Bartender - Fixed Term

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

Job summary

A luxury hotel chain in Edinburgh seeks a Bartender to create unique cocktails and ensure a high-quality guest experience. The role offers competitive pay of £12.83 per hour alongside many benefits, including guaranteed hours and training opportunities. Ideal candidates will have experience in high-end settings and a passion for guest service.

Benefits

Financial security

Growth and development

Colleague perks

Wellbeing benefits

Hotel specific benefits

Qualifications

• Experience working within a high-end restaurant, bar, or hotel as a bartender or mixologist.
• Knowledge of wines, beers, spirits, and cocktails.
• Passion for providing excellent guest service.

Responsibilities

• Create unique and exciting cocktails.
• Interact with guests to enhance their experience.
• Assist F&B team with timely service.

Skills

Creativity

Knowledge of Wines

Knowledge of Beers

Knowledge of Spirits

Guest Service

Job description

Overview

At Scotland’s first and only Le Petit Beefbar Restaurant, we are looking for a Bartender to join us on a Full-Time contract. This is a Fixed-Term assignment ending on the 31st of December 2025.

This highly exclusive restaurant born in Monte Carlo in 2005 is the epitome of creativity and luxury service, by taking on international and local dishes with a focus on quality ingredients. InterContinental Edinburgh The George is home to the first and only Beefbar in Scotland and we are proud to be making a mark on Edinburgh’s food and drink scene.

Responsibilities

As a Bartender, your main duties and responsibilities will be ensuring high quality guest experience through the creation of unique and exciting cocktails, interacting with our guests to share your knowledge of various Beers, Wines and Spirits. You will also be assisting the wider F&B team to provide timely service!

Requirements / Qualifications

• Experience working within a High-end Restaurant, Bar or Hotel as a Bartender or Mixologist
• Knowledge of Wines, Beers, Spirits and Cocktails – excited by being creative and sharing your skills with others
• Passion for providing an excellent guest service, you will be someone who enjoys interacting with guests to ensure they are getting a uniquely personal experience
• A personal license (highly beneficial)
• 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 joining

• Financial security - £12.83 per hour (£26,686.40 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 skills and knowledge to providing exceptional customer experiences, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @lepetitbeefbar_edinburgh 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.