Spa Therapist - FTC

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious hotel in Glasgow is seeking a Full Time Spa Therapist to provide exceptional service and create meaningful guest interactions. Candidates should have prior experience in a Spa and a warm personality. The role offers competitive pay of £14.60 per hour, training opportunities, and various employee benefits including generous holiday and wellbeing support.

Benefits

£14.60 per hour

28 days holiday increasing to 33 days

Paid overtime

Employee discounts

Extensive training

Qualifications

• Availability to work 5 shifts per week.
• Previous experience as a Spa Therapist.
• Desirable experience with Ishga and Oskia products.
• Drive to create personal guest experiences.
• Commitment to service excellence.

Responsibilities

• Ensure guests are welcomed in a 5-star manner.
• Promote and upsell treatments and products.

Skills

Experience in a Hotel Spa

Ability to promote products

Warm personality

Can-do attitude

Job description

We are looking for an authentic and driven Full Time Spa Therapist to join us at Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa on a 15-month Maternity Cover Fixed Term Contract and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections!

The Spa at Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa is a Scottish escape for guests and visitors alike, we provide a multi-sensory experience with focus on relaxation and self-care. Our recent refurbishment has improved on our sustainable offering by introducing new elements such as our brand-new Snow Bliss shower and improving upon our current offerings such as our well-loved Pool and Sauna. We are looking for team members who can showcase what we offer, create sophisticated and transformative experiences whilst ensuring embracing sustainability and natural elements.

By joining The Spa at Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel as a Spa Therapist, you can expect 40 hours per week over 5 days supporting your work/life balance! In addition to this, you will receive gratuities; excellent training and development opportunities (such as Ishga, Oskia or a hot stone qualification); family and friends spa discount and complimentary use of the Spa quarterly.

As a Spa Therapist, we will support you to:

• Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

What do you need to be a Spa Therapist? Well, your main duties and responsibilities will be…

• Guest interactions: you will ensure all guests are welcomed to the Spa in a 5* manner, educate guests on our offerings and discuss all options with them.
• Promoting our products: you will promote and up-sell our treatments and large range of products available, recommending products based on your knowledge gained through your interaction with the guest.

So, we are looking for someone who has…

• Availability to work 5 shifts per week (40 hours contract)
• Previous experience as a Spa Therapist within either a destination Spa or within a Hotel Spa.
• Ishga and Oskia training will be provided, but previous experience of Ishga and/or Oskia is highly desirable.
• Drive to produce results, we work together within the Kimpton family to continue to provide our guests with extremely personal experiences and human connection.
• A warm and authentic personality, with a can-do attitude and commitment to service.
• Overall, you will be willing to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests!

Joining the Kimpton family isn’t just about providing our guests with excellent service, we also have secured a spot in Fortune’s ‘100 best companies to work for’ 7 times since 2009, and it is no surprises why! We can offer you…

• Financial security - £14.60 per hour (£30,368 per annum), guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, 28 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, and this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (pro rata)
• ,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 and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perk’s portal.
• Wellbeing – generous maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders
• Hotel specific benefits – Generous discounts in our newly renovated Spa and our F&B outlets (*must be booked according to processes)!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @kimptonblythswoodsquare 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.

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

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