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SIT40721 Certificate IV in Patisserie

  • Certificate

Develop advanced patisserie skills to create pastries, cakes, and desserts, and prepare for a supervisory role in a commercial kitchen. Learn financial management, team leadership, and food safety practices while gaining hands-on experience with professional baking equipment.

Key details

Degree Type
Certificate
Duration
6 - 18 semesters full-time
Course Code
BHT2, 109485B
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
International Fees
$8,445 per year / $25,335 total

About this course

Why choose this course?

Fine tune your creative skills in making sweet masterpieces, delicious pastries and cakes with this qualification. This course further builds your skills so that you can take on a leading supervisory role in the kitchen and work quickly and effectively in a commercial kitchen team to plan, prepare and bake cakes, sponges, tarts, pastries, chocolate and sugar pieces. Learn about financial management, staffing and teams, cleaning, food safety programs, hygiene, managing workplace conflict, and workplace health and safety.

Through this course you will develop your creativity, flair and excellent eye for detail, enabling you to create centrepieces with sugar, pastillage and chocolate using the latest baking equipment and machinery. You will graduate with the skills to work as a patissier or pastry chef in a patisserie, restaurant, or hotel.

Please note that students who are transitioning into the new qualification will be required to complete additional units in order to be awarded the new qualification. These extra units will not incur any additional tuition fees.

Entry requirements

  • An IELTS score (academic) of 6.0 with no band score less than 5.0 or equivalent.
  • Completion of SIT31021 Certificate III in Patisserie is required for entry into this course at North Metropolitan TAFE, Joondalup Campus.
  • Students will require the equivalent to Australian Year 10 only for entry into this course at South Metropolitan TAFE, Bentley Campus.

Study locations

Bentley

Joondalup

What you will learn

Why choose this course?

Fine tune your creative skills in making sweet masterpieces, delicious pastries and cakes with this qualification. This course further builds your skills so that you can take on a leading supervisory role in the kitchen and work quickly and effectively in a commercial kitchen team to plan, prepare and bake cakes, sponges, tarts, pastries, chocolate and sugar pieces. Learn about financial management, staffing and teams, cleaning, food safety programs, hygiene, managing workplace conflict, and workplace health and safety.

Through this course you will develop your creativity, flair and excellent eye for detail, enabling you to create centrepieces with sugar, pastillage and chocolate using the latest baking equipment and machinery. You will graduate with the skills to work as a patissier or pastry chef in a patisserie, restaurant, or hotel.

Career pathways

  • Baker
  • Pastry Cook

Course structure

Core units
  • BSBTWK501 Lead diversity and inclusion
  • SITHCCC023 Use food preparation equipment
  • SITHCCC027 Prepare dishes using basic methods of cookery
  • SITHCCC034 Work effectively in a commercial kitchen
  • SITHCCC042 Prepare food to meet special dietary requirements
  • SITHKOP013 Plan cooking operations
  • SITHPAT011 Produce cakes
  • SITHPAT012 Produce specialised cakes
  • SITHPAT013 Produce pastries
  • SITHPAT014 Produce yeast-based bakery products
  • SITHPAT015 Produce petits fours
  • SITHPAT016 Produce desserts
  • SITHPAT017 Prepare and model marzipan
  • SITHPAT018 Produce chocolate confectionery
  • SITHPAT019 Model sugar-based decorations
  • SITHPAT020 Design and produce sweet showpieces
  • SITXCOM010 Manage conflict
  • SITXFIN009 Manage finances within a budget
  • SITXFSA005 Use hygienic practices for food safety
  • SITXFSA006 Participate in safe food handling practices
  • SITXHRM007 Coach others in job skills
  • SITXHRM008 Roster staff
  • SITXHRM009 Lead and manage people
  • SITXINV006 Receive, store and maintain stock
  • SITXMGT004 Monitor work operations
  • SITXWHS007 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices
Elective units
  • SITHFAB025 Prepare and serve espresso coffee
  • SITHKOP010 Plan and cost recipes

Credit for prior study or work

Students who enrol into this qualification will be eligible for credit transfer of the units that they have already achieved. Fees paid by international students are set on a commercial basis and are paid as a whole of course fee - no refund will apply to credit transfers. Please refer to your letter of Offer for detailed duration and costings for your enrolment.

How to apply

How to apply

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  3. submit an application;
  4. accept your offer and pay;
  5. apply for your student visa; and
  6. receive your visa and come to Australia for your studies.

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