Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery

Face to Face/ Practical (20 hours/week)

Morning from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Afternoon from 3:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Monday to Friday

Note: Time table will be chosen during the Orientation. TKL college reserve the right to alter the class time table.

Upon acceptance of a student’s application for enrolment, a letter of offer, as well as a written agreement and tax invoice for the remaining fees, will be forwarded to students. Students must read through all the provided information as it will provide all the necessary information about the course of study.  A Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE) letter will be issued once the signed acceptance of the offer, written agreement and payments are received.

Orietation class will be held one week before the commencement of the course. The orientation class will include information about the campus, living in Australia, accessing our support services and methods for achieving success throughout the course, including course progress requirements.

Please contact our office via info@tkl.edu.au to discuss commencement dates, enrolment procedures, payment methods or any course-related matters.

For other costs and charges, please visit the Student Information Section and the International Student Handbook.

Students who completed this course may be able to seek employment in restaurants, hotels, clubs, pubs, cafes, and coffee shops or to run a small business in these sectors. Possible job titles may include:

• Chef
• Chef de partie

Students who completed this course may wish to further their studies and enrol in SIT50416 Diploma of Hospitality Management or a range of Diploma qualifications in Tourism, Travel, and Hospitality areas.

Students must also have their own laptop with Microsoft Office software e.g. Office 365 Personal that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Publisher.

For printing of completed assessments, students need to have their own USB. Please refer to the International Student Handbook for the specification and other technical requirements.

• The SIT40516 Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery qualification is completed in the classroom, a commercial kitchen, and work placement.

• Total supervised training hours is 1440 hours which consist of 430 hours for face to face training in the classroom; 180 hours training in the kitchen, 240 hours work placement, and 590 hours for assessment in the classroom and the kitchen.

• Unsupervised training hours expected to be an average of 2 hours a week that includes research for assessments and general Reading.

• Students are required to attend Minimum 20 hours (i.e. two and a half days) of classroom training per week (at the Parramatta campus) during term 1 and 2 (Block 1 to 4).

• In block 5 of Term 3, students will complete the unit SITFSA001 Use hygienic practices for food safety. Training and Assessment will also be completed in the commercial kitchen in Banksia/Girraween . In term 3 to 5 approximately 50% of the contact hours will be deliver in face–to-face training in the classroom at Parramatta and the other 50% in the  commercial kitchen in Banksia/Girraween.

• In term 6, students will complete two units (SITHKOP005 Coordinate cooking operations and SITHCCC020 Work effectively as a cook) that requires 240 Hours of work placement to cover 48 Service periods for SITHCCC020 and 12 Service Periods for SITHKOP005.

This qualification reflects the role of commercial cooks who have a supervisory or team leading role in the kitchen. They operate independently or with limited guidance from others and use discretion to solve non-routine problems.

The SIT40516 Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery qualification has 33 units in total comprising of 26 core and 7 elective units from the Hospitality, Health and Business Services Training Packages.
Units included in this qualification are outlined on the right.

Students may apply for recognition of existing qualifications or skills, knowledge and experience (credit transfer or recognition of prior learning) as per the information included in our International Student Handbook, which is available at www.tkl.edu.au.

For international students, the granting of course credit may affect course fees as well as the duration of the course.
The result of an application for credit and any changes to fees or course duration will be advised to students in writing.

If course credit is granted following the issuance of the Confirmation of Enrolment, students will receive a new Confirmation of Enrolment showing a reduced duration and course fee. For any questions about course credit, contact us via
info@tkl.edu.au.

International students are also required to have Overseas Student Health Cover before arriving in Australia. TKL College provides details of OSHC providers in the International Student Handbook

Students can access TKL’s Complaints and Appeals policy in the Student Handbook, telephone 02 8677 3602 or email info@tkl.edu.au

All students will be provided with a range of learning support options and resources to help them achieve competency. This includes:
• Academic and personal support.
• Referral to external support services.

We strictly abide by all Australian state and federal requirements relating to your privacy and confidentiality including the VET Quality Framework, the Privacy Act 1988, and Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000.