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Vocational & T Level

Hospitality Services City & Guilds NVQ Diploma Level 2

Subject Area
Hospitality
Start Date
September 2026
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 year
Level
Level 2

This qualification is aimed at students who want to work in a wide range of hospitality and catering businesses covering a range of duties in their role which may combine food preparation and food service.

The course will provide the knowledge and practical skills to work within the hospitality sector front facing roles (Bar Person, Food Service, Team Member) or professional cookery roles. It covers essential skills that will enable you to gain confidence in delivering a high level of service and product to all customers in a range of environments.

Entry requirements

4 GCSE subjects at grade 3 or above with English or Maths at grade 4 or above.

What will I study?

Units include:

  • Customer Service in Hospitality
  • Food Safety in Catering
  • Health and Safety in Catering and Hospitality
  • Team Working in Hospitality

Practical units include:

  • Food and Beverage Service Skills
  • Professional Cookery Skills - meat, fish, poultry, pasta, vegetarian
  • Pâtisserie & Confectionery - pastry, desserts, dough, cakes
  • Handling Payments and Maintaining Payment Points


Additional costs
All courses within Hospitality have uniform requirements for the kitchen and front of house areas. Information regarding uniform will be provided at enrolment. 

Method of delivery

Attendance is full-time. Your studies will be across three to four full days per week in College. These will be mainly workshop (kitchen or restaurant) based but you will also experience formal classroom learning.

Part of your development will involve working within our commercial restaurant and interacting with both internal and external customers. Your attendance in College may involve evening sessions within the commercial restaurant environment.

All of your sessions will be College based with 20% in the classroom and 80% undertaking practical activities in our RWE (realistic working environment). Our methods of delivery will include student focused learning and formal teaching sessions, accompanied by workshops, tutorials, some independent studies, problem solving and work-based learning.

How will I be assessed?

Competence based assessment through a portfolio of evidence and underpinning knowledge questions. Practical assessment will be ongoing in our industrial kitchens and commercial restaurant.

Good course combinations

This is a full-time course. It is not possible to combine this course with other Vocational, T Level, Apprenticeship or A Level programmes.

Your next steps

You could progress on to Level 3 Professional Cookery; Level 3 Advanced Professional Cookery or Pâtisserie & Confectionery; or Hospitality Supervision and Leadership courses, depending on progress and achievement at Level 2. Potential job occupations include Catering/Restaurant Member, Contract Chef/Cook, Bartender, Food and Beverage Attendant and Receptionist.

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