Barista

InterContinental Hotels Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 27,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a prestigious hotel as a Barista and elevate guest experiences through your expertise in coffee-making. The position offers a 32-hour work week with competitive pay, comprehensive training, and opportunities for growth within a global hospitality leader. Embrace luxury service and showcase your passion for excellence in a vibrant team environment.

Benefits

Paid Overtime

Paid Holidays

Subsidized Travel for Unsocial Hours

Discounted Room Rates

Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

• Experience working as Barista in a café, restaurant or hotel.
• Knowledge of making various coffees.
• Ability to personalize guest experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality guest experience through coffee making.
• Interact with guests and assist the wider F&B team.
• Work collaboratively to ensure guest satisfaction.

Skills

Customer Service

Coffee Knowledge

Team Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Luxury Experience Provision

Job description

Hotel: Edinburgh The George (EDIGS), 19 - 21 George Street, EH2 2PB

We are looking for a Barista to join the glamour of InterContinental Life at our InterContinental Edinburgh the George Hotel…on a 32-hour per week contract!

InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel is full of culture and has been serving guests since 1881, so we know what it takes to provide an alluring guest experience and a personal and attentive service. We provide an exciting mix of a luxury InterContinental experience combined with our unique character and charming building, home to Scotland’s first Le Petit Beefbar Restaurant.

As the largest luxury hotel brand in the world, we provide our guests with a brilliantly cosmopolitan stay of discreet luxury and culinary expertise. As a Barista, your main duties and responsibilities will be ensuring high quality guest experience through the making of a wide range of Coffees and hot drinks, interacting with our guests and assisting the wider F&B team to provide timely service!

Joining us as a Barista, we are looking for someone who has…

• Experience working within a Restaurant, Bar, Cafe or Hotel as a Barista or Coffee Maker
• Knowledge of making various coffees and working with different dietary requirements and preferences
• Passion for providing luxury experiences, not shy to go above and beyond to personalise our Guests stay and provide your local wisdom to enhance their experience
• Ability to work together in the team with guests as our centre focus!

In return for bringing the InterContinental life to our guests, you can expect to receive…

• Financial security - £12.71 per hour (£26,436.80 per annum FTE), guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support and enhanced sick pay! Plus, Tronc paid monthly if in eligible role. Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Growth and development – extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
• Colleague perks- worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F&B whilst on employee rate (IHG has over 6,000 hotels globally and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perks portal.
• Wellbeing– generous maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders
• Hotel specific benefits– complimentary stay for you+1 in our Hotel upon successful completion of probation, generous discounts across our F&B outlets at Kimpton Charlotte Square and InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel plus Spa and gym discounts at our Kimpton property

If you are someone who likes to bring your wisdom and local-know-how to a provide a truly personal and luxurious experience for our guests, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @InterContinentalEdinburghGeorge to see more.

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Who we are

As the world’s first and most global luxury hotel brand, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has pioneered international travel since the 1940s, we are passionate about sharing our renowned international know-how and cultural wisdom in truly impressive surroundings. We all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental️ brand and to be part of the brand you will have a thirst for travel, passion for culture and appreciation for diversity. We create inspiring experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world. If you’d like to embrace a world of opportunities, we’d like to welcome you to the world’s most international luxury hotel brand.

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