Starbucks Barista

Village Hotels; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A hospitality provider in the UK invites applications for a barista role. As a barista, you'll deliver exceptional beverage service and create genuine connections with customers daily. No prior experience is necessary—just a passion for delighting guests. You'll enjoy a lively, modern workplace with comprehensive benefits including health memberships, discounts, and flexible hours. Join a team that prioritizes fun, professional growth, and unique training opportunities.

Benefits

Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership

Discounted overnight stays

50% discount on Food and Drink

Excellent training and development

Well-being and Healthcare benefits

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Passion for providing joy to customers.
• Ability to create handcrafted beverages.
• Willingness to learn and develop skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality service and beverages to customers.
• Build connections with customers regarding their favorite drinks.
• Work collaboratively with fellow partners in-store.

Skills

Customer service

Relationship building

Teamwork

Job description

Take your place at the heart of our community. At Starbucks, where your voice matters and your passion for customer service is brewed into everything we do. We’ve got an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a barista.

Being at the forefront of our community, you’ll get involved in creating our Starbucks experience by providing our customers with high quality service, beverages and products, whilst creating our third place environment. We want you to be your true authentic self at work and that’s why you’ll also have access to our partner networks, because here you belong.

You don’t need previous experience to join our team as a barista, all we ask is you bring a passion for bringing joy to our customers. Working in a Starbucks store is different from any other job. You’re creating genuine moments of connection with our customers and making a difference to their day, through creating handcrafted delicious beverages and building relationships with our customers (getting to know their favourite drink), and with your fellow partners in store. The best part about this role is that no two days are ever the same!

Does this sound like you?

Work, Grow, Play! Here at Village Hotel Club we are all about embracing personality, individualism and fun. Forget stuffy hotels built around formality, pomp and ceremony. We create lively, modern spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, play and exercise. With hotels and leisure clubs Aberdeen to Bournemouth and more opening soon, we rely on you to deliver service that puts us head and shoulders above the competition.

Benefits

• Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership at your home Club for you and a family member/ friend worth £1,500 a year.
• Discount on all overnight stays at Village Hotels, meaning you can experience our hospitality from £35 with a friend and even grab an excellent breakfast.
• Friends and Family discounted stays from £49 including breakfast
• 50% discount on Food and Drink purchased on or off shift at any Village Hotel Pub & Grill
• 30% discount on and off shift in our Village Hotel Starbucks stores
• Excellent training and development including our Rising Stars and Talent Academy programmes
• A much more exciting way to train across several areas in the hotels, utilising our exciting Mobile Gaming training platform.
• Discounts and cashback offers on many High Street Brands and Supermarkets.
• A range of Well-being and Healthcare benefits and monthly well-being programmes for all employees to support your mental health
• Putting your Mental Wellbeing first with Mental Health first aiders and up to 2 mental health days to utilise annually.
• Financial wellbeing support and salary drawdown via Wagestream
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering support and counselling
• Flexible working hours
• A fun, supportive and inclusive work environment with regular team events
• Excellent Reward and Recognition Incentive schemes
• Anniversary rewards for key milestones of service
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Have your birthday off guaranteed
• Discounted Health Cash plan and Sick pay Insurance.
• A host of BIG People Days to celebrate, reward and recognise our wonderful employees and their local communities.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay
• Company Pension scheme
• Life Insurance
• T&C applies based on your contract

We are passionate about delivering exceptional hospitality. We are obsessed with making our guests welcome and look for opportunities to exceed expectations with a product that delivers everything under one roof.

Join the team that Work, Grow & Play the Village Way!