Room Attendant

Gidleigh Park - Housekeeping; Highweek; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site staff accommodation

Free meals on duty

Service charge shared

Staff discounts across hotels

Development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Job summary

Gidleigh Park in Devon is hiring a Housekeeping Assistant to keep all guest bedrooms and public areas gleaming, ready to welcome our wonderful guests. You’ll be part of a dedicated team in a 24-bedroom luxury hotel on the edge of Dartmoor, with opportunities to learn and develop.

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

Qualifications

• No experience required; personality and attitude matter.
• COSHH training is important and will be provided.
• Flexibility with rotas and teamwork across departments.

Responsibilities

• Clean guest bedrooms and front-of-house areas to a high standard.
• Maintain cleanliness and presentation to welcome guests.
• Support other departments as needed to ensure smooth operations.

Skills

Personality & attitude

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 andjoin our team as a Housekeeping Assistant and let your passion andpersonality shine

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

As a HousekeepingAssistant you will keep all front of house areas and guest bedrooms gleaming,ready to welcome our wonderful guests.

We welcomeapplications from candidates with no experience, as this role is all aboutpersonality and attitude, we can teach you the rest.

Check out some of the key pointsabout the role:

• From cleaning rooms, to cleaning the lounge, you’ll play a massive part in making our beautiful hotel look and feel welcoming.


• We want you to be safe, it’s important to keep up to date on all COSHH training.


• We are oneteam, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other acrossdepartments.

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 afamily 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 is fundamentalto everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believeeveryone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to ourteam 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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