Visitor Experience Host - Savill Garden Visitor Centre (Casual)

The Crown Estate; Windsor; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious estate as a Visitor Experience Host at Savill Garden Visitor Centre, where you will be the face of Windsor Great Park. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage with visitors, ensuring they have a memorable experience while promoting the park's offerings. You will be responsible for providing excellent customer service, managing visitor facilities, and supporting various events. This is a fantastic chance to work in a beautiful environment and contribute to the legacy of a historic estate, making every visitor's experience enjoyable and enriching.

Benefits

Historic Environment

Dynamic Work Environment

Flexible Application Process

Qualifications

• Proven customer service experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively and engage with a diverse audience.

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional customer service and welcome visitors warmly.
• Ensure visitor facilities are inviting, safe, and well-maintained.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Flexibility

Team Player

IT Skills

First Aid

Education

DBS Checked

First Aid Training

Job description

Advert close date: 22nd May 2025

Join The Crown Estate Team as a Casual Visitor Experience Host – Savill Garden Visitor Centre - Windsor Great Park!

The Crown Estate is an independent, commercial business with a purpose to create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation. We manage a diverse portfolio worth over £14 billion, including land and seabed across England, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Windsor Great Park is the only Royal Park and forest managed by The Crown Estate, covering approximately 6,400 hectares (15,800 acres) and includes Windsor Great Park, the Home Park of Windsor Castle, Swinley Forest, and our Visitor Centre at The Savill Garden.

As a Visitor Experience Host at the Savill Garden Visitor Centre, you will act as an ambassador for Windsor Great Park, providing exceptional customer service, welcoming and connecting with visitors to ensure they get the most out of their visit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Customer Service: Offer an engaging and friendly welcome to visitors.
• Visitor Facilities: Ensure visitor facilities are inviting and safe, including tasks such as reporting building issues, touch-up cleaning, litter picking, checking toilets, and emptying bins.
• Information Sharing: Provide visitors with accurate information about Windsor Great Park and share your knowledge to enhance their visit.
• Sales Promotion: Promote the Savill Garden and encourage visitors to buy tickets. Promote membership offerings, communicating the benefits and value of the scheme.
• Transaction Processing: Process transactions on the tills efficiently and professionally.
• Stock Management: Support the team to ensure stock is available, well-displayed, and available for purchase. Maintain stock knowledge to offer advice to customers and maximize sales opportunities.
• Group Visitors: Welcome group visitors, boarding coaches to provide information and answer questions.
• Catering Liaison: Liaise with the catering team to ensure visitors have a good catering experience and resolve customer issues as required.
• Customer Feedback: Respond to and deal with customer complaints, seeking support and referring on where necessary.
• Safety Compliance: Conduct all duties in a professional and safe manner, completing health and safety checklists in line with Crown Estate policies and procedures.
• Emergency Procedures: Help ensure the Visitor Centre is safely and calmly evacuated in an emergency.
• First Aid: Administer first aid when necessary.
• Operational Support: Contribute to improvements in customer service, membership, retail, and catering sales or visitor operations in general. Proactively manage queues for visitor facilities, including general building access, catering, and retail queues.
• Event Support: Assist with additional duties to support events and special promotions.

Requirements:

• Enthusiasm: Passionate about Windsor Great Park with an interest in its history and offerings.
• Customer Orientation: Highly customer-oriented with the ability to exercise tact and diplomacy.
• Communication Skills: Good communicator, confident, friendly, approachable, and able to engage with a wide variety of people.
• Calm and Assertive: Ability to remain calm and assertive in various situations.
• Flexibility: Willingness to have a flexible and versatile approach to provide support wherever and whenever needed.
• First Aid: First Aid trained to the required level (training will be provided).
• Team Player: Ability to work well within a team.
• IT Skills: Basic IT skills.
• Customer Service Experience: Proven track record in an environment where the customer comes first is essential.
• Problem-Solving: Proven experience of dealing with the public positively to resolve concerns.
• Admissions Experience: Previous involvement in an admissions/ticket selling role is desirable, but full training will be given.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a historic and prestigious estate.
• Contribute to creating lasting and shared prosperity for the nation.
• Enjoy working in a beautiful and dynamic environment.

Qualifications:

• DBS checked
• Training in First Aid (training will be provided)

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a historic and prestigious estate.
• Contribute to creating lasting and shared prosperity for the nation.
• Enjoy working in a beautiful and dynamic environment.

Please note – due to the nature of the Adventure Play Host position, this role will be subject to a range of safeguarding checks to assess your suitability for a role that will be working with children, families and vulnerable groups which can include a criminal record check. Proof of ID and address must be provided at interview.

At Windsor Great Park we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. All employees are expected to share this commitment.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluation of information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with all vulnerable groups, this includes a range of safeguarding checks including a criminal record check process.

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us at [e-mail].