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Hospitality Skills - NCEA Level 2

Our Hospitality Skills course is designed to give you the practical skills and experience to work in cafes and restaurants across the hospitality industry.

If you are 15 years to 19 years of age, left or leaving school, then we can help you get your NZQA qualifications for free.

We offer this course for youth from our sites at Tauranga (CBD), Whakatane and Rotorua.

Hospitality Skills

Learn about:

  • Preparing expresso beverages
  • Hygiene practices & food safety
  • Food & beverage knowledge and service skills
  • Communication and employability skills
  • Customer service skills
  • Work experience – Cafes, Catering Events or Hospitality businesses

Enrol in our Hospitality Programme to:

  • Complete NCEA Level 2 Vocational Pathway – Service Industries
  • Learn food handling & food safety
  • Learn the Barista skills needed to make a great coffee
  • Get practical experience with on the job placements
  • Learn how to be a customer service star
  • Learn what skills, behaviours and attitudes employers need in th industry
  • Get a job or progress to the NZ Certificate in Food & Beverage Service (Level 3)

Course Details:

  • You can start every Monday or as agreed.
  • 8:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday
  • 20 – 26 weeks duration
  • Graduates will receive the “NCEA Level 2, Vocational Pathway – Service Sector (Hospitality)”. All of your 60 credits will also go towards your NCEA Level 2.

Entry Prerequisites:

  • There are no academic entry prerequisites. Funding eligibility and suitability applies.

For more information please use our Enquiry Form.

Course Locations

This course is a full time, face to face course delivered from these EmployNZ sites:

  • 94 Second Avenue – Tauranga
  • 1130 Pukaki Street, Rotorua
  • 40 King Street, Whakatane

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Who is this course for?

To be eligible for funding you need to be aged 15 (with an early leaving exemption, or ELX) or between 16 – 24 at the time of commencing study, and must not have completed higher level qualifications. Priority is given to learners who are new to tertiary study, and to existing students wishing to progress onto a higher level course.

Once eligibility has been established, students are selected by interview. Selection is based on a number of things including age, how suitable the course is for the student’s goals, attitude to learning, ability to function in an adult environment and fit in with existing groups, as well as committing to attending, course achievement and a pathway to employment or further education.