For Bar Manager Degree Employers

Push your business to change, grow and expand with a Bar Manager Degree Apprentice.

"The Irish bar trade is synonymous across the world with great service and superb personal engagement. This is all thanks to the people in the sector. It is a people-rich and people-dependent business.

This programme is designed to assist those engaged in the sector to improve their professional skills and qualifications and, as a result, enhance their career progression. In doing that it will help to further increase the standards within the sector, the quality of service to the consumer and the reputation of the country as a truly world-class tourist destination.

Hospitality and Food Apprenticeships

The VFI fully supports this programme as a means to providing an increased pool of well-trained, suitably qualified managers and thereby facilitate the growth of individual business and the sector as a whole."

- Pat Crotty, Chief Executive Vintners’ Federation of Ireland

Generation Apprenticeship announces welcome increase in the Employer Grant scheme.

Objectives of the course 

This programme equips apprentices with the essential skills and knowledge to thrive in the bar industry by focusing on:

  • Leadership & Team Management: Develop strong leadership, HR, and people management skills to lead teams and foster a positive work environment.

  • Legal & Regulatory Understanding: Gain a thorough knowledge of laws and regulations relevant to bar operations.

  • Operational Excellence: Manage food, beverage, and customer service to ensure safety, quality, and exceptional experiences.

  • Financial & Commercial Skills: Apply financial principles, commercial acumen, and procurement practices for efficient and profitable operations.

  • Marketing & Business Growth: Use marketing, including digital techniques, to attract customers and drive business development.

  • Lean & Efficient Practices: Implement lean strategies to boost efficiency and create value for employers, employees, and customers.

  • Effective Communication: Strengthen communication skills to engage successfully with customers, staff, and suppliers.

 

Who is the course for?

Applicants must have a minimum of one year full-time or two years part-time experience working in the bar industry.

Employees identified by their employer as someone with the potential to become a senior manager and whom they wish to retain and develop.

Candidates who have successfully completed a NFQ level 5 or level 6 in hospitality or business and are seeking a pathway to advance their career.

Individuals who have worked in the bar industry and are looking for a long-term career in management may find this opportunity appealing. This is particularly relevant for those who have just finished school.

 

Benefits of the programme to the bar owner

  • The development of creative and proactive managers and leaders.
  • Improved business performance.
  • Retaining talented employees.
  • Employee motivation and enhanced employee engagement.
  • Strengthen the organisation's culture of learning.
  • Increased knowledge sharing.
  • Recruitment advantage by showing support for staff development.
  • €2000 employer grant per apprentice, per year, €6000 in total.

 

Duration 

  • 3 Years
  • 30 days per year
  • 2 x 15-week semesters each year

 

Course content 

Year 1 

  • Personal and Academic Development
  • Effective Business Communication
  • Food Management
  • Health & Safety Operations
  • Fundamentals of Finance, Beverage Management, Bar Operations – Stock Management
  • Food Safety Fundamentals

 

Year 2 

  • Bar Regulations
  • Sustainable Operations
  • Marketing Management
  • Managing People
  • Contemporary Issues for the Bar Industry
  • Operational and Financial Management
  • Business Proposal Project
  • Event Management

 

Year 3

  • Management of Food Safety
  • Effective Procurement
  • Social Media Management
  • Lean Business Strategies
  • Talent Development
  • Strategic Management
  • Professional Perspectives on Emerging Trends
  • Business Development Project 

 

Employer Commitment 

  • Identify potential and committed staff for development.
  • Appoint a workplace mentor to facilitate the apprentice over the 3 years.
  • Release the workplace mentor for two days of training prior to the programme starting.
  • Pay the apprentice while they are attending the classroom sessions.
  • Work with Generation Apprenticeship and Griffith College to deliver the programme.

 

Learn more

To find out more about apprenticeships in Ireland visit Generation Apprenticeship.

The employer will need to:

  • Be willing to employ their apprentice for at least the three years duration of the apprenticeship
  • Appoint a suitably qualified workplace mentor to support the apprentice over the duration of the apprenticeship
  • Release the mentor for a short period of training at the commencement of the programme each year
  • Carry out an annual appraisal of the workplace mentor’s mentorship skills
  • Register with SOLAS Generation Apprenticeship to become an approved employer
  • Work collaboratively and effectively with Griffith College the academic provider to deliver the programme
  • Provide the apprentices with the opportunity to practice all the learning outcomes of the programme
  • Release the apprentice from the workplace for the classroom sessions out of their working week
  • Commit to and sign the Apprenticeship Code of Practice for Employers and Apprentices

A pro rata third level student fee for the programme will apply per annum

All other tuition fees are funded by the government.

You will need to register your interest for the programme on the Griffith College website.

 

The advantages are:

  • Key employee retention for the duration of the programme
  • Increased loyalty and motivation for apprentices to stay based on your investment in their training
  • Introduction of new knowledge, skills and competencies to your workplace with a movement towards becoming a learning organisation
  • Apprentices can bring fresh perspectives and dynamics to a team and share their new learning with colleagues
  • Improved productivity
  • Enhanced quality of customer service
  • Marketing advantage in being able to show you are actively supporting staff training
  • Increased motivation in the staff team

You can find further information on apprenticeships by visiting Apprenticeship.ie

Once you are an approved employer for the delivery of the programme you are encouraged to advertise for apprentices using the Generation Apprenticeship Jobs Portal.

Questions? Email our Apprenticeships team or call the college at +353 1 415 0400