Barista

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

Job summary

InterContinental Hotels Group is seeking a Barista for their Edinburgh hotel. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality coffee experiences, interacting with guests, and supporting the F&B team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for luxury service and experience in a café or hotel setting. This position offers a competitive salary of £12.71 per hour and excellent employee benefits, including opportunities for growth within the company.

Benefits

Paid overtime

Subsidized travel support

Discounted room rates

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience working within a Restaurant, Bar, Cafe or Hotel.
• Knowledge of making various coffees and dietary needs.
• Passion for providing luxury experiences.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality guest experiences through coffee preparation.
• Interact with guests and assist F&B team.
• Work collaboratively with the team to focus on guest satisfaction.

Skills

Coffee Making

Customer Service

Teamwork

Attention to Detail

Job description

We are looking for a Barista to join the glamour of InterContinental Life at our InterContinental Edinburgh the George Hotel on a 24-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.