6. Purchase Ledger - file invoices.
7. Sales Ledger - input or import information into the IBCS System in preparation for producing sales invoices on a monthly basis. Ensure information on tenants and other customers is kept up to date. Prepare supporting information of invoices as tenants require it. file invoices and backing details according to invoice number.
8. Banking - be aware of the different bank accounts, downloading bank information and identifying it to Sales and Purchase ledger and inputting it into Sage accurately. Understand and support the direct debit process and system.
9. Month End - support the month end process by preparing necessary prints from Sage, identifying fixed assets and prepayment and accruals for the Finance and Operation Manager to analyse, input journals as requested.
10. Month End reporting - running reports to see how areas of the business are meeting their KPI's, exporting information into Excel and making sure it is presentable and easy to understand.
11. Study for relevant level of AAT qualification.
12. Other duties as may be required by the Finance and Operations Manager or Finance Administrator.

Employer & location:St. Johns Innovation Centre Ltd in Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Accounting
Qualifications required:A level Business Studies or Accounts or Economics or approx a years relevant experience in a finance team, or AAT Level 1.
Skills required:Attention to detail, numerate, IT knowledge - preferably Excel.
Personal attributes:Friendly, able to work in small team, enthusiastic and ability to use their own initiative, knows when to ask for help.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
Pay:£190.40
Closing date:23/05/2012
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Duties to include:
- To form an integral part of a highly motivated kitchen team.
- To ensure that all Health, Safety and Hygiene policies and practices are in place and adhered completing all relevant documentation as required.
- To maintain communication with front of house team to ensure great customer service is delivered from the kitchen.
- To ensure food stock is stored, labelled and rotated correctly.
- To deliver the food to the customer ensuring the quality and service times are in line with customer expectations and every dish is delivered to specification every time.
- To ensure that food is served to the customer at the correct temperature and ensuring hygienic food handling is always maintained.
- To report any faults.defects to the Head Chef/Kitchen Manager and or Pub Manager.

Carrying out cleaning as directed by head chef/Kitchen Manager and or Pub Manager. Ensure all end of day cleaning is completed as directed by cleaning rotas, Head Chef or Kitchen Manager.
The High Flyer is a classic carvery soon to be merged with the Great British carvery. This means that preparation is key to success. All the veg is fresh so the prep in essential.

 

Employer & location:High Flyer in Ely
Type of Apprenticeship:Professional Cookery, Level 2
Qualifications required:N/A
Skills required:Strong communication, good team player - demonstrates how to work well with other people, listens well and is able to follow instructions.
Personal attributes:Displays a passion for high standards and can demonstrate adherence to a high standards, understands the need to work unsociable hours and will work flexibly to meet the demands of the business, genuine interest in delivering for the customer.
Hours:Thursday to Sunday 10am-6pm (32 hours per week)
Pay:£83.20 per week
Closing date:20/05/2012
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This is a general administration role that will consist of some time spend manning both the main school reception and then Sports Centre reception (full training and support given) as well as carrying out administration tasks to support the work of our college. These tasks will include, answering the telephone and handling messages/general enquiries, letters to parents, filing, photocopying documents, welcoming visitors to the college, completing administration work for faculties and liaising with staff.
There will be interaction with students at the college so candidates must be comfortable working in a busy school environment with some 1050 students.

 

Employer & location:Bottisham Villege College, Bottisham
Type of Apprenticeship:Business Administration Level 2
Qualifications required:GCSE English (or equivalent) as well as being fluent in the language.
Skills required:Ability to communicate well at all levels. Confident in the use of IT e.g. Microsoft word, email etc
Personal attributes:You must have a smart appearance, be conscientious and have a sense of humour.
Hours:37.5 hrs p/w, Monday to Friday 8:30am - 4pm
Pay:£110 per week
Closing date:20/05/2012
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The job will be very busy with lots of food preparation. You would be working in a high pressured environment to tight deadlines, you would need to take instruction and also have the capability to use your own common sense. You would spend long parts of the day standing, your own duties will include cleaning and some washing up you will also be inspected to complete company paperwork.
Some of your duties will include:
- Preparing food, from local ingredients supplied by local companies.
- Cooking of food items
- Food service
- Health and Safety paperwork
- Cleaning duties
- Using catering equipment
- Menu planning, which will run alongside seasonal produce.
- Recipe data

 

Employer & location:Lunchtime Uk Ltd in Cambridge
Type of Apprenticeship:Professional Cookery, Level 2
Qualifications required:None required for this role.
Skills required:Passion for food, communication skills, interest in food.
Personal attributes:Hard working. Able to work in a team, clean and hygienic.
Hours:30 hrs - Monday to Friday 8am-2pm
Pay:£78 per week
Closing date:20/05/2012
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We have a position for Commis Chef Apprentice within our brigade, his/her role will be to assist a Chef de Partie with the required mis en place for their section and to assist during busy services (possibly running the section unsupervised on quieter services)
The Food will all be freshly prepared on site. We use a number of classical techniques (confit, sautee, roast, grill etc) as well as using modern techniques (sous vide, sperification, gelefication, emulsions and foams.)
We do a log of in house fish preparation and butchery, and we focus on using more economical cuts emphasise the use of technical cooking to deliver exciting results.
The role will require the Apprentice to adhere to all the cleaning requirements as per the company policy and EHO regulations as well as any COSHH and other necessary health and safety procedures.

