Skills Academy 2025

Our next Skills Academy will take place at 8am until 3pm on Wednesday 26 February 2025, in Leeds. You can register your interest in attending via our enquiry form.

Following the success of the award-winning Chefs Academy, our Culinary and Dietetics team are excited to announce the official launch of Skills Academy.

We have limited spaces at each event and not everyone will be able to attend. We will get back in touch to let you know the outcome of your request. If you can’t attend this particular event, there may be future opportunities which we will discuss with you. 

Skills Academy is a brand-new training experience aimed at raising the profile of NHS general catering assistants, providing them with new skillsets for personal and professional development within the NHS.

You can stay up to date with future Skills Academy dates, or other products and services that we offer, by signing up to our monthly newsletter. 

See our Useful Links section for more information on our Chefs Academy and how to sign up for monthly customer newsletter.

Please get in touch with your local Food Account Manager to discuss, or contact: 

Skills Academy is designed to address the growing need for comprehensive training and resources for NHS colleagues. The Skills Academy focus on skills enhancement, helping to raise NHS general catering assistants’ confidence, allowing them to feel a sense of pride and professionalism. 

Idrees Anwar, Lead Dietitian, NHS Supply Chain: Food

I had such a positive return to work following attendance at both the Skills and Chef’s Academies.  There were a lot of positive and exciting conversations happening amongst our colleagues, with a lot of other colleagues eager to join the next events being held in our area.  I think it really brought home to them that they are the key to making positive change in a hospital setting, whether its patient feeding all the way through to the retail offering, where we are providing food for our visitors and staff.  We are going to using some of the concepts and skills to provide food for our patients in the gardens for one of our hospital charity events.

Dan Hoggett, Catering Manager, The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

We encourage you to read about our Culinary Concepts and try some exciting recipes.

Check out our Culinary Concepts here

View our sample recipe here

We encourage you to try our delicious rosemary roast potatoes recipe.