Kim is currently working through a Level 2 Meat & Processing Food Apprenticeship with training provider, Campus Training. Kim has been achieving awards in Emergency First Aid at Work and Key Skills in Communications. Kim has been very fortunate to have been offered a full time job as well as training immediately after leaving secondary school.

 

I found out about Apprenticeships from my Employer, Sarah Wareham and I was very keen to begin learning a stable trade and learn new skills.

 

At work I am in Tottingworth’s Farm Shop near Heathfield, serving customers, ordering and maintaining stock, doing basic butchery skills such as mincing, dicing and boning out legs of lamb.

 

Training is mostly on the job. I have only had to leave the farm to get my Emergency First Aid certificate from Plumpton College.

 

I feel an Apprenticeship was right for me because I felt as though full time education had lost my interest and I needed to experience working life and learn as many new skills as I could in a practical working environment.

 

In the future I would like to be in management, to be able to control the working environment and develop a local business. I would like to learn and develop further skills in other fields as well as build up my experience.