 

Employer & location:The Plough in Coton
Type of Apprenticeship:Professional Cookery, Level 2
Qualifications required:None required for this role.
Skills required:Must be comfortable using a knife.
Personal attributes:Punctual, organised, clean and tidy, well presented. Must have a passion for food and a willingness to learn. Must have self discipline and a desire to succeed. Willingness and passion. A competitive nature will always make for a great Chef.
Hours:35 hours per week
Pay:£105.00
Closing date:20/05/2012
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This vacancy is for a multi-skilled hospitality Apprentice. You will learn and gain experience in all aspects of the business, including kitchen, bar, and waitressing, offering excellent customer service.

Employer & location:Horns & Horseshoes in Harlow
Type of Apprenticeship:Professional Cookery, Level 2
Qualifications required:None required for this role.
Skills required:Previous experience working in a people focused environment would be an advantage. Must be a good communicator.
Personal attributes:Enthusiastic/team player, with an outgoing personality.
Hours:Monday to Sunday, split shifts
Pay:£ 90.00
Closing date:20/05/2012
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 The role will mainly entail supporting the food preparation of this new diet delivery service and also some delivers if possible. Preparing food for cooking, chopping/peeling vegetables, making salads, cooking meats, poultry and a whole host of healthy foods. Some cleaning/washing up. Making chocolates, cakes and nutmilks.
Someone who in time will take on an active role in creating menus and recipes that will delight out customers, as well as someone who sees what needs to be done and is prepared to get stuck in and get their hands dirty.
The work will be split between deliveries (15% approx) Kitchen help (30-40% approx) and 1 day per week at college (Cambridge Regional College)
Ideally someone who has a driving licence and will do some early deliveries and be prepared to make collections from suppliers

Employer & location:Cambridge Superfoods, Milton
Type of Apprenticeship:Hospitality & Catering Level 2
Qualifications required:English language B, Science B, Maths C. Qualifications in Business studies, Physical Education or Food Technology an advantage (not essential)
Skills required:Good written English, numerate and computer and internet literate. Experience of web content management systems. Experience in catering / food hygiene
Personal attributes:Confidence & tact in dealing with the general public. Driver with own car.Able to work under own initiative.
Hours:Mon-Thurs 6:15am -2:15pm & Friday 6:15am - 10:15am
Pay:83.20 per week
Closing date:20/05/2012
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The Apprentice will be involved in all aspects of the manufacturing process (slip casting and pressing) and also helping to produce tooling (lathe work and milling), this will depend of the ability of the applicant, the work involved using hand tools and is mainly performed at a bench (or operating a machines/s) to learn more about what we do go to www.almath.co.uk . This is not a sitting down job and the applicant will need to be fit and healthy as some lifting will be involved.

 

Employer & location:Almath Crucibles Limited in Newmarket
Type of Apprenticeship:Laboratory and Science Technicians
Qualifications required:GCSE in Maths and English grade C or above (or equivalent)
Skills required:Dexterity and good concentration required.
Personal attributes:Ability to produce consistent quality products after training. Ability to work in a team or on your own. Good eyesight and dexterity are needed.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (35 hrs per week)
Pay:£ 175.00
Closing date:20/05/2012
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The role would include:
- Principally, creating and running the company's 'marketing through social media' activity.
- Database management
- Artwork and design
- Some work in buying e.g. print
- General help in all aspects of company life.

Employer & location:Cambridge Marketing Ltd in Fordham
Type of Apprenticeship:Marketing
Qualifications required:None necessarily required.
Skills required:Worldly intelligence, imagination, literacy and numeracy are essential. Work will involve direct contact with clients, therefore tact and humility are also required.
Personal attributes:Confidence, punctuality and willing to learn. Enthusiasm, commitment and knowledge of social media are however essential.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm (1 hr lunch break)
Pay:£100.00
Closing date:20/05/2012
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You will join a small team of warehouse assistants dealing with:

  • Sorting
  • Picking and packaging
  • Moving Products
  • You must be computer literate.
Employer & location:Kismet Kebabs in Latchingdon
Type of Apprenticeship:Warehousing and Storage
Qualifications required:Some computer skills would be an advantage.
Skills required:Good team work (someone who doesn't sit around waiting to be told what to do). Shows initiative. Well organised with the ability to work to tight timescales and demonstrate attention to detail. Good communications and interpersonal skills to effectively deal with contractors, other members of staff and occasionally customers. Ability to work individually and as an effective team member. Doesn't mind manual work and cleaning. Punctual - turns up on time and works hard
Personal attributes:We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is looking for a career in warehousing and storage. The ideal candidate must be outgoing, have a good manner and be able to lift heavy loads.
Hours:Monday to Friday 40 hours per week.
Pay:£160 per week
Closing date:20/05/2012
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Compose and distribute press releases reacting to local and national news stories affecting businesses, and promoting Chamber events and the benefits if membership.
Produce new articles for the Chamber magazine and website on behalf of the Chamber, partner organisations and member businesses.
Maintain content on the Chamber website including approving member-added content for publication.
Contribute copy to regular e-newsletters with responsibility for keeping multiple databases up to-date.
Conduct market research and analyse competitor activity to develop new marketing plans that promote the benefits of membership and products to key targets and member businesses.
Evaluate the effectiveness of marketing activities to measure return on investment and use results to develop new activities.
Use digital and social media to promote forthcoming events and enhance existing communications with the business community.
Assist as required at business events.

Employer & location:Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Type of Apprenticeship:Marketing
Qualifications required:5 five GCSE's or equivalent grades A*- C, must include English.
Skills required:Excellent IT skills across all Microsoft Office packages. Good writing skills, an eye for detail and excellent knowledge of spelling and grammar.
Personal attributes:Creative personality with lots of ideas, good at finding solutions to problems, confident speaking to new people of all ages and backgrounds and an ability to work effectively under pressure to tight deadlines.
Hours:Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (inc 1 hr lunch)
Pay:£150.00
Closing date:20/05/2012
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