Barista

InterContinental Hotels Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 13,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading hotel group in Scotland is seeking a Barista to join their team at Kimpton Charlotte Square. This role involves creating high-quality coffee beverages and ensuring a remarkable guest experience. Candidates should have prior experience in a cafe or similar environment and a personable, service-oriented attitude. The position offers 20 hours per week at £12.71 per hour, with numerous employee benefits including complimentary hotel stays and discounts. Join a supportive team dedicated to genuine connections and exceptional service.

Benefits

Complimentary stay for you+1 after probation

Generous discounts across F&B outlets

Paid volunteering days

Financial wellbeing app

Enhanced family leave

Mental health support

Taxi subsidy for late shifts

Company sick pay

Life insurance

Discounts from various stores

Qualifications

• Experience working within a Restaurant, Bar, Cafe, or Hotel as a Barista.
• Knowledge of making various coffees and dietary preferences.
• Commitment to providing personal experiences.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality guest experience through coffee preparation.
• Interact with guests and assist the F&B team.
• Embrace the service culture to delight guests.

Skills

Experience as a Barista or Coffee Maker

Knowledge of coffee preparation

Warm and authentic personality

Commitment to service

Ability to work within a team

Job description

A fantastic opportunity for a Barista to join our team at Kimpton Charlotte Square on a 20-hour per week contract!

You will earn £12.71 per hour – equal to £13,218.40 salary, plus service charge.

Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel brings together traditional Edinburgh architecture with an exciting and fresh indoor feel, offering our guests a modern luxurious stay. Welcoming locals to relax in our Garden area (a must visit), experiencing mouth-watering food in BABA restaurant, or guests from far and wide being pampered in our state-of-the-art Spa – we cover it all!

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, plus Spa & Gym discounts at our Kimpton property.

Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice

Wagestream – a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.

Enhanced Family Leave (you can ask more details at the interview).

Mental Health First Aiders on Duty and access to Employee Assistance Programs.

Taxi subsidy for shifts starting/ending between 23:00-06:00.

We provide every employee company sick pay and life insurance.

Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world.

Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema.

Don’t forget, bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

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!

To succeed as a Barista, you will need:

• 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
• Drive to produce results, we work together within the Kimpton family to continue to provide our guests with extremely personal experiences and human connection.
• A warm and authentic personality, with a can‑do attitude and commitment to service.
• Overall, you will be willing to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests!

At Kimpton, our shared mission is to make lives better through heartfelt human connections. This emotional investment drives all that we do, and it’s why you’ll love the work, too.Our colleagues are empowered and encouraged to act from the heart, to go above and beyond to create ridiculously personal experiences for each other and our guests!

Our passion is YOU…come as you are!

Here, you will have space to:

Be yourself – bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!

Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!

Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today to join us as a Barista!

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

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the ‘Apply’ button. Start your journey with us today.