Restaurant Services: Foundation Skills Competition

Overview

The Restaurant Services competition focuses on the essential skills needed within the hospitality industry. The Foundation Skills competitions have been created to showcase the skills of students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), additional learning needs (ALN), or who require additional support for learning (ASL), who are currently undertaking a course with an FE or training provider at Entry level or level 1.

These competitions provide excellent opportunities for students and learners to develop their vocational skills, employability and wider skills for work, personal, social and independence skills.

Important Information: Skill Specific Rules

The skills you need to demonstrate

Health and Safety
Professionalism
Communication skills
Organisation skills
Commercial awareness
Flexibility
Problem solving
Team working

Useful resources

Contact details

Pami.johal@nwslc.ac.uk

Entry criteria

This is an individual competition.
There is no limit to the number of competitors permitted to enter this competition per organisation.
The competition is for learners working towards and Entry Level 3/Level 1 during year of registration.
Competitors must be 16 years of age or over.

How it works

1. Register

Registrations open 09:00am Monday 3rd of April and will close midnight Friday 28th of March.

2. Entry Stage

Entry Stage will be released Monday 9th of March with a final deadline of 30th April.

3. National Qualifiers

Qualifiers will take place Tuesday 10th & Wednesday 11th of June at North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College – Nuneaton Campus.

4. Training and Development

To help finalists prepare ahead of the UK Final, we will provide relevant technical training and share mindset development techniques, to support them to remain focused on achieving success.

5. National Finals

The National Finals are scheduled to take place in Wales during the week beginning 24th November 2025.