Food & Beverage Assistant

Gidleigh Park - Restaurant; Highweek; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site staff accommodation

Service charge shared

Staff discounts

Meals on duty

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Gidleigh Park in Devon is seeking a Food & Beverage Assistant to support both front and back of house teams, ensuring guests have a memorable visit. No experience is required; your passion, personality and willingness to learn will be developed through our training and team support.

You will join a luxury hotel and Michelin-starred restaurant environment, with staff benefits, service charge and opportunities to grow within the group. A collaborative, guest-first approach is valued.

Qualifications

• No prior experience required; attitude and personality matter.
• Willingness to learn and develop in hospitality roles.
• Ability to work as part of a close-knit team.

Responsibilities

• Assist front of house and back of house to ensure a memorable guest experience.
• Advise guests on menu options and services.
• Support flexible rotas and team coverage as needed.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Teamwork

Flexibility

Job description

Location :Set on the upper reaches of the River Teign, the 24-bedroom Gidleigh Park enjoys an exquisite location on the very edge of Dartmoor National Park in Devon. With 5 AA red stars, a stunning quality led 1 Michelin starred restaurant and a member of Relais & Châteaux, Gidleigh Park is widely recognised as one of the best hotels and restaurants in the UK, and can offer learning and development opportunities few others can.
The hotel may also be able to offer on-site staff accommodation, in order to help the newest members of the team re-locate and settle in, and has free on-site parking.
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 £395 a month (close to £4,750 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

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

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Food & Beverage Assistant you will work closely with both the front of house and back of house team, to ensure our guests not only have a wonderful time, but also make memories to last a lifetime.

We welcome applications from candidates with no experience, as this role is all about personality and attitude, we can teach you the rest.

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.
• 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 s 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 to be 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 stylish boutique townhouse in the heart of Chelsea – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

If you're the type of person that likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch

Compensation: Competitive salary