Food Hygiene Course's

LOUBS

Hi there

I have been looking at completing food hygiene courses online and have found the following companies

food -hygiene-certificate

the safer food group

Train4food

Are they reputable and advice would be greatly received

I would prefer to go to my local college but I receive Carer's Allowance & Income Support and cannot get any help with funding, so looking for the most reasonable way of completing the courses.

Thank you

AllSpent

I did an online course with Virtual College and was very happy with it. Good company and course structure. Wasn't very expensive either.

makeyourdaddyproud

All it will do is lead to a miserable, low-paid, unrespected job.

It won't be worth it.

chewynut

Actually, a food hygiene cert is a good thing to have on your CV for any kind of job and it's an even better thing to have for day to day life. Especially if the OP is a carer for somebody else.

I had no idea that rice is one of the things most likely to give you food poisoning. How many people who haven't done the course know what the safe and legal temps are for cooking and reheating food? How many people have a decent knowledge of the difference between allergies and intolerances and how to safely handle them?

Don't be ridiculous by putting the OP off doing a course that is actually useful.

OP, aim for at least level 2. I did level one when I changed jobs and it's very basic compared to higher levels. Level one is more or less common sense.

GothicStirling

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

All it will do is lead to a miserable, low-paid, unrespected job.

It won't be worth it.

I wouldn't bet on it. A good chef can expect to earn £60,000+, a good catering manager can earn £40,000. I earn just as good a salary as my friends who are in jobs that require a degree.


The laughable thing about the comment you made, as my employer who I manage a tea-room for: "shops may disappear from the high street, computers will replace the need for banking clerks and sales people, but people will always want somewhere nice to go out to eat" (we made another million pounds in profits last year, all our staff received a 2% Christmas bonus and a 4.2% pay-raise in January, and we have just hired another 6 full-timers).

GothicStirling

When I was unemployed last year, the Job Centre paid for me to attend a course at a Learn Direct centre (which was handy as my current one had just run out, landed my current job a few days later).


I'm not sure how things work with Income Support, might be worth asking about.

makeyourdaddyproud

GothicStirling wrote: »

I wouldn't bet on it. A good chef can expect to earn £60,000+, a good catering manager can earn £40,000

Hmmm... Internet reports salary of £24k to £34k including bonuses.

I think I will wait for other people who have done chef work to report on your wild assertions on salary before I call the bs card.

And I will.

thorsoak

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

All it will do is lead to a miserable, low-paid, unrespected job.

It won't be worth it.

Oh - so the person who bakes your bread/cooks your child's school dinners/cooks the meal in your local restaurant - or 5 star restaurant does not deserve your respect?

Wonderful!

GothicStirling

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

Hmmm... Internet reports salary of £24k to £34k including bonuses.

I think I will wait for other people who have done chef work to report on your wild assertions on salary before I call the bs card.

And I will.

I could say the same about your BS.


Just one example:
http://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/exec-head-chef-hotel-gastro-pub-group/26569865#/jobs/chef-jobs

LOUBS

Hi there

Many thanks for all your replies, very much appreciated. Allspent, Chewynut, Gothicsterling, Thorsoak

Allspent - I'll have a look at Virtual college

GothicSterling - I'll get in touch with The Job Centre / Learn Direct see if they could help, never thought asking them. I did phone my local College's but they do not offer any financial help towards the cost. Find it difficult asking but will defitnatley push myself to find out. Sometimes it feels they just look down on you at the job centre, they just think your sponging off then and just plain lazy but I am full time Carer for my Mum.

Chewynut - This is why I would like to do a food hygiene cert. To learn about allergies and food intolerance's also. Since last year I have found out that I have gluten/wheat/lactose intolerance's and it has been a huge learning curve for me. So have been doing a lot of research and baking etc and find it very interesting.

Makeyourdaddy proud - Perhap's I may not end up working in a food etc environment but it's not always about money, yes money helps etc but I feel as long as you find a job that you are happy/passionate about then money does not come into it.

I just really enjoy baking etc as I find it excellent therapy for me when having black cloud day's and it occupies my mind by taking away the horrendous thoughts that I have and like you have all said something positive to add to my CV

browneyedbazzi

It's worth contacting the environmental health team at your local council to see if they run courses. I've worked for a few authorities who run the courses and they were the cheapest provider in the local area (at the last place I think the charge was only £20). They run the courses at cost in order to encourage local food premises to get all their staff trained and also because often it's a requirement for people who are applying for a street trading licence to sell food.