Hotel Receptionist

Slaughters Manor; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Service charge shared

Perkbox platform perks

Staff discounts 25% food & beverage

Staff rate £25 B&B across group

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Internal promotion opportunities

Job summary

The Slaughters Manor House in the Cotswolds is seeking a Receptionist to welcome guests, manage check-in and check-out, assist with table bookings and local recommendations, and ensure our guests have memorable experiences.

You will be part of a close-knit team across departments, with flexible rotas and strong guest focus. Competitive pay plus a service charge and a range of hotel perks await you.

Responsibilities

• Hosting guests from check-in to check-out and assisting with tables or local tips
• Building relationships across teams to ensure smooth operation
• Ensuring guests have a memorable experience and high level of service
• Flexible with rotas and supportive of colleagues across departments

Job description

Location

Situated in one of England's prettiest villages, The Slaughters Manor House is a beautiful 17th Century manor house, giving attentive service and with one of the most acclaimed restaurants in the Cotswolds. With 4 AA red stars, and 3 AA rosettes, The Slaughters Manor House will give you the opportunity to work within a quality hotel in a picturesque location.

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 £250 a month (close to £3,000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a Receptionist and let your passion and personality shine

Our cultureis really important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to showthoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

This role would suit someone with experience working in a similar role.

Being host to our guests, means you’ll pay a large partin making sure they make memories to last a lifetime.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• Hosting our guests from check-in to check-out, which could include booking tables, advising on local hot spots, or just having a chat.
• 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.

Tosay thank you, we have many perks

• Competitivepay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive arate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips ontop.
• Treatyourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks throughour Perkbox platform.
• Excellentdiscounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% offfood & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of£25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family getspecial rates too.
• Weunderstand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally runconfidential helpline for any support you require about anything you mightneed as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Wesustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To bethe best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to usand are the best in the business.
• Weprovide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have madehundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• Welike to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - ourmilestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you andsomeone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extraspecial gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a uniquegift especially chosen for you.

About ourfamily of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with openarms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of ourhotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality isfundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. Webelieve everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies toour team and our guests.

We havevery unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning GidleighPark in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre AbodeManchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadillytrain station – to see the whole group, take a lookherewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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