How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer City and Guilds of London Institute has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and City and Guilds of London Institute awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from City and Guilds of London Institute.

More on studying for a qualification

01What it is

Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen & Larder) aimed at individuals looking to further their learning to become professional chefs, focusing on advanced skills in kitchen & larder without covering pastry.

These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with City and Guilds of London Institute. It does the teaching and the mapping. City and Guilds of London Institute sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

Free first step

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen & Larder) Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
This unit covers the advanced skills and techniques required to produce high-quality dishes as a professional chef, particularly focusing on kitchen and larder skills.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate advanced skills in preparing and cooking complex dishes.
  • Understand the role and responsibilities of a Sous Chef.
Advanced fish and shellfish dishes Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Techniques for preparing fish and shellfish dishes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Choose and prepare various seafood.
Advanced meat dishes Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Advanced techniques and skills for preparing meat dishes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Select and prepare different types of meat.
Advanced poultry and game dishes Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Skills in preparing advanced poultry and game meals.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand game and poultry characteristics.
Advanced vegetable and vegetarian dishes Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Skills necessary to produce advanced vegetable and vegetarian dishes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create innovative vegetarian dishes.
Fermented dough and batter products Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Skills involved in making fermented dough and batter products.

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce various dough and batter products.
Food safety supervision for catering Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Covers the principles of food safety supervision relevant to catering environments.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand food safety legislation and guidelines.
Practical Gastronomy Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Practical skills involved in gastronomy and preparation of various meals.

What you'll be able to do

  • Execute advanced cooking techniques.
Supervisory skills in the hospitality industry Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Focuses on developing supervisory skills pertinent to the hospitality sector.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of a supervisor in a hospitality context.
  • Display leadership qualities in a hospitality environment.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Design and produce complex and innovative dishes in a professional kitchen

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen & Larder)Advanced fish and shellfish dishesAdvanced meat dishesAdvanced poultry and game dishesAdvanced vegetable and vegetarian dishesFermented dough and batter productsFood safety supervision for cateringPractical Gastronomy

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to tell the team what “Food safety supervision for catering” means for them next month. Say it to me now, the way you would say it to them.
You The new process goes live on the 3rd and full training will be provided.
The Coach That is the announcement. Now try the one that starts with the bit they are going to hate, and we will see which you would rather receive.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Lead it Apply

    “Food safety supervision for catering” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen & Larder), one of this qualification's own units.

Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen & Larder) Level 3

Applied to your own work

This unit covers the advanced skills and techniques required to produce high-quality dishes as a professional chef, particularly focusing on kitchen and larder skills.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma In Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen and Larder)

9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.

  1. Advanced Professional Cookery (Kitchen & Larder)
  2. Advanced fish and shellfish dishes
  3. Advanced meat dishes
  4. Advanced poultry and game dishes
  5. Advanced vegetable and vegetarian dishes
  6. Fermented dough and batter products

and 3 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.