Certificate
Pre-requisite: SIT31021 Certificate III in Patisserie
This specialised course is designed to provide students with a broad range of pastry skills and knowledge. Students will develop a range of preparation and presentation skills synonymous with the fine tuned skills required of a fully qualified patissier or pastry chef.
This is a six-month course that aims at refining a patissier to an advanced level of cake and dessert finishing, chocolate and sugar sculpting, design creative recipes and menu. This course covers how to design decorative showpieces by using advanced sugar and chocolate work, confiserie and petit fours.
The Certificate IV in Patisserie is an advanced skills course, providing students with kitchen supervision skills and advanced cookery skills. Subjects taught at this level include staff supervision skills, stock control processes, financial management and advanced catering control. Students are required to undertake face to face theory and practical training in kitchen operations.
Students are required to undertake workplace training in various commercial kitchen settings, such as in restaurants, hotels, clubs, pubs, cafes, cafeterias and coffee shops.
This qualification provides a pathway to work in various kitchen settings, such as restaurants, hotel, clubs, pubs, cafes, cafeterias and coffee shops. Possible job titles include:
RPL is available to anyone who has experience working in a commercial kitchen.
RPL:
APSI has developed a process that promotes holistic and task-based assessment. It focuses on relating assessment activities to actual job tasks. The intention of this model is to streamline and simplify the process of recognising competency.
Prior to RPL, information is provided to the candidate on the assessment process. Specific advice is given to each candidate on how they can demonstrate their competence and what documentary evidence is required to support their application. Each industry has unique documents that can provide evidence of experience and competence.
The candidate is required to provide adequate information prior to, throughout and after a training and assessment experience. The assessor, in this process, needs to be fully aware of the needs of the candidate and help them identify relevant workplace personnel who can confirm the candidate's competency.
The focus of the APSI streamlined holistic assessment process is to focus on demonstrated skills and knowledge and not to rely purely on documentary evidence as the main source of evidence.
Some examples of documentary evidence that can support the process include: