Assistant F&B Manager

Minster Mill; Minster Lovell; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Perkbox

Staff discounts

Staff rate

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Development pathways

Internal promotions

Milestone awards

Job summary

Old Swan & Minster Mill, located in the picturesque village of Minster Lovell just 15 miles from Oxford, is seeking an Assistant Food & Beverage Manager. You will lead our restaurant team and work with our Food & Beverage Manager to ensure we consistently provide exceptional service and memorable experiences for guests.

You will train and develop staff, help manage rostering to balance work/life, and participate in a supportive, team‑oriented environment with opportunities to grow within the

Qualifications

• Experience in hospitality management.
• Excellent customer service.
• Ability to train staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead the restaurant team to deliver exceptional service to guests.
• Train and develop new staff to maintain high standards.
• Ensure guests have a memorable experience and smooth service flow.
• Collaborate with other departments to maintain a seamless operation.

Skills

People management

Customer service

Food & beverage knowledge

Staff training

Job description

Location: Located just 15 miles from Oxford, Old Swan & Minster Mill is in the picturesque village of Minster Lovell.

Consisting of both a quintessentially country English Inn, and a modern riverside hotel,

SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.

Service charge can be in the region of £150 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

The Old Swan & Minster Mill offers a relaxed, fun yet professional environment to work in. Free parking is available on site, and we do offer discounted staff taxis for those that don't drive!

Come and join our team as an Assistant Food & Beverage Manager and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams toshow thoughtfulnesstowards each other and our guests.

As anAssistant Food & Beverage Manager, you will be working with our Food & Beverage Manager to lead our restaurant team and ensure we always providing exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories that last a lifetime.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• We serve a lot of yummy dishes, so we ask that you get to know the menu, that way you can advise our guests, if they ask for help.
• Have the pleasure of training our new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.
• You spend a lot of your life at work, meaning often your colleagues’ become friends, and we encourage that. We want our employees to build close relationships across all teams.
• Ensuring all our guests have a memorable experience.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we have many perks:

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams tobe curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality.

Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter.

We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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