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Verdant Leisure Limited; Stanhope; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced annual leave entitlement

Park breaks discounts

Park facilities discounts

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Recognition and rewards

Training & development opportunities

Job summary

Verdant Parks is seeking an Assistant Bar & Restaurant Manager at Heather View Holiday Park, Stanhope, Durham. You will be the go-to support for the Bar & Restaurant Manager, leading a hands-on team, maintaining high service standards and ensuring smooth food and drink operations on site.

With a 45-hour week, a £30,000 annual salary and permanent contract, you’ll inspire guests and drive sales while upholding health, safety and licensing compliance within a fast-paced hospitality environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a bar and restaurant.
• Proven ability to lead, train and develop a front-of-house team.
• Strong focus on customer service and guest satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Assist in recruiting and training the bar and waiting teams.
• Oversee front of house operations when the Bar & Restaurant Manager is absent.
• Ensure customer satisfaction through regular spot checks and service standards.
• Maintain knowledge of our product range and allergen information.
• Organise staff rota to ensure adequate coverage at all times.
• Assist with stock management and waste reduction, GP targets.
• Ensure Health & Safety compliance and licensing law adherence.
• Support promotional activities via social media and marketing teams.

Skills

Staff supervision

Team leadership

Customer service

Stock management

Health & safety

Tools

Front-of-house systems

Job description

Assistant Bar & Restaurant Manager (Holiday Park)– Grow your Career with Verdant Parks

At Verdant Parks, we know that a fantastic holiday experience starts with getting the basics right — and that includes delivering exceptional service in our bars and restaurants. That’s why we’re looking for an Assistant Bar and Restaurant Manager who takes pride in the fundamentals: attention to detail, consistency, and leading by example.

In this role, you’ll support the management of daily operations, helping to ensure our food and drink service runs smoothly, efficiently, and to the highest standard. From supervising staff and maintaining excellent customer service, to assisting with stock management and operational planning, you’ll play a key behind-the-scenes role in creating memorable experiences for our guests.

If you’re ready to join a refreshed, modern, and fast-paced environment where your effort truly makes a difference, this could be the perfect next step for you.

Salary: £30,000 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 45 hours per week

Location: Heather View Holiday Park, Stanhope, Durham, DL13 2PS

You’ll be the go-to support for our Bar & Restaurant Manager, helping keep our food and drink service running smoothly and efficiently. You’ll lead by example, inspiring the team with a hands-on, friendly approach, and making sure every guest leaves with a smile.

If you’re passionate about great hospitality, motivating a team, and creating memorable holiday experiences, this is the role for you.

Typical duties and responsibilities include:

• Assisting in recruiting and training the bar and waiting on teams.
• Oversee the front of house operations when the Bar & Restaurant Manager is absent.
• Ensure customer satisfaction is maintained – complete spot checks with customers.
• Being knowledgeable about our product range.
• Help the Bar & Restaurant Manager organise the staff rota ensuring that we are adequately resourced at all times.
• Assist with ongoing stock management, minimising waste, maintaining GP’s etc
• Careful management and implementation of all Health & Safety and legislative requirements.
• Ensure that the bar is well stocked at all times.
• Assist in the promotion of the venue via our Social Media channels and marketing team
• Ensure that our Health & Safety obligations are adhered to at all times.

About the Person:

You should be passionate about hospitality, enjoy exceeding customer expectations, and have a hands-on attitude. You will need to have previous experience of managing a bar and restaurant and be able to demonstrate effective measures for reducing waste and increasing sales. You will also need to have previous experience with managing and developing a staff team and be able to demonstrate effective ways of motivating the team to achieve excellence.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a Supervisory or Assistant Manager role, be confident in leading and running shifts while engaging with guests, skilled at multitasking across the venue, training and coaching a large Front of House team, recruiting and developing staff, delivering excellent service including menu and allergen knowledge, resolving customer complaints quickly and cost-effectively, demonstrating a strong commitment to exceptional customer service, and possess good knowledge of licensing laws (a personal license is desirable), along with excellent communication skills.

A wonderful place to work:

When you join Team Verdant you will be working in a fun and collaborative environment. You can also take advantage of some fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced annual leave entitlement for length of service;
• Discounts on park breaks for you, your friends and your family;
• Discounts on park facilities, including restaurant and leisure;
• An annual 'Verdant Experience' – a park break, but with no charge!;
• Opportunities for recognition and reward;
• Training & development opportunities

About the Company:

Verdant Parks own and operate holiday parks in some of the UK’s most picturesque spots across Scotland and England. Each of our parks are unique with plenty to offer, whether its beach-side or countryside, self-catering holidays or holiday home ownership, entertainment in our bars and restaurants or a relaxing swim in our pools. We are passionate about our customers and work hard to ensure they have the best possible experience at our parks. Verdant Parks is an equal opportunities employer and a proud member of the Disability Confident scheme.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.