Enhance your cookery skills and gain an understating of kitchen, operations, people and finance management for hospitality businesses with the Certificate IV in Kitchen Management SIT40521 at Victoria University.

This kitchen-management qualification reflects the role of chefs and cooks who supervise or lead teams. During your study, you'll develop the ability to work independently in a commercial kitchen setting, and learn to solve non-routine problems.

Through a blend of online learning and practical skills development, you will become a competent chef and come to understand management concepts.

You will develop expertise in the following areas:

• quality control
• stock control
• menu planning and costing
• finance
• human resources
• leadership
• people and operations management
• sustainable work practices
• food hygiene, food safety, OHS and first aid
• food preparation and presentation.

You'll finish the course prepared to take a role in restaurants, hotels, clubs, pubs, cafes and coffee shops, or to run a small business in these sectors.

To be awarded SIT40521 Certificate IV in Kitchen Management qualification, a total of thirty-three (33) units of competency must be achieved, comprising:

* twenty-seven (27) core units; * six (6) elective units, of which;

• 3 (three) units must be from Group A
• 3 (three) units may be selected from within the SIT40521 Certificate IV in Kitchen Management qualification, elsewhere in the SIT Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Training Package, or another other current training package or accredited course.

The selection of electives must be guided by the job outcome sought, local industry requirements and the complexity of skills appropriate to the AQF level of this qualification as well as be approved by the VU.

Graduates of this course are able to work as chef or chef de partie preparing a variety of dishes in a range of hospitality businesses such as:

• restaurants
• hotels
• clubs
• pubs
• cafes
• coffee shops.

You may choose to run a small business in these sectors.

There are no formal entry requirements for this course.As part of the application process, applicants must complete a Pre-training Review (PTR) and undertake a literacy and numeracy (LN) asse

IELTS (Academic module): Overall score of 5.5 (no band less than 5.0)

TOEFL Internet: Overall score of 55 (Listening 9, Speaking 16, Reading 10, Writing 18)

Pearson Test of English (PTE): Overall score of 42 (no section score less than 40)

University of Cambridge - Advanced (CAE): Overall score of 162. No individual band less than 154.

VU English - English for Academic Purposes (EAP) (Level 4): achieved